Professional Experience
Lead Engineer, Quality Manager, IT Support - ProtoQuick
2015-Present
- Built and maintain company website (Jekyll, JavaScript, CSS Grid, Serverless Form/File-Upload Services) resulting in ~25% more RFQ’s
- Successfully manage and complete >50 mold projects/year (doubled this year)
- Implement and manage ISO 9001:2015 quality system, passing audits with no major findings for 5 years
- Train, coordinate, and oversee multiple engineers and quality assurance techs
Mechanical Engineering - Simms Machinery
2014-2015
- Created a Python program to interface with FORTRAN library to automate iterative analysis for turbine-compressor design. Upgraded from a 1-at-a-time, manual Excel spreadsheet. Easily saved over 100 hours/year of engineer time.
- Built and released a lead-generation iPhone Swift app in 3 months, despite no one at the company having any mobile or Swift experience, including me!
- Identified the need and built a database to catalog drawers full of technical drawings to speed up searches, queries (MS Access, VBA)
- In <6 months, learned turbomachinery FEA/CFD methods and wrote a step-by-step manual to aid future engineers
Education
Master's in Computer Science - Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
June 2021 | GPA: 3.90 Intelligent Systems Focus Master's Thesis: Solving the Mold Shop Problem (Link to come) Digital Forensics, Robotics, Application Security, Artificial IntelligenceBachelor's in Mechanical Engineering - Cal Poly, SLO, CA
June 2014 | GPA: 3.78 Thermodynamics, Fluids, Controls, Vibrations, MATLAB, Linear Analysis, Python for Data AnalysisSkills
- Project management and scheduling
- Cost/time/work estimation
- Design review
- Ideation/brainstorming process
- Team-based problem-solving
- Mechanical design/analysis
- Software craftsmanship
- Code readability
- Code maintainability
- Code efficiency
- Proficient technical writer
- Owning projects from start to finish
- Collaborating with customers, vendors, teammates, and managers
- In-person, phone, e-mail, and chat communication
- Leading meetings
- Generating reports
- Managing complex business systems
- Teaching
- Mentoring teammates
- Preparing internal documentation