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Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

Research Engineer with a focus on developing innovative solutions to reduce costs and decrease product variability in the bioenergy feedstock supply chain.

Provo, Utah

Responsible for the design and manufacturing of an industrial air quality sensing system. Led design and development team to complete and perform demonstrations of prototype systems for a range of potential applications.Become adept with utilizing additive manufacturing techniques for developing prototype sensing systems.Handled day to day operations for start up with responsibilities ranging from product development to interviewing new hires to managing cash flow.

Broken Arrow, Ok

Responsible for preparing design packages for flare systems of all sizes ($.5M -$15M). Also responsible for all of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) relating to industrial Flare systems. Responsible for preparing and carrying out simulations showing flare system performance. Examples of possible simulations include: Flow analysis in and around flare systems, Dispersion analysis, Hot Plume analysis, Radiation/Temperature simulations, Combustion performance efficiency, etc.

Broken Arrow, Ok

Served as a potential customers first contact with Zeeco. When a customer had a request for proposal for Zeeco product, I was assigned that request. I was responsible for preparing a detailed proposal for supplying Zeeco product to the customer that fulfilled the customer's needs. I was responsible for serving as the representative of Zeeco to the customer and was responsible to sell and negotiate deals with the customer.

Carried out planned combustion testing of process burners to guarantee that Zeeco product meets the customers performance & safety requirements. Some of these requirements that were measured included: Emissions (NOx), Flame stability and height, Furnace Temperature, Excess Oxygen, among others. Data was collected and compiled into test reports to be given to the customer. Customers regularly were hosted at our Test Facility to witness these tests.

Rexburg, Id

• Communicated with clients to develop computer models and solve real life problems.• Used Solidworks to develop designs for small to large scale projects.• Used Ansys Workbench to develop models and meshes for Fluent CFD simulations

• Designed and built a unit for a small test bio-reactor for the Biological Engineering Department• Assembled the reactor, wired and plumbed the system for water and nitrogen• Tested pieces of the reactor to ensure that they were working properly

Idaho Falls, Idaho

• Performed experiments on Biomass using many different types of machinery.• Did analysis of the experimental data to better understand and improve the process of creating usable energy biomass.

Idaho Falls, Id

• Worked to develop a logistical model for the Biomass energy market using PowerSim.• Developed an Excel Spreadsheet used to assist in the cost analysis of the different parts of the PowerSim logistical model.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Automotive Engineers, President Intramural Sports, Football & BasketballDesigned and built.

Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Department of Biological Engineering Graduate Research Program

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering