Sean MacKenzie

Experience

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  North Island Lifeguard Service

  Jun 2008 - Sept 2012

  Senior Lifeguard

  Senior Lifeguard at North Island Lifeguard Service located at NASNI, Coronado, California. Oversaw daily operations of beach staffing and management. Provided first-responder level medical care for patients and worked with Emergency Medical Services to transport patients to more advanced life support.

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  UC Santa Barbara

  Mar 2013 - Jun 2013

  SolidWorks Lab Assistant/Grader

  Lab Assistant/Grader to an introductory SolidWorks and design class at UCSB under professional Matt Sprankle. Taught a weekly introductory class to freshmen mechanical engineers on SolidWorks for use in design, modeling, simulation, creation of drawings, and BOM's.

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  Advanced Vision Science Inc. (A Santen Company)

  Sept 2013 - May 2014

  Research and Development Intern

  Work closely with engineering team on new product development and process improvements in an FDA-regulated environment. Assist R&D engineers in prototype development, process fixture development, SolidWorks modeling, optical and mechanical data collection and analysis of intraocular lenses. Work with machine-shop equipment and a variety of characterization equipment including spectrophotometry, interferometry, wavefront-analysis, and mechanical testing methods. Assist in engineering report procedures, documentation, and write-ups. Show less

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  Graphiq Inc.

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  Product Associate

  About Graphiq:Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) is a data aggregation and visualization company that turns complicated data into contextually-rich presentations of the world's knowledge. For consumers, Graphiq operates a number of trusted vertical search engines, spanning tech gadgets (specout.com) and real estate (findthehome.com), to education (startclass.com) and government (insidegov.com). For publishers, the company offers several solutions for improving audience engagement with embeddable, contextually-rich visualizations. More information is available at www.graphiq.com. Show less

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  Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC)

  Aug 2015 - now

  Mechanical Engineer

  The Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) provides specialized facilities engineering, technology solutions, and life-cycle management of expeditionary equipment to the Navy, Marine Corps, federal agencies, and other Department of Defense clients worldwide.

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  University of California, Santa Barbara

  Aug 2016 - now

  PhD Student

  3rd-year mechanical engineering Ph.D. student working in micro- and nanoscale fluidic systems. My current interests include fundamental research into micro- and nanoscale electrochemistry and novel electrokinetic sensing applications.