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California, United States

Sunnyvale, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

• Coordinated with chief engineer to process purchase orders and oversee team progress and timeline
• Ensured team competition readiness: registration, submission of materials, travel, and recruitment
• Oversaw fundraising efforts, company relations, and sponsorship opportunities (Raytheon), and budget
• Drafted/finalized technical writing for university research funding proposal

Irvine, California, United States

• Utilized SolidWorks to conduct FEA of lateral links to understand design weaknesses for improvement
• Prepared technical drawings via Solidworks to assemble jigs for welding, machining, and water jetting

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Worked under the Integration, Dimensional, and Craftsmanship department, specifically in the energy storage integration teamResponsibilities
• Managed prototype development of next-generation energy storage products
• Defined project requirements and facilitated meetings across different departments to ensure the design complies with government and OSHA regulations
• Oversaw assembly-level design across multiple engineering disciplines involving thermal team, high-voltage team, low-voltage component team, enclosure design team, and battery team
• Designed and built test fixtures and toolings for NPI, Service/Maintenance, Manufacturing, and industrial teams with OTS and SLA-printed components
• Conducted benchmarking studies of competitor vehicles' designs and integration methods

San Jose, California, United States

• Designed cooling fixture with thermal simulations to retain package temperatures within ±5°C for test station
• Tested integrity of mechanical design of updated optical pump laser per client’s specifications
• Updated designs of pump lasers for optical amplification for submarine telecommunications purposes
• Rapid prototyped package handling tool to reduce risk and improve operator consistency and efficiency

San Ramon, California, United States

• Facilitated the development of ultrasound sensor prototypes to detect pipeline inserts more effectively
• Conducted tests, generated final reports, and drafted technical writing of ultrasound device
• Utilized Python to create a calculator to compute terminal coordinates in GPS cutting computation time by 95%
• Tested and evaluated RFID, Locusview, and mobile as-built GPS devices for pipeline surveying

Irvine, California, United States

• Modeled complexity of wildfire behaviors through software computing(Python and ArcGIS) to understand engineering solutions in terms of fluid dynamics, landscaping, and more
• Collected and organized data from past decades with Python programming
• Performed statistical analysis and interpreted results to create models of past events to better our preparations for future wildfires

Hayward, California, United States

• Learned what goes on behind the scenes in retail stores
• Participated in-store safety meetings
• Unloaded and organized merchandise, applied security tags, prepared for special holidays and other themed events, provided quality checks on merchandise, prepared merchandise for shipment

Oakland, California

• Shadowed service designers, urban planners, facility managers, department heads to gain a deeper understanding of the responsibilities of technology and engineering positions
• Participated in on-site safety training and PG&E safety tailboards
• Attended professional development workshops at Cypress Mandela Training Center to learn about hands-on jobs and certification programs that are available

Oakland, California

• Learned about environmental issues through community and school workshops and exercises
• Assisted in trash clean-up, park restoration, and conducted tests on the health ofmarine species and the quality of water to determine human impact on local watershed

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering Student Council • Chinese Association

Education record

Activities and Societies: Baseball(2014-2015), Cross Country(2015-2018), Track and Field(2015-2018), Interact(2014-2018)