Experience

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  Idaho space grant consortium

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Student coordinator

   Coordinated Idaho Teaching Engineering to Children (TECH) program.  Organized and inventoried competition materials, recorded team registration. Scheduled events and organized volunteers for TECH and First Lego League competitions. Website design and maintenance (html).

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  Nasa ames research center

  Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  Mechanical engineering intern

  + Redesigned Matlab based GUI for prototype robot. + Designed circuit and outlined approach for integrating force sensors into prototype robot.

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  Nasa ames research center

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Mechanical engineer intern

  + Prototyped mechanism to passively deploy rolled kapton film antenna from K-10 planetary rover. + Mechanical brake using servo motor and integrated Arduino microcontroller with K-10 user control.+ Completed full system tests at NASA Ames rover testing ground 'Marscape.'

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  Nasa ames research center

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Mechanical engineer intern

  +Designed an instrumented deformable robotic structure for drop testing.+Mechanical design and fabrication for twisted string actuation testing rig.+Design and fabrication work for Tensegrity Linear Actuator.

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  Mikroscan technologies, inc.

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

  Mechanical engineer

  +Mechanical design of all new products and components+Oversee contract engineering work and collaborate to make decisions on key component design+Redesign current product for reliability, ease of use/servicing, assembly, and cost reduction+Reduced assembly and QA process time using precision measurement tools to guarantee optics orthogonality +Part-level production management including vendor and manufacturer management+General systems integration and interface with software development Show less

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  Colmac industries

  Dec 2014 - Jul 2017

  Mechanical engineer

  +Work with building engineers to specify industrial heat pump water heaters+Specify, design, document, and supervise production of new parts for active product line -Includes mechanical, electrical, and refrigeration components+Currently developing full system for frost detection and adaptive frost thawing controls for heat pump water heaters +Create complex calculators to aid in the specification of industrial heat pump water heaters and develop sales tools+Instruct customers and factory representatives on all fascets of technical details of industrial heat pump water heaters+Lead software developer for new product line of heat pumps Show less

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  Colmac coil manufacturing, inc.

  Jul 2017 - now

  R&d controls/design engineer