•Worked on team to research and approve various emerging ecotechnologies•Participated in coordination meetings internally and with contractors•Drafted Statements of Work and Bid Selection Criteria documents•Used MS Excel and Visual Basic to assist in the quality verification of large amounts of vehicle data•Assisted engineering team in general project management tasks (such as keeping meeting minutes and reviewing technical documents from project inception to closeout as a member of Ecotechnology for Vehicles program

•Worked in a team to design and test next generation of Canadian light armor reconnaissance vehicles•Designed and reviewed technical documents submitted by contractors•Oversaw and helped design specific tests to ensure all components on vehicle met Canadian military standards and would function correctly in the real world•Worked with sub-contractors to ensure military needs were being met and reviewed files submitted by those contractors (CAD files, software packages etc.)•Gained experience working with NX 10 CAD software to be able to quickly review or improve CAD submissions. •Experienced firsthand the subtleties of working with contractors from the perspective of being the client (tracked deliverables and facilitated communication between parties)

•Led R&D project involving generating renewable energy from wave motion on Coast Guard Buoys •Created Solidworks models and performed finite element analysis to test integrity of Coast Guard assets•Wrote specification documents, and created engineering drawings based on instructions given from engineers