Nelson Isaacson

Experience

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  North Dakota State University Residence Life

  Aug 2013 - May 2015

  Resident Assistant

  As a Resident Assistant (RA), I and my fellow staff were responsible for ensuring the safety and success of 35-300 individual students at NDSU. Duties included performing rounds and safety checks of the building, holding office hours to assist students, hosting events to enhance student life, and being a source of support and help for anyone who needed it. I attended multiple meetings a week with my peers and our supervisor and helped set goals to increase the productivity and performance of the residents in the building. Show less

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  Target

  Nov 2015 - Jun 2016

  Team Member

  Stockroom management, stock replenishment, sales floor assistance, and product allocation.

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  NDSU Student Affairs

  May 2016 - May 2017

  Building Manager

  Ensure availability and arrangement of meeting rooms, oversee room adjustments as needed, responsible for closing and locking the Memorial Union, responsible for ensuring accurate cash register counts and money drops after businesses close.

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  The Aagard Group LLC

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  Mechanical Design Engineer

  Tasked with designing secondary case-packing machinery per customer specifications. I worked on assemblies with part counts between a few dozen and up to a thousand parts to incorporate into machines with part counts in the tens of thousands. I specialized in palletizer designs and became a design team lead after 1.5 years of employment, which placed me in charge of overall process design and mechanical design to be developed by a small team.

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  Colorado State University

  Jan 2020 - Nov 2021

  Continuing to lead research into the design, manufacturing, and implementation of the hydroxyapatite bone grafts that I led the development of during my graduate research. Performing research into 3D printing bone graft materials. Lab instructor for MECH231 Engineering Experimentation. Instruct undergrads in the fundamentals of the equipment we used and guide them through experiments. Primarily focused on integrating LabVIEW into data collection. Developed a module for the course; I designed, manufactured, and tested the lab equipment required as well as created the literature and documentation for the module. GTA in the Central Instrumentation Facility at CSU. Responsible for maintaining Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and instructing students on the proper use of equipment.

  • Associate Research Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Nov 2021

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Jun 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2021 - May 2021

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2020 - May 2020
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  Thermo Fisher Scientific

  Nov 2021 - Aug 2022

  Senior Manufacturing Engineering Technician
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  CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

  Aug 2022 - now

  Teaching Labs Engineer