EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Graduation: May 2014

Biomedical Interdisciplinary Minor

Colorado State University (CSU), Fort Collins, CO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

R&D Engineering Intern: Value Plastics, Inc. Fort Collins, CO

June- Dec.

2013

. Daily Side Load Validation test from random samples for Sustain

Engineering Dual Lumen Project

. Validated Life Cycle Test, Pneumatic Leak Test and WIP tolerance

inspection in Project Flamethrower

. Organized part standards for company into more optimal detail drawings

through the Drawing Standards Project

. Converted SolidEdge Drawing files to PDF to allow company to transition

away from SolidEdge Software

. Other Duties: Prototype building, bio pharm market research, reverse

engineering, leak testing

. Acquired skills in: product testing, project management managing files in

MRP data base system

SELECTED ENGINEERING PROJECTS

INTEGRATED SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT: TEMPORARY TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE

PROCEDURE Sept 2013 to May 2014

. Designed first collapsible and expandable Aortic Heart Valve used in

trans apical heart surgery

. Collaboration between heart surgeon during design process to better

understand procedure

. Publication at Word Conference of Bio-mechanics in Boston

. 3rd Place Mechanical Engineering award by the Mechanical Advisory Panel

Board

. 2nd Place Bio-medical Engineering award and 2nd place Engineering Days

award

. Submission for National Institute of Health competition still pending

. US Provisional Patent filed to United States Patent & Trade Mark office

MECHATRONICS SEMESTER TEAM PROJECT

Fall 2012

. Designed a 3 way Air Hockey table by fabricating the material out of

wood, plywood and plexiwood

. Designed the circuits that included relay, PIC Microcontroller, Audio

output, 7 Segment LED

. Programmed the PIC Microcontroller to shut the system off when the final

score limit was achieved

Sophmore design 2 (BUIld a device) final TEAM project

Spring 2012

. Built a device whose task was to travel across a ping pong table, grasp

foam ball, and return in 45 seconds

. Learned conceptual design, product development, product testing and

utilized skills to test the device

Manufacture Processes INDIVIDUAL Clock Project

Spring

2012

. Machined and built a clock from schematics, maintaining .001 inch bi-

symmetric tolerance

. Utilized Vertical Milling Machine, Lathe, and CNC

REVERSE ENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM PROJEct

Spring 2012

. Used the mechanical design process with a team of young engineers to

reverse engineer an air compressor

. Modeled the motor, gear, and driving shaft in Creo Parametric and

developed a QFD to improve the old design

Design 1- Pro-E TEAM project

Fall 2012

. Designed and assembled Star Wars 1000 piece Death-Star set using Creo

Parametric software

. Used exploded assembly view in drawings and also rendered the background

of the 1000 piece assembly

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

7th and 8th Grade Head Basketball Coach: Fort Collins Parks and Rec

Feb

2014

. Tasks: Lead Practices, communicated with parents and most importantly

taught kids skills and requirments and was mentor for basketball

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Design Tools: Solid Works, Creo, Pro Visio. Modern CAE tools (FEA, CFD,

and CNC) QFD PIC Basic Pro, Pro View, ANSYS Analysis, MathCad and MatLAB

. Office Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

. Machining: Vertical Drill Press, Vertical Milling Machine, Lathe,

Vertical and Horizontal Band Saw, CNC

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