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Santa Cruz, California

Animatronic Lead at an Amusement Park. Project Manager for several system installs. Headed rehab of dark ride’s pneumatic and electronic systems.• Project Manager for My Boardwalk Photo system. Created schedules for IT, Maintenance, Marketing, Trades, and Retail departments. Coordinated and worked besides contractors. Ran stakeholder meetings throughout the project, ensuring clear communication between departments. Built a support system for the owning department. System launched successfully and on time.• Full rehab of Ghost Blasters’ gun system. Invented a mobile tester, expediting repairs and daily maintenance checks from 75 minutes to 20 minutes. Revived $15,000+ worth of equipment previously deemed scrap. Reduced conveyances being down from once a day to once a month.• Cave Train animation system overhaul. Converted the old, prone to failure controllers and air system to modern controls with updated pneumatics.

San Jose, Ca

Full shift brewer at a large production brewery. Responsible for all tasks involved in the brewing process, from ingredient selection to packaging.• Shift lead. Opening required to set up machinery for the packaging team, confirm scheduled brews,communicate status of the products and time frames to management, and setting up the productionarea so as to meet daily scheduled tasks. Closing required securing of all tanks, confirming all tasksof the day were completed, updating records, sanitation of equipment.• Created inventory management using Lean Manufacturing practices. Within the first 2 weeksreworked the physical sorting of grain, creating an intuitive tracking method. Significantly reducedtime required to pull grain for the scheduled brews.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Project Engineer for industrial low energy valves and sensors. Assistant in Lean Manufacturing integration. EHS Coordinator for the facility.• Project Manager for low energy valve development. Managed a small local team and coordinated with teams in plants across the country. Balanced a matrix organization to successfully meet schedules and pass gate reviews. Maintained customer specs, design documents and change logs. Interfaced directly with customers and vendors. Headed the design and fabrication of prototype valves forinternal and external review.• Project Engineer of high pressure sensors for medical applications. Met directly with customers toattain and negotiate specs. Worked with manufacturing partners to determine feasibility of designwithin budget.• EHS Coordinator for the facility. Continued track record of zero recordable injuries over the past 4 years. Participated in an OSHA audit of an aerospace manufacturing plant.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Design Engineer for electroactive polymer actuators. Tasks included creating new actuator designs, running characterization tests, designing test jigs and creating demo units.• Designed, tested, and saw through manufacturing for bone-conduction headphones. Installed QAsystems for manufacturing at our South Korean partner’s plant. Demonstrated and spoke to mediaoutlets about our product at E3.• Designed an array actuator that replaced the need for four separate actuators in certain applications; reduced materials cost by 50%, required 25% the QA time, made assembly and integrationsignificantly easier.• Conceptualized, designed, and built a system to test dielectric films for their potential performancecharacteristics, shrinking QA time from 30 days to 1 day.• Created a test method for non-contact measurement of actuator performance. Reduced testing time,removed additional sources of error from the operator.• Developed methods for testing temperature effects on performance.• Patented designs for vapor barrier methods with minimal reduction of actuator output. Secondarypatent granted for a handheld film stretcher, replacing the need for a large table unit or electricmachine to prestrain small samples films.

Master Of Science (Ms), Engineering Management, 3.4

Master's Degree in Engineering Management and Leadership with a Project Management focus.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Pi Tau Sigma life member (engineering honor society).B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Mechatronics.