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Denver, CO, US

Worcester, MA, US

• Developed manufacturing processes for customers producing components such as ring laser gyroscopes, BE-4 nozzles, valves and LOX mixers, turbine blades, castings, and semiconductor wafers
• Designed, led, and executed system and production level field tests to integrate and test both mature and developmental abrasive components with detailed documentation for the project stakeholders
• Served as the SME and technical liaison between Customers, Suppliers, Sales, OEMs, R&D, and Product Management in developing products, integration, troubleshooting, and testing
• Conducted trade studies and designed abrasive components to meet customer needs and systemrequirements in the industrial, aerospace, DoD, and electro-optical industries
• Achieved $3.6M in new business won while demonstrating $5.3M in overall cost savings for 62 customers

Northborough, Massachusetts, US

• Developed Omniseal® sealing and friction control solutions utilizing polymers, ceramics, composites, coatings, CMCs, MMCs, and metals for use in aerospace applications
• Designed a high temperature dynamic test bed with accompanying hardware to evaluateceramic aerospace turbomachinery bushings under thermal, radial, and moment loads
• Led a project to correlate surface topography and hydrodynamic film development which culminated in a patent pending product currently achieving $3.5M in annual sales

Northborough, Massachusetts, US

• Designed and executed test plans for material, process, and component development and V&Vunder a variety of temperatures, loads, orientations, and dynamic conditions
• Performed root cause analysis of failed components utilizing SEM, EDS, TGA, and DMA
• Coordinated stage gate projects involving cross-functional business units within Saint-Gobain
• Studied stick-slip phenomenon as it relates to rheology, tribology, and polymer science
• Managed a summer intern as a direct report and supervised them through two projects

Solon, OH, US

• Designed application specific forming tools to fabricate parts used in customer trials
• Developed calculators to predict behavior of spring energized bearings

Solon, OH, US

• Designed experiments for comparative vibration and efficiency testing of electric motors
• Retrofitted electric motors with a new material in effort to form a new market segment
• Developed a scrapless manufacturing method for full scale production of a new material

University Park, PA, US

• Leveraged machine learning to automate better design for additive manufacturing
• Developed a MATLAB code to extract, organize, and voxelize files within a diverse database
• Evaluated designs for 3D printing attributes and performed linear regression analysis

University Park, PA, US

• Assisted professors in teaching team based problem solving using the design process
• Assisted in teaching student’s CAD modeling with SolidWorks as well as 3D printing
• Oversaw the machine shop and aided students in building physical prototypes

Solon, OH, US

• Led the design of a microcontroller mounting system for mountain bike suspension application
• Led a market analysis of automotive suspension systems to develop a new market segment
• Tested automotive strut bearings under various loads, temperatures, and frequencies
• Used confocal microscopes to measure surface roughness to analyze PTFE transfer

Master Of Science, Space Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering