I helped design a short-tail excavator to compete with the other short-tail machines with high horsepower created by Caterpillar and John Deere. I was in charge of our operational cab and camera design. Both the harness and camera placement were based on the Komatsu large-tail machines. While designing my zones in CAD, I studied those two machines and their various options and I referenced them in my designs. While designing, I had to hold meetings with many different departments within Komatsu to make sure my designs were up to date with changes that were coming from our Japan Headquarters.After my designs were approved, I would work in AutoCAD Electrical to design the electrical schematic, the layout drawing, and diagrams for the electrical harnesses. I used different files to precheck the size of the conduit as well as checking each wire to make sure they reached the correct connector. Once completed, the drawings were sent to our Japanese manufacturing plant for creation of the prototype.

I used drawings to construct various projects from different types of steel and weld them together using a MIG Welding machine. Through different projects I learned how to flat welt, butt weld, fillet weld, weave and test weld quality.