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Folsom, Ca, Us

Fremont, California, United States

Made fixtures using Solidworks and Fusion 360 to properly disposition busbars. Made fixture for busbar denttesting for scrap reduction of $0.17 per carpart or $100k/ year. Made second fixture to reduce $0.07 per carpartor $28,000 in press scrap.• Conducted failure analysis studies, leading to trials and dispositioning, improving quality of manufacturing.• Used statistical quality control methods, Database management software like DBeaver, Tableau and Excel toanalyze large and small datasets to assist with troubleshooting, root causing, failure analysis and NPI. UsedTableau to create trackers for new product development dashboards.• Worked on making quality and material test plans for upcoming projects and made SOPs, instructions andaudits for the same. Conducted studies with collected data to create specs for future production.• Coordinated trials with Process, Controls and Maintenance engineering teams for NPI, FI and Root Causing.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

Acted as Member of the Chair of the BOD for Associated Students Inc., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Represented the College of Engineering and took part in legislation and decisions that impacted all Calpoly students, from housing to campus fees.

Austin, Texas, United States

->Full-time intern for Fall 2023 working in the Materials Lab to support Quality Engineering for Model Y -> Supported manufacturing operations by performing failure analysis, materials testing, FAI, Characterization, Lab work as well as use of ISO, ASTM standards to conform to world class testing norms.-> Made SOPs and performed process validation for new testing methods.-> Worked with cross functional teams to help plan and implement design changes to brand new materials Lab, coordinating equipment disassembly, moving and assembly + calibration.-> Performed a novel testing method for car parts, resulting in validation of new control plan test procedures as well as reducing test time from hours to few minutes per part.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

Front Desk assistant at the international center at Calpoly helping students and other affiliates as well as acting as the first point of contact for all international student issues as well as study abroad queries.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

Project Mobius is a student-run research project under Calpoly PROVE lab working on a full-scale 24-hour solar-powered glider currently in its fifth Iteration. Follows true Learn By Doing philosophy with the in-house fabrication of all components and integration of control systems.

Materials Engineering

Coursework highlights: 1. Materials Lab 1,2,3 2. Materials engineering analysis 3. Materials Thermodynamics 4. Materials Selection.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Robotics, Discover at school program for practical science