Seasonal family business that prepares and sells caramelized popcorn and flavored pork skins made in historiccast iron kettles at weekend outdoor events around the state of Illinois. Most events are set in a historical time-period and do not allow the use of electricity or other obvious modern amenities. Responsibilities include: • Site setup, staging of tents, tables, and cooking equipment for optimal layouts• Delivered many improvements in site setup and layout improving the work environment• Drove several process improvements that helped maximize revenue and provide good customer service.

Analyzed the current cricket feeding process and the inefficiencies within. Using lean principles, my team and I developed a solution to address the many inefficient sub-processes. A solution was ideated and proposed that can save the company around $40,000 a year.

• My team is devoted to design, prototype, and improve harness, headband, and circuit layout for device used on dogs.• Designing custom harness, headband, electrodes, and circuit layout for device that measures a dog’s brainwaves and speaks for the dog based on certain brainwaves.• Using AutoCAD software to designing housing for circuit boards and battery to improve overall product security and cleanliness.

• Gained experience in the themed entertainment world by assisting project managers on site of current projects. • Researched potential designs and materials for projects and reached out to corresponding vendors to optimize efficiency and cost. • Learned how each part of the shop works in unison to create a smooth system of production while ensuring quality and efficiency

• Setup and created project documents in AutoCAD for the use of 10 engineers to use for mechanical/electrical design of buildings.• Calculated ventilation schedules and designed HVAC ducts and systems to various specified code for 20 buildings.• Inspected electrical layouts to ensure they were up to code while modifying the layouts to be more efficient and logical.

In order to create a safe lunchroom automated delivery system that protects food during transport from kitchen to student, our group devised a conveyor belt-like system. Our conveyor belt system safely transports food from the cafeteria kitchen to an open and isolated distribution area. Since our conveyor belt brings the food directly to the student’s seat, the conveyor belt allows the food to be isolated from other people from the moment the food leaves the kitchen to the moment the student receives the food.