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Denver, CO, US

Neubiberg, München, DE

Durham, North Carolina, US

Centennial, Colorado, US

Centennial, Colorado, US

Centennial, Colorado, US

• In this role I functioned as the engineering expertise within our growing eCommerce division focused on tuning the website for an effective engineering experience and creating content to enable engineers in the.
• Built out a fully functioning rapid prototyping lab for the creation of reference designs and whatever we could dream up
• Produced 40+ articles and 20+ videos with the most successful being shared widely across the engineering community on the topic of capacitor failures stemming from incomplete electrolyte formulas
• Created numerous models for our Maker Faire 2016 booth and helped run things at the event while conducting interviews with other makers who were creating awesome things

Centennial, Colorado, US

• Acted as a technical asset to the entire company consulting on projects globally to help keep the engineer as the focus persona and to make sure we won there.
• Guided technical calls with content creation teams weekly
• Consulted on engagements with the Indy Racing League resulting in completed designs for steer-by-wire, software defined radios, and heads up displays for pit crews
• Significant amount of time spent researching the cutting edge of engineering to properly guide our content and supplier strategies

Centennial, Colorado, US

• Acted as the final tier of support for our 250 Field Application Engineers helping them solve customer problems that may be outside of their scope of expertise or require too many man-hours.
• Successfully created and patented an extreme low-cost airflow sensor based on the venturi effect and utilizing only three materials. Designed for the price conscious electronic cigarette market and medical inhalers.
• Presented on the future of MOSFET technology covering gallium nitride and silicon carbide to an executive team from one of our suppliers resulting in the winning of $70M of business with a large consumer electronics.
• Lead the technical aspect of an executive team looking at the market viability for battery distribution for consumer electronics. Analysis of existing technologies and companies.

Centennial, Colorado, US

Working with customers to help develop their ideas into products across a wide variety of both analog and digital components. Taking needed specifications and determining best in class solutions to enable the customer. Developing block diagrams and white papers on various technologies, most recently micro-inverters and SmartGrid.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Supporting an air quality group in the Atmospheric College. Maintaining a variety of lab/test equipment and all of the computers within the group. Providing recommendations on new equipment and upgrades to existing equipment.

Verifying subcontractor drawings for a power plant scrubber retrofit. Spent quite a bit of time on optimizing a cable drawing access database to allow for automatic conduit routing in large systems which has saved many hours of work and backchecking that use to be needed.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

Designed control and safety systems for large scale robotic welding implementations using AutoCAD EE. Software programming for robot movement in RAPID language. Some basic interface design using LabView. This job has shown me the differences between a university job where I had only some interaction with end users and a corporate one where I was dealing.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Repairing and maintaining a 100+ computer network. This job gave me the opportunity to work in both Windows and Linux environments. I was also afforded the opportunity to work with a small group of other technicians on larger projects which required management of a group and constant communication to move projects forward.

Me, Systems Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering