Rafael Haro Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Michigan, US

• Full-stack developer using C# ASP.NET, angular, and Oracle/MSSQL Database.
• Redesign and expand the Shop-Click-Drive web application to four countries while increasing lead count in current markets.
• Insource third party applications to reduce spend.
• Automation developer in QTP/UFT and C# ASP.NET to decrease test time.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Increase engagement and connectivity of members and improved transition process for future board members.
• Host SAE Arizona technical speakers at monthly meetings.
• Improve social media engagement and marketing.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Increase young professional membership and engagement of Arizona Section.
• Redesign the section’s website and email to increase member engagement.
• Serve as contact between the GM Arizona Innovation Center and SAE to increase volunteer count at A World in Motion sessions at schools.

• Earned a profit of more than $3,000 by organizing a corn roaster booth at Spring Fling at the University of Arizona.
• Designed vehicle side-pods and reduced size by 8%.
• Tested gear ratios and differential to improve acceleration and traction.

Tucson, Arizona, US

• Designed and manufactured sheep femur scaffolds to facilitate bone formation in critical sized defects.
• Scaffolds were designed using MicroCT scans, Solidworks, Quickslice, built using a rapid prototyper, and mechanically tested for endurance.
• The scaffold was coated with tricalcium phosphate, and seeded with adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells to increase bonding and accelerate bone formation.

Tucson, Arizona, US

• Oversee the Summer Engineering Academy, a weekly camp where more than 25 weekly high school students came to the University of Arizona to learn about engineering.
• Fulfilled the duties of a Resident Assistant to find agreements to disputes between students.
• Organize challenging team projects for students to compete and learn about the engineering principles.
• A total of 7 weekly sessions were organized to teach about the 13 engineering disciplines offered by the university.

City Of Industry, CA, US

• Improved the grade point average of Hispanic university students by 8% in the last two years.
• Plan the logistics for the Advancement of Latinos in Engineering, where more than 200 high school students are invited to learn more about engineering.
• Inspire leadership skills in members by planning STEM events for people all ages.

Washington, DC, US

• Designed the scaffold for Plasmon Waveguide Resonance Spectroscopy subject to track the changes of rhodopsin in a flow cell to improve nausea pills for micro-gravity.
• Improved the mechanical design of flow cell to change samples faster and more efficiently.

Ithaca, NY, US

• Fabricated single crystal silicon nanobeams subjected to native oxide growth.
• Calculated the failure stress of beams using Asylum AFM, ABAQUS FEM, and Matlab.
• Restored silicon nanobeam strength using buffered oxide etch.

Tucson, Arizona, US

• Derived a fourth order differential equation for a cantilever beam with applied loading using the Euler-Bernoulli’s beam principals.
• Created a Matlab program to show the vibration and bending of the beam with respect to time; using young’s modulus, the loading along with its frequency, and dimensions.
• Presented findings at the Southwestern Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference (SUnMaRC) and wrote article to facilitate the understanding process.