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I was born and raised in Pensacola, Fl, the home of the Blue Angels and some of the best beaches in the world. I love tinkering with equipment and get a true sense of satisfaction from analyzing and successfully improving processes. I’m a firm believer that the best process improvements not only improve yield and quality, but also make it easier and safer for technicians and operators to work. After getting my BSME, I found work locally at Ascend Performance Materials, a well-established chemicals company which excels at developing specialty nylons. My time spent with APM has allowed me to gain experience in a variety of roles, each of which helped me develop a broad range of both technical and interpersonal skills.In my current role as the Process Technology Engineer for APM’s Physical Testing Lab, I serve as the SME for all testing enveloped in the lab’s scope, and ensure conformance to ISO 17025 and UL CDTP requirements. Additionally, I take responsibility in troubleshooting our testing systems and implementing or developing new test methods. Through leading training sessions, RCA’s and other opportunities for improvements, our team continually strives to make the lab better everyday and mitigate potential non-conformance’s. Since the initial accreditation as a UL CDTP lab in 2021, we have maintained our accreditation without any major non-conformance’s.Notable acheivements include:- Continual Improvement and 5S standardization of APM’s PT lab workstations.- Qualification of UL94 Flammability testing for inclusion in APM’s UL DAP program in 2021.- Design and implementation of a time-critical fiber burn through test for woven airbag fabrics.- Commenced and standardized the testing of fatigue properties of plastics according to ASTM D7791 using the lab’s newly acquired Instron E10000 dynamic test system. - Development of cradle-to-grave sample tracking sheet for long term aging projects.- Automated logging of weekly SQC sampling for the PT lab.