Mechanical Product Design Engineer II

• Designed Pixel 8

• Managed 76 individual unique parts totaling 168 pages of engineering drawings

• Designed Pixel 9

• Managed 8 individual unique parts totaling 18 pages of engineering drawings 

Mechanical Design Engineer I

• Led the mechanical systems for an R&D 250L pilot scale bioreactor

• Designed single use USP VI rated and FDA food safe plastic injection molded parts to maintain sterility, a watertight seal, and autoclave sterilization 

• Owned the sampling, thermal, gas sparging, sealing, input/output interfaces, and exhaust subsystems which included designing custom parts and integrating off-the-shelf solutions

• Manufactured electropolished aluminum and 316L components for easy cleaning and repeated use

• Assisted Program Manager in defining project scope requirements and writing project documentation 

•  Created the project timeline and organized team’s tasks by risk and blockers to achieve quarterly goals

• Collaborated with electrical engineers to develop electronic devices to improve safety in biological labs

• Created an ergonomic hand held device with IP 43 equivalent protection for lab techs to individually control 6            peristaltic pumps delivering fluid into 250mL and 5L bioreactors with 0.5 mL accuracy

• Designed a lab bench enclosure resembling Wall-E equipped with an IR sensor and OLED display to sense when a       person is away from equipment and periodically upload the data 

• Fabricated two different mountable enclosures to monitor acceleration, temperature, light, and humidity of labs        and equipment such as refrigerators, gas cylinders, cell culture incubators

Co-Founder & Program Manager 

• Managed 7 engineers to create a free virtual summer program to mentor students from around the world

• Taught 110+ students about product design engineering by teaching them to create a manufacturable plastic and metal part device through the use mentorship, weekly lectures, and workshops

• Designed injection molded parts to illustrate product design topics and features during lectures

Senior Desing Capstone Team Leader

• Developed a semi-automated seeding machine to plant 100 seeds a minute; increasing efficiency and harvest output by reducing seeding time by 60% and seeding operators from 5 to 1

• Led my team to design, fabricate, and program the seeding device under a $10,000 budget using off-the-shelf and rapid prototyped parts using CNC machining, Sheet metal, and 3D Printing

Founder and President 

• Student research organization to engage in research opportunities with faculty advisor relating to soft robotics, ROVs, and bio-inspired robotics

• Managed a team of 19 engineers to design and build an ROV for academic research on low energy buoyancy control mechanisms through reversible hydrogen fuel cells

• Supervised an undergraduate program to enhance the technical and collaboration skills of 14 mechanical and electrical engineering students

Hardware Product Sprint Mechanical Engineer

• 12-week mentorship by Google product design engineers to strengthen proficiency in hardware design, rapid prototyping, product development process, and injection molded manufacturing

• Created a speaker in Fusion 360 CAD with Google’s AIY voice kit and fabricated a 3D printed prototype

• Implemented injection molding DFM and DFA considerations to optimize cost and consistency: core/cavity parting line, draft angles, and ribs.

• Designed enclosure parts to improve manufacturability and include fastening solutions: thread forming screw bosses, snap fits, and adhesives

• Performed dimensional tolerance analysis to optimize PCB and part fit in the device

• Designed fastening solutions such as thread forming screw bosses and snap fits.

Product Design Engineering Intern 

• Designed and fabricated a crop harvester using 3D modeling and printing to prototype a hand drill powered crop harvester to increase crop harvesting by 400%

• Integrated autonomous nutrient, water, and air distribution system in the facility to use 20% less water

Reliability & Integrity Intern

• Utilized MS Excel macros and VBA coding to improve the database for tracking regulatory required integrity assessments on Shell’s 380 North American midstream assets, saving roughly 50 hours a year

• Engaged with various global business units to develop a knowledge of: material corrosion and cracking, material failure mechanisms, ultrasonic and magnetic flux inspection tools, Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

• Collaborated with electric rideshare startup, Electrip, to reduce Shell's carbon emissions

Pipeline Engineering Intern 

• Created a welded pipeline fittings inspection protocol and smart checklist to detect out of dimension fittings before they arrive on site, saving an average minimum of $5,000 on future projects 

• Established an understanding of pipeline design, safety, and federal energy regulatory process 

• Performed design calculations for pipeline waterbody and road crossings to meet specification

• Routed 0.55 mile 20” greenfield pipeline, supplying 202 MDth/D

• Mapped possible access roads from county road

• Evaluated stresses induced by dynamite blasting on 135 pipeline sites

• Worked with engineers and project managers to develop and execute contractor project scope documents.

BP Sophomore Experience

• Participated in a week-long program to gain knowledge on the oil and gas markets

• Learned about commodity trading, trading analytics, and risk management

• Applied industry knowledge and critical thinking to evaluate and solve case studies