Experience

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  Art+contraptions

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Art department coordinator

  Prototype design, museum-quality sculpture and furniture fabrication. Full service design, engineering, and production of temporary structures(film/commercial)

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  Sci-arc

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

  Cnc programmer

  Trained students to safely operate 3-axis CNC router, 60w laser cutter, plasma cutter, 3d printer, and vacuum thermoformer using advanced techniques such as coordinate referencing and multi-part mold construction. Assisted students with advanced fabrication and precision tool use. Introduced students to adhesive bonding and FRP techniques and provided a foundation of best-practices

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  Sark custom awning

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Permit technician

  Prepared commercial and residential building permits, shop drawings, and digital concept models. Created engineering document sets for light architectural structures. Authorized engineering changes and issued advanced revisions to engineering documents during largerinstallations and off-site fabrication.

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  Structural integrity engineering

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  System engineer

  Provided production support & manufacturability review of structural developed parts to allow the integration of new systems. Modified existing structural assemblies to accommodate new hardware. Adapted a McDonnell-Douglas MD10 wide-body aircraft to accommodate a modular hospital and below-deck laboratory.

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  Materia

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Prototype engineer

  Design, fabricate, assemble, and qualify full-scale prototypes. Duties included design of experiments and capture of all relevant test data at each stage of the design cycle.

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  Ball-nogues design studio llc

  Oct 2017 - now

  Fabrication manager