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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Designed, assembled, and tested an interface-able test fixture replicating the inputs of a robotic surgical system, allowing for full articulation, motor-powered firing, and positional lockout of a surgical stapling device to support reverse engineering efforts and test procedure development, utilizing DFMA and tight tolerance design skills• Designed, assembled, and tested a test fixture and created a test procedure to collect deflection data of a critical surgical stapler component during operation, resulting in the ability to inform surgeons of quantifiable best use practices and procedures to improve staple line formation and patient outcomes, utilizing Arduino and MATLAB programming skills• Designed, assembled, and tested several tensile test mounting fixtures, allowing for regulated medical device tensile testing to be conducted on products of complex geometries, utilizing strong tight tolerance design and DFMA skills• Designed, assembled, and tested an air leakage test fixture, allowing for adherence to regulated testing of air leakage and pressure difference across a critical valve within a trocar device to be done in-house• Created several technical component drawings supporting the design and manufacturing of a new surgical device

Wright Patterson Afb, Dayton, Ohio, United States

Contract work for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate• Designed, prototyped, and fabricated several custom parts and mounts for various material imaging, wear testing, and surface finishing rigs and test fixtures, allowing for significant reduction in test and run times• Designed, assembled, and tested devices for preparing test specimens for high speed and temperature surface wear testing, greatly reducing test preparation and run time• Modeled various high-speed bearing and surface wear testing devices to examine component clearances under full testing range of motion, deflection, and thermal expansion, designing testing device enclosures as informed by findings• Operated high-powered imaging tools such as microscopes, surface scanners, and profilometers and helped to develop procedures for quickly imaging samples after testing, allowing for considerable reductions in test sample analysis time• Collection and visualization of high-speed bearing load, vibration, and run time testing sensor data

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Buckeye BikeHub @ The Ohio State University• Collaborated closely with team and customers to analyze bike issues, determine a solution, and work to solve the problem in a timely manner to ensure a quick turnaround for customers• Used various tools, problem identification and solving, and teamwork to quickly repair customer bikes• Handled customer payments and front desk operations to ensure a positive customer experience• Communicated thoroughly with customers and team about the repair process and educated customers about bike maintenance when possible • Worked entirety of fall and spring semesters while balancing full academic course load