Zachary Shepard Email & Phone Number

San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Auburn, Indiana

Auburn, Indiana

-Assisted Facilities Engineer with multi-million-dollar capital improvement projects for the company's seven facilities (5 iron foundries, 1 aluminum foundry, 1 machine shop). -Worked hand in hand with our environmental and automation engineers, controls group, and contractors to correctly budget and perform all the necessary engineering needed for the job. -Traveled to job sites and helped manage projects. Utilized AutoCAD to create layout drawings for contractors.

Auburn, In

-Helped unify the grinding equipment in the foundry by designing and building new adjustable and modifiable grinding rests.-Collected and tracked pouring metrics of our iron to help reduce wasted material and costs.-Designed and improved patterns, used to form the sand molds, to help obtain better yields and decrease labor intensity upon processing the parts.-Worked on a multitude of projects to increase the efficiency and safety of different operations and machines across all of the departments of the foundry.

Angola, In

-Increased safety within the workplace by designing more efficient and less labor intensive processing methods.-Utilized SolidWorks to design new equipment, create plant layouts, and reverse engineer parts for quoting purposes. -Helped design and install a new vertical copper up-caster, where I was able to supply engineering knowledge and use my welding skills to assist maintenance in building and assembling the system. -Collaborated with mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers along with hourly employees and maintenance on a daily basis.

Mechanical Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Football; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Phi Epsilon; Pi Tau Sigma; Materials Advantage Society

Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Track and Field, Mens Bible Study

High School Honors Diploma