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Salisbury, North Carolina, United States

Indian Trail, North Carolina, United States

• Conducted risk assessments and developed mitigation strategies to proactively address potential project setbacks.• Spearheaded the successful planning, execution, and delivery of R&D projects, ensuring alignment with project scope, timeline, and budget constraints.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineers, technicians, and stakeholders, to define project objectives, requirements, and milestones for precision metrology solutions within the aerospace and defense… Show more • Conducted risk assessments and developed mitigation strategies to proactively address potential project setbacks.• Spearheaded the successful planning, execution, and delivery of R&D projects, ensuring alignment with project scope, timeline, and budget constraints.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineers, technicians, and stakeholders, to define project objectives, requirements, and milestones for precision metrology solutions within the aerospace and defense sectors. Show less

Indian Trail, North Carolina, United States

• Managed design, integration, and deployment of OEM laser alignment products; working with customers to cultivate Statements of Work (SOW), Factory and Site Acceptance criteria (FAT/SAT) and insure timely delivery of solutions.• Developed core libraries to standardize laser alignment and metrology divisions of organization with core focuses in areas of feature expansion, testability, and user experience.• Led software design for next generation of laser alignment products, improving… Show more • Managed design, integration, and deployment of OEM laser alignment products; working with customers to cultivate Statements of Work (SOW), Factory and Site Acceptance criteria (FAT/SAT) and insure timely delivery of solutions.• Developed core libraries to standardize laser alignment and metrology divisions of organization with core focuses in areas of feature expansion, testability, and user experience.• Led software design for next generation of laser alignment products, improving image acquisition and processing performance, application reliability, and laser control process repeatability.• Reduced system costs by removing dependencies on paid third-party vendor software packages. Show less

Salisbury, North Carolina

• Developed application framework improving runtime stability, overall performance, and reducing development time for initial Human Machine Interface (HMI) creation down to 2 days.• Leveraged expertise in object-oriented programming to design architecture for all standard company libraries and software utilities interfacing between cameras, inspections, industrial controls, databases, communications, and core HMI.• Led department of 10 application engineers in code-reviews, debugging… Show more • Developed application framework improving runtime stability, overall performance, and reducing development time for initial Human Machine Interface (HMI) creation down to 2 days.• Leveraged expertise in object-oriented programming to design architecture for all standard company libraries and software utilities interfacing between cameras, inspections, industrial controls, databases, communications, and core HMI.• Led department of 10 application engineers in code-reviews, debugging, and implementing design changes and bug fixes within existing common codebase. Show less

Salisbury, North Carolina

• Created inspection applications in C# gaining exposure to numerous industrial camera technologies including line and area scan imagers, Bayer and 3-chip color sensors, hyperspectral imaging, 3D imaging.• Assisted sales teams with project feasibility related to new technologies and verified performance capabilities of proposed solutions.• Formulated functional specification documents, system operation manuals, training procedures, and developed customer relations leading to repeat… Show more • Created inspection applications in C# gaining exposure to numerous industrial camera technologies including line and area scan imagers, Bayer and 3-chip color sensors, hyperspectral imaging, 3D imaging.• Assisted sales teams with project feasibility related to new technologies and verified performance capabilities of proposed solutions.• Formulated functional specification documents, system operation manuals, training procedures, and developed customer relations leading to repeat sales opportunities. Show less

Salisbury, Nc

• Serviced and installed world class machine vision systems within manufacturing plants across the globe for industries including Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Plastic Molding, Aerospace and Defense, etc.• Evaluated optics and lighting for a variety of custom integration applications including new greenfield projects as well as legacy retrofits.• Developed machine vision programs using Cognex In-Sight smart camera platform.

Charlotte, Nc

• Collaborated with electrical and computer engineering graduate students as mechanical engineer support.• Projects included public outreach robots used for marketing by the William States Lee College of Engineering and a humanoid-type robot used for research in biomechanics control systems.• Utilized SolidWorks and PTC Creo for 3D solid modeling, procured components and materials, fabricated parts through rapid prototyping and machining processes, performed troubleshooting of system… Show more • Collaborated with electrical and computer engineering graduate students as mechanical engineer support.• Projects included public outreach robots used for marketing by the William States Lee College of Engineering and a humanoid-type robot used for research in biomechanics control systems.• Utilized SolidWorks and PTC Creo for 3D solid modeling, procured components and materials, fabricated parts through rapid prototyping and machining processes, performed troubleshooting of system mechanics, and assisted in control system software development. Show less

Charlotte, Nc

• Implemented design changes on a robot capable of autonomous motion and waste categorization of recyclable materials.• Improved performance of turning dynamics through locomotion mechanism redesign and 16% weight reduction.• Designed sorting mechanism used to separate trash from recyclable material.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Business Administration And Management