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Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Custom High end jewelry fabrication, sales, and repair.

Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

Modern day urban mining! Managing the pilot plant and commercializing the hydrometallurgical extraction of precious metals from end of life diesel catalytic converters.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Local automotive shop, specializing in full LS engine swaps and rebuilds. We also perform routine maintenance/repair as well as high performance custom audio solutions.

New Albany, Indiana

Vision system support engineer supporting machine vision systems and new model launches for all plants worldwide under the Samtec brand.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Value Add and Lamination engineer - project accountability led to over $0.5M in savings through yield improvement and defect reduction. Responsible for Water Repellant Coating and Assembly lines as the technical consultant leading to $350k in savings and ergonomic improvements for line operators.Developed expertise in lead-free terminals and glass soldering resulting in corporate-wide consultations.Drove soldering and assembly mass standardization projects across all AGC facilities.Led global manufacturing management sidelite team – including lamination engineering teams across all international plants.Experienced in developing relationships with many tooling/machine vendors and contractors.

Corbin, Kentucky

Designed, built, and maintained Cognex machine vision systems for quality control in a tier 1 automotive company.Implemented standard work instructions and other Kaizen and Lean projects.Interfaced with tool shops and ordered new tooling and Poke Yoke systems.Cross-functional manufacturing engineering delegate acted as a liaison between Quality, Production, and Engineering.

Johnson City, Tennessee Area

Responsible for managing and construction of prototype commercial and industrial water heaters and new product manufacturing lines with $1.3M budget.Tested prototype water heaters with PLCs and data acquisition devices for analysis.Created reports, flow diagrams and charts to help analyze production efficiency.Worked with engineering teams from the Dept. of Energy, US Army, General Electric, and other OEM manufacturers to deliver energy efficient products that must meet strict government and environmental regulations.

Gained experience with industrial plant processes for the manufacture of high-precision ball bearings and rollers.Managed lean engineering and 6 Sigma projects, resulting in $1.2M in annual savings.Assisted R&D projects in metallurgical laboratory and analyzed high carbon steel ball bearing microstructures.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Manufacturing Engineering Technology - Programming And Automation

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder and Head Instructor of UT Kung fu and Tai Chi Club National Scholars Honor Society Refounding Brother.