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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Stockholm, Se

- Modeled the cost of a painted airbag cover using R/Excel and a multivariate linear regression to improve the accuracy of quotes for new business - Negotiated with 3rd party vendors to reduce costs by finding opportunities to combine installation services across multiple projects or eliminate duplicate work - Seized the opportunity of the COVID-19 shutdown to experiment with paint transfer efficiency resulting in a 50% reduction of raw material consumption - Quantified cost savings of the raw material reduction by discounting cash flows by the WACC through each product’s EOP (end of production) resulting in $2.0 million - Educated the Global PLA (Product Line Airbag) team on the complexities of the paint transfer efficiency improvements in a straightforward way to establish best practices - Organized deadlines, resources, and milestones of a $130,000 CAPEX for a new paint HVAC system using MS Project to simplify updating and communicating progress to management - Interfaced with 3rd party engineering firm to communicate design requirements for the HVAC system and ensured compliance through drawing review and iteration - Balanced the tooling design, robot programming, and appearance qualification needs of multiple, simultaneous product launches for Toyota, Nissan, Rivian, Ford, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, and GM vehicles - Forecasted demand outpacing the paint process capacity and outlined a plan to scale the process to achieve future capacity demands - Saved $2.9 million through the identification and implementation of 16 continuous improvement opportunities - Mentored 5 interns and 2 newly employed paint process engineers - Troubleshot daily process issues promptly to curtail scrap and downtime - Established new paint robot programming standards by collaborating with Sherwin-Williams at their technical center in Warrensville, Ohio

Stockholm, Se

- Benchmarked paint lines at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada facilities and the BMW Spartanburg Plant to identify and prioritize a potential paint process improvement of maximum impact - Justified $500,000 CAPEX improvement to global level management by demonstrating an estimated payback period of less than a year - Coordinated efforts across multiple departments and 3rd party vendors to ensure preparations for the new equipment were completed within a short period of 58 days set by global management and on a process that ran continuously - Reported weekly to plant management on project measurables such as lead times, delays, budget, and build-ahead inventory for the required shutdown - Directed the work of plumbers, vendors, integrators, electricians, automation engineers, and production to support the installation and integration of 3, paint delivery systems in 2, 7-day shutdown periods with strict deadlines to prevent costly missed or late deliveries to automotive OEMs

Stockholm, Se

- Analyzed and investigated the paint delivery system for inconsistencies between manufacturers’ recommendations and the current operation of the equipment - Applied principles of engineering and fluid mechanics to establish connections between issues with the process and improper operation of equipment - Trialed modifications to the paint delivery system to validate the expected improvement in the process - Communicated findings and results to plant management in Action Plan Review presentations

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

- Established Maximum Allowable Operating Pressures (MAOP) of above ground natural gas facilities by examination of drawings, tests, and purchase orders - Documented MAOP’s through completion of spreadsheets and drawings linked to valid historical records - Formulated Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) from onsite surveys - Diagnosed a unique issue that caused air coolers at a compressor station to malfunction and provided modifications to prevent further failures - Presented progress and possible improvements for the MAOP verification project to upper management and the CEO of the company

- Designed an experiment to examine the vibrational modes of a thin walled, inflatable, elastic sphere and its cavity after impact with the surface of water - Built an apparatus to drop a sphere at variable heights into a tank while filming the collision with high speed cameras - Collected high speed imagery data as well as still images of interesting fluid phenomena - Assisted other lab members with the design, analysis, and data collection of their projects - Interpreted raw data into meaningful results for use in attenuating back pain of marines riding in inflatable boats on rough seas

Stockholm, Se

- Developed a (C++) simulation of AOA’s paint delivery system from scratch that solved for flow rates and pressures at various points in the network to trial different pipeline sizes, supply pressures and paint viscosities - Calculated the amount of heat transfer exchanged between paint pipelines and ambient air to determine if a significant change in viscosity could be expected - Authored multiple reports on paint delivery, viscosity, and paint atomization that described how the process of painting airbag covers could be improved - Presented findings on multiple occasions to the plant manager, plant quality manager, and the quality supervisors of other departments.

- Researched turbulent swirl decay in pipes through computational fluid dynamics and literature review - Prepared paper to be printed in the American Water Works Association Journal - Assisted engineers in the calibration of orifice, venturi, and turbine flowmeters - Recorded flow velocity, swirl intensity, and swirl angle data from a scale pump station and spillway using instrumentation, Microsoft Excel, and NI Labview - Modeled a dam to be fabricated out of plastic for scale model testing and vaned grating to be placed on pump inlets utilizing 3D Computer Aided Design - Designed an energy dissipation valve so that an expensive prebuilt valve did not have to be purchased saving the lab close to $10,000

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering With An Aerospace Emphasis, Minors In Computer Science And Mathematics

High School, College Preparation