Introduction

Manufacturing professional with experience in Material and Processing Engineering, project planning, thermal chamber cycle testing, validation of new procedures and equipment in an in-line lean manufacturing environment, skilled in failure analysis of electrical components of circuit boards, laboratory equipment including scanning electron microscopes (SEM), and conversational Japanese through living and working in Japan for 2 years, ability to share information effectively to others in a respectful/non-threatening manner.

Objective

Seeking a position in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, May 2004

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

GPA 3.8/4.0 (cumulative)

Selected Courses:

- Mechanics and Materials

- Material Selection in Design

- Mechanical Metallurgy

Living and working abroad in Japan

- Ability to speak conversational Japanese.

- Taught English lessons in elementary and middle school classrooms.

- Learned how to deal with many normal and difficult life situations in a country where reading or recognizing anything was difficult or impossible, and many things were very different from anything I had ever experienced.

Research/ Laboratory

Research Assistant at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the Design of Materials

- Toughness testing on materials selected for a design.

- Grain size determination on annealed samples by first doing all the preparation work including cutting the samples into pieces, preparing mold for the samples, molding samples, and screening them in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Research Assistant at the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory in Micro-Jets

- Assisted professor in class activities.

- Helped to assist graduate students with thesis projects.

- Graded class papers.

Experience

Assistant Language Teacher, IES and RCS

April 2009 - June 2009, September 2009 - August 2010

Tokyo, Japan

Responsibilities held as an Assistant Language Teacher:

- Assisted Japanese teachers in developing and teaching English lessons in elementary and middle schools.

- Coordinated with all teachers in the schools in preparation of lessons and teaching tasks.

- Each lesson consisted with a brief warm-up activity followed by an introduction of the lesson and then activities or games would follow.

- Participated in after school activities such as Kendo, calligraphy, and music.

Material and Processing Engineer Associate, Lockheed Martin Corp.

August 2005 - September 2006

Ocala, FL

Responsibilities held as a Material and Processing Engineer Associate:

- Failure analysis of circuit board components using voltmeters, light microscopes, and scanning electron microscopy.

- Performed thermal cycle testing on various components to determine causes of failures.

- Validated new equipment on the manufacturing floor such as an x-ray machine that was used to scan the solder joints of components to determine the integrity of the joints on the circuit boards of the products.

- Procedure manuals for equipment used on the manufacturing environment.

- Wrote technical reports on the various analyses performed in the laboratory.

Activities

- National Society of Collegiate Scholars

- S.A.E Formula Car

- American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Technical Skills

- Green Belt Six Sigma Training

- Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

- Basics in MathCAD, MATLAB, LabView, C

- Pro Engineer, Solid Works

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