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Santa Clara, Ca

Hillsboro, Or

• Developed novel techniques and processes to analyze materials that customers have issues with• Performed demos of FIB microscopes to highlight technical strengths to potential customers• Drove sales by providing science and engineering insight to customer and account manager interactions• Trained users of various skill levels and disciplines on gallium and plasma FIBs to generate revenue• Guided R&D direction with real-world experience and customer feedback to improve usability of future products

Albuquerque, Nm

• Led aging study of erbium thin films and contributed to experiments on kovar material processing conditions• Managed projects and planned future experiments/collaborations involving FIB work, performed day-to-day FIB lab operations, and interfaced with other labs for supplemental analyses• Provided routine materials characterization and failure analysis reports from XPS and FIB to customers and cooperated with them to design tests to ensure products met specifications

Berkeley, Ca

• Streamline process of creating 3D tomographic reconstructions from STEM and TEM data• Develop algorithms to characterize nature of iron-nickel oxide-hydroxide nanoparticle catalyst surfaces• Analyze and calculate influence of various surface properties on catalytic activity and connect them to known electrochemical properties from previous literature to present in future publications• Prepare reports and presentations to efficiently convey information to peers and colleagues

Berkeley, Ca

• Designed new mounts and methods for in-situ tensile testing monitored in SEM to study microcrack formation• Investigated mechanical properties of silicon carbide interfaces by performing small scale micromechanical tests to isolate fracture mechanisms from different structures in the interface• Led project to investigate strength of platinum buildup using FIB additive manufacturing• Prepared samples using thin film deposition techniques in sputtering and ion beam deposition

Mol, Belgium

• Developed more efficient methods for running destructive tests and collecting data on lead-infiltrated samples• Analyzed corroded steel specimens for causes of stress corrosion cracking and liquid metal embrittlement • Studied fracture mechanisms and did failure analysis for materials selection in MYRRHA nuclear reactor with SEM and EDS analysis• Modeled behavior of dynamic strain aging to map out conditions under which it appeared

Berkeley, Ca

• Built simulated reactor environments to test corrosion in lead bismuth compounds• Characterized and catalog samples for different corrosion mechanisms using EDS

Master Of Science - Ms, Materials Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Materials Science & Engineering / Nuclear Engineering

Activities and Societies: Research, American Nuclear Society (ANS), Nuclear Engineering Design Collaborative (NEDC)