Tom Crotzer Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

-- Experienced engineer harnessing custom hardware, software to capture data, optimize systems, and visualize results-- Principal Investigator and project manager on a NASA Phase 2 SBIR building a test facility for evaluating mechanical properties of nuclear thermal propulsion materials at ultra-high temperatures in a hydrogen atmosphere -- Advancing the manufacturability of nuclear propulsion fuel in the fuel fabrication division at our Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing lab in Salt Lake City, UT

Huntsville, Alabama Area

-- Managed a 3-month, $330K membrane study for NASA from start to finish. Oversaw and coordinated all of the technical work, as well as the project staffing and spend plan. Responsible for project deliverables and payment milestones.-- Led a team of seven engineers/technicians to design, fabricate, assemble, and test a complicated experimental apparatus with hundreds of individual components including mass flow controllers, gas sensors, pumps, manifolds, chiller, system computer, and power supplies-- Increased the tensile strength of a ceramic fiber product by 124% through meticulous experimentation while also more than doubling mass production rate-- Designed and executed 100+ experiments; analyzed data using rigorous statistical methods and presented results weekly in a highly technical forum

Katy, Tx

-- Took 1st place out of 48 Koch interns in the "Challenge of Excelleron" competition-- Rallied and led a team of Koch interns in an Innovation Challenge to save an est. $300,000/yr-- Spearheaded the integration of RFID asset tracking as part of the Innovation Challenge-- Recognized and executed on an automation opportunity, saving more than $11,000/yr-- Engineered design requirements for more than $22 million of plant equipment

Provo, Utah Area

-- Designed and engineered a revolutionary new heated stadium seat cushion-- Assembled prototype that outperforms all competitors in raw heating capacity-- Analyzed market research on live sports customers to spot a gap in the market-- Led a team of 4 other co-founders; Organized roles and responsibilities for the team-- Responsible for the high-level strategy part of running this startup

Huntsville, Alabama Area

-- Responsible for refining a laser chemical vapor deposition process-- Designed and assembled a $25,000 experimental laser chemical vapor deposition system-- Brainstormed, designed, and executed experiments to characterize the effect of wavelength and laser beam profile on the deposition process-- Automated manufacturing process with Python; increased speed by 80% and reduced variation-- Designed, assembled, and tested a prototype “micro” acid gas scrubber

Los Alamos, Nm

-- Responsible for obtaining high-quality reference spectra using FTIR spectroscopy-- Created a detailed laboratory procedure to obtain reference spectral data-- Demonstrated excellent communication skills by training coworkers on the spectrometer-- Automated data collection process, saving over $1,800 and 120 man-hours