Tennyson D. Renner Ii Email & Phone Number

Develop and design practical and satisfying solutions to the photography and firearms industries, catering to end use customer and military/defense contractors alike.Projects and Accomplishments• 4.7 star average on products designed for B2B/B2C○ Principal Engineer, Pultrusion Manufacturing Startup• Responsible for bringing carbon fiber tube manufacturing process in-house • Receipt and installation of custom built pultrusion machine, only one of it's kind in western hemisphere • Design of building facilities to support process; High voltage multi phase power, HVAC, chemical handling, expansion planning, and safety compliance○ Project management• Use Asana to manage project team of up to four• Created new job roles and hired to staff new process • Coordinate and communicate with contractors, consultants, suppliers, inspectors, manufacturing partners and OEM• Maintain records of development status and experiment results• Coordinate design and manufacturing cycles with in-house machine shop○ Design• Design of carbon fiber tube layup, balancing aesthetics, mechanical performance, and machine constraints • Designed and built turnkey tooling oven, reducing tooling downtime ~200%• Redesigned OEM die tooling to reduce consumable replacement costs and changeover downtime • Redesigned several OEM components to improve process stability, surpassing what OEM was able to achieve prior to machine delivery○ Development• Designed suite of experiments to test if tubes produced in house meet/exceed tubes purchased from current supplier• Designed electromechanical means of quantifying vibrational characteristics of composite tubes and tripod assemblies• Established process for reverse engineering layup design of competitor tubes• Established process for qualifying mechanical performance of tubes

--Responsibilities--• Capabilities include Haas CNC mill, CNC plasma cutting, turning, sheet metal bending, and 3Dprinting with engineering grade plastics• 3D design, fixture design, low-volume DFM consultation, reverse engineering, machining/fabrication, rapid prototyping--Projects and Accomplishments--• Clients include Mondi International, University of Utah, and several local businesses• Designed/manufactured safety device for food-grade assembly line, eliminating repeat OSHArecordable burn injuries (Mondi)• 3D printed COVID19 PPE for various hospitals• Designed parametric rifle receiver to accommodate custom cartridge loads of varying lengthsused by ultra long range shooters (Precision Rifle Works)• Reverse engineered, improved, and machined critical obsolete part for Vietnam War eraamphibious military vehicle (Armageddon Motors)

--Responsibilities--• Ensure minimal production-downtime through both long and short-term tactical support of afleet of 130+ production platforms in and out of class 100 cleanroom• Collect, analyze, and present statistical process data to detect and mitigate equipment issuesand potential product grade deviations; provide critical feedback to upstream manufacturingprocesses• Find and resolve component level root-cause using advanced troubleshooting methodology, and proficiency in pneumatics, electro-mechanical systems, motion systems, robotics, linux,industrial control, sensor technology, and both high and low voltage systems• Create and maintain technical documentation for new or advanced procedures• Participate in preventative maintenance and continuous improvement activities--Projects & Accomplishments--• First to self-familiarize with and maintain newest generation production platforms;Instrumental in establishing best-known-methods and creation of maintenance procedures• Subject matter expert; Trained three technicians to unsupervised proficiency onaforementioned production machines• Designed and fabricated chemical exhaust component that surpassed OEM parts inpreventing breach of chemical containment in production equipment• Designed and commissioned fabrication of circuit breaker enclosures to facilitate EIPcompliance on current and all future-purchased tool-sets of specific make• Proposed and collaborated on process automation project that routed defect-heavyqualification wafers away from production tools and to disposal/rework, preventing toolcontamination and unnecessary re-qualification

College Of Engineering & Technology

•Respond to IT help tickets, outages, and emergencies•Prepare new computers for distribution to staff by deploying operating system configurations•Assist in managing hardware resource allocation and inventory•Perform basic maintenance on the CE&T website

--Responsibilities--• Become familiarized with the semiconductor manufacturing theory with a focus on CMP• Safely assist with preventative maintenance activities• Safely Troubleshoot basic production machine issues• Manage and execute internship project; Present project to other process areas--Projects & Accomplishments--• Reverse engineered chemical agitation/delivery equipment; Automated chemical fill processand added active safety redundancies, obviating history of breach-of-chemical-containmentevents due to human error• Retrofitted system of inductive sensors to I/O modules across fleet of nineteenproduction machines that, when used in conjunction with motor encoder feedback and logicexpressions, eliminated history of product recall and catastrophic failure in productionmachines

•Become familiarized with the semiconductor manufacturing theory with a focus on CMP•Safely assist with preventative maintenance activities•Safely Troubleshoot basic production machine issues•Manage and execute internship project; Present project to other process areas

•Create test cases, software usage, matrices, testing milestones and other related documents•Document reproducibility of errors and bugs during each phase of testing•Work closely with developers to find software vulnerability and testing focus•Simulate client system and reproduce system/software errors to determine vulnerabilities and strengths•Manage various VM distributions, stand alone systems, and other troubleshooting environments•Utilize various testing methodologies and develop best practice for software testing•Collaborate in adapting and implementing new technology up to production level status•Assist in software life cycle and deployment processes