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- Increased efficiency and yield of product movement at nine customer manufacturing/inventory warehouses across the USA by designing and testing the fastest, most optimal routes for obstacle avoidance. - This was executed through the use of motion planning for 49 autonomous fork lifts and five autonomous tuggers out of 145 total autonomous mobile vehicles in production. - Ensured desired result of 10 customer autonomous mobile vehicle work flows by illustrating potential movement throughout customer site, revising work load to match the ideal yield, and enabling necessary features. - Verified successful cross implementation of five customer warehouse manufacturing systems with Vecna Robotics warehouse manufacturing system by thoroughly testing the functionality and communication between the systems.

Santa Clara, California, United States

- Created a program for an Epson SCARA robot to dip 10 PCB coupons into Flux, Solder, and then Isopropyl Alcohol resulting in the elimination of a tedious manual labor process - Created programs for over 15 products on multiple automated assembly machines (Stencil Printer, Surface Mount Technology, and Selective Solder) to improve efficiency as well as repeatability of products- Improved Manufacturing Assembly Instructions for over 15 products to increase product yield - “Program Coordinator of Engineering Intern,” 2021 --- Created 9 intern projects, interviewed over 50 applicants, hired, trained, supervised, and mentored 5 automation/industry 4.0 engineering interns- “High Potential Individual,” April 2021 ---Shareholder and received more responsibilities at the Santa Clara division

Santa Cruz, California

- Researched, designed, modeled, and tested 3D strong, flexible, and life-like tensegrity robot snake prototypes- Programmed in Python using OpenCV for Picroscope (microscope using Raspberry Pis) to improve image data quality up to 4x

Santa Clara, California, United States

- Created 6 software programs for a Kawasaki “duAro” SCARA robot to apply adhesive onto PCB at a 1.5x rate- Communicated with vendors and colleagues to automate 2 manual tasks that are now implemented at 2 other divisions- “First Place Winner for 3D Printer Design Contest,” January 2020 ---Designed and implemented 3D printed chemical hose covers to help improve safety when changing chemical drums ---This design was entered into contest consisting of over 50 contestants from different TTM Technologies divisions and won a 3D printer for TTM Technologies — Santa Clara that was donated to a local elementary school

Reykjavik, Iceland

- Tracked trails, created virtual map using GIS technology, and constructed online GIS Story Map consisting of 13 trails Link: https://arcg.is/1j4ebi - Published in Reykjavik Day Hikes travel guide book consisting of travel tips and 25 trails, available on Amazon.com