Tony Oh

Experience

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  Smoothie King (SKFI)

  Feb 2019 - Apr 2020

  Sales Team Member
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  Lear Corporation

  Aug 2019 - May 2020

  Senior Capstone Project Team Member

  Polyester (PET) has been used in 95% of automotive seat covers since the early 1990’s. Concerns have arisen over its continued use due to the fact that PET is not derived from renewable resources and takes 20-200 years to decompose. Natural fibers offer a green alternative to PET as they are renewable materials, and those derived from plants absorb carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the environment. With these things in mind, Lear Corporation approached the team with the goal to create a more sustainable automotive car seat fabric with at least 30% natural fiber by content. The group is also tasked with exploring the use of recycled PET, which is growing in availability yet seldom used in automotive components. Conceptualization of the project started with benchmarking existing PET automotive upholstery fabrics to determine baseline performance properties for the new fabric. Natural fibers were ranked by most feasible for this particular application, as well as how well they aligned with the group definition of sustainability. Wool and hemp ranked the best in performance and sustainability categories, respectively. After securing the right yarns, we researched which fabric structures would best allow the incorporation of the natural yarns into a fabric. Inspiration was taken from traditional denim, a fabric which uses natural staple fiber yarns, yet is known for its strength and durability, and thus the first prototype was created using a denim twill weave. The team also created a prototype using a hopsack weave, as this is an industry. We settled on a wool/PET twill fabric, which was proven to meet the most important requirements for a car seat fabric. There has also been significant progress and research into the feasibility of a hemp/PET fabric, as there were promising results that indicated the possible success of a hopsack fabric constructed from these yarns. Show less

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  B and B Landscape

  Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

  Turf Specialist

  Experience in residential lawncare: mowing, weeding, edging, mulching, fertilizing, seeding, aeration, shrubbery maintenance.

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  The Home Depot

  Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  Textile Test Engineer

  • Oversee the quality assurance process from assigning test protocols and reviewing textile testing and inspection reports, to issuing quality assurance letters to initiate shipment of goods.• Proficient in reviewing physical/analytical material testing and inspection to comply with regulations and consumer needs.• Create product setup sheets to utilize RPA tool to initiate data entry for product lifestyle management.• Utilize FlexPLM platform to assign testing protocols to soft & hard goods.• Undertook stretch projects to support apparel, bedding, and home textile departments with developing product setup sheets, robotic process automation (RPA) submissions, and data entry.• Utilized Oracle Netsuite to process all purchase orders with their testing and inspection reports. Show less

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  UL Solutions

  Jul 2022 - now

  Personal Protective Equipment Engineer