Portfolio
A downloadable version can be found here.
Portfolio
A downloadable version can be found here.
Skills
- 8 years of manufacturing and assembly experience, including:
- Composites
- Machining
- Automated bonding w. cobots
- Automated Riveting w. cobots
- 3D printing
- Injection molding w. robots
- Manual assembly and bonding
- Experience with Engineering Analysis:
- Statistics:
- Process control
- Multivariable regression
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Optimization
- Design of experiments
- Vibrations analysis
- Elementary control systems design
- Electromagnetic Simulation
- Multiphysics Analysis
- EV Motor Design
- Statistics:
- Experience manufacturing in a regulated environment:
- ANSI9100
- ANSI/RIA 15.06
- Boeing specifications
- ISO 9000
- ISO/TS 15066
- Experience with MATLAB, R, and Python programming.
- Proficient in designing, assembling, and debugging tools and fixtures.
- Proficient with ANSYS Simulation Software: Structural, Modal, Maxwell, RMxprt, and Thermal Analysis.
- Proficient with CAD software – CATIA V5, SOLIDWORKS, AutoDesk Inventor.
- Leadership experience demonstrated through volunteer work.
Patents & Publications
2024. The Transpolar Motor.
USPTO 63/668,775, filed 07/09/2024. Patent pending.
Simulating a Piezoelectric-Haptic MEMS Actuator in Low-Frequency Vibration
Conference Paper, ASME IMECE, October 2022
Work Experience
Instructor: CAD w. Surfaces and Simulation (SOLIDWORKS)
April 2025 – June 2025
Western Washington University (WWU) | Bellingham, WA
- Rapidly gained expertise in SolidWorks Design & Simulation to meet a compressed timeline.
- Refined curriculum to fit students’ needs.
Operations Support Supervisor
June 2022 – Present
PACCAR: Kenworth Truck Division | Kirkland, WA
- Led engineering education from additive manufacturing to design for manufacturing (DFM).
- Led a code-named supplier transfer and ensured compliance with PACCAR processes and safety regulations (FMVSS) while minimizing production disruptions.
- Led DFM and 3D Printing groups while advancing the adoption of costing software.
- Oversaw a high-performing team of manufacturing engineers who saved over $1.2M in Six-Sigma savings and submitted 6 Six-Sigma projects in 2022.
- Wrote a Python script decoding PACCAR’s paint formulations for accurate paint costing.
Manufacturing Engineer
Jan 2017 – May 2022
Tool Gauge (TG) | Tacoma, WA
- Established a reputation for high-quality work delivered ahead of schedule.
- Ensured manufacturing compliance to Boeing specifications, AS9100 requirements, and OSHA robotic safety requirements (ANSI/RIA 15.06).
- Utilized 3D (FDM) printers to produce on-demand fixtures, test processes, and reduce the cost of existing fixtures by over 50%.
- Designed cobotic cell supporting six part configurations saving an estimated $200,000 per year, featured on the Universal Robots website.
- Developed software tool for tracking changes in customer purchase requests, saving hours of work every month for project managers and executives.
- Led sprue picker (robotics) implementation of TG’s next-generation presses.
- Designed quick-change system for sprue picker end of arm tools.
- Programmed complicated picking operations for tools with intricate cavities.
- Challenged the status-quo where appropriate:
Associate Civil Engineer
Jun 2016 – Aug 2016
City of Seattle | Seattle, WA
- Facilitated project coordination and inter-department communication.
- Developed procedures detecting conflicting projects in critical locations.
- Managed and assisted communications between public and private industry stakeholders throughout the City of Seattle.
Teaching Assistant: Computer Assisted Machining and Computer Assisted Design
Apr 2015 – Jun 2016
Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA
- Walked students through problem-solving methods when programming in G-Code, using CAD (CATIA V5), and CAM (CATIA V5 and Vericut).
- Demonstrated troubleshooting abilities when evaluating and correcting G-Code and CAD models submitted by students.
Student Tutor: Physics, Chemistry, Math, and Statistics
Sept 2013 – June 2016
Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA
- Educated students in technical subjects, primarily through problem-solving, intensive tutoring was possible when time allowed.
- Collaborated with both supervising instructors and a team of my peers.
Volunteer Experience
Chair, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Jan 2021 – Present
Seattle Chapter 39
- Coordinated and directed monthly chapter meetings.
- Managed chapter recovery during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Networked with local industry partners and organizations to arrange tours, contacts, and speaking events.
- Supervised outreach events to student and national chapters.
- Led chapter executive infrastructure improvements.
Chair-Elect, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Oct 2019 – Jan 2021
Seattle Chapter 39
President, Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Jun 2015 – Jun 2016
Western Washington University Chapter
- Organized community events, groups for multiple competition entries, inter-club co-operation.
- Facilitated the development of 3D printing maker space for the university engineering department.
Education
Saint Martin’s University (SMU), GPA 4.0 Grad: May 2024, Anticipated
Lacey, WA
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: Methods for Improving the High-Speed Performance of an IPMSM for EV Applications
- Electromechanical Machines
- Control Systems Design
- Optimization with MATLAB
- Vibrations
- Photovoltaics
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Robotics
Western Washington University ( GPA 3.25 Grad: June 2016
Bellingham, WA
B.S. Manufacturing Engineering, ABET Accredited Mathematics Minor
- Advanced CAD
- Advanced CAM
- Automation and Control
- Composites Design and Manufacturing
- Design for Manufacturing
- Design of Tooling
- Industrial Robotics
- Plastics Design and Manufacturing
- Statistics with Calculus
Some examples of my course work, mid-masters:
On electric aerospace and superconducting motors:
Simulating a Piezoelectric-Haptic MEMS Actuator in Low-Frequency Vibration
Deployment of a Jupyterhub Server
Optimization of a Flying Wing’s Geometry
Analysis of a 10 Bar Truss Using a Stiffness Matrix
This needs a little more introduction. The analysis used below resembles an FEA analysis, however it was computed by hand. The problem had a mesh provided, eliminating the most mathematically interesting part of an FEA process.
Beamed Power
A review of a semi-neglected technology that may rise to prominence in our era of cheap photovoltaics and private space ventures.