Taylor Kenneth Maxwell

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Summary

Highly passionate and skilled Mechanical Engineering professional with complex design and project management experience in industries ranging from high volume semiconductor cleanrooms to industrial gas turbine plants. My diverse set of technical and interpersonal skills allow me to thrive in the global, cross functional engineering teams required to develop complex mechanical, electrical, and software driven systems. My continued drive and growth has allowed me to take on increasing roles that support all phases of innovate designs and project execution from product design and development to first article build and customer support Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2010-2011 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Certification in Micro and Nano Systems Engineering University of California, San Diego 2006-2010

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Experience

ASML US (Formerly Cymer) World’s largest supplier of photolithography systems to the semiconductor industry Senior Engineer – Global Support Center June 2017 - Present

• Provide 24/7, comprehensive technical engineering support to worldwide fleet of extreme ultra-violet lithography systems

• Use escalation and service management processes such as fault-tree and fishbone to provide diagnosis, troubleshooting, and repair support to field after first-line support has failed to isolate and fix problems in malfunctioning equipment

• Engineering solutions determined using data analysis suites driven by Python and MATLAB, engineering design tools, development labs, and fabrication cleanroom

• Main competency in plasma qualification and mechanical metrology with interdisciplinary strength in mechanical engineering, software engineering, electronics, optics, and plasma physics

• Daily remote and on-site collaboration with worldwide network of engineers to solve problems and deliver actions plans Solar Turbines Design and manufacturing of industrial gas turbines for the power generation and oil/gas markets Principle Design Engineer – Product Integration April 2016 – June 2017

• Project Manager and Design Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining standard turbomachinery product designs, with focus on new product introduction, from research and development phase to first article build

• Projects included collaboration with manufacturing, production floor, field personnel, and aftermarket organizations to produce innovative designs focused on manufacturability, serviceability, and accurate engineering deliverables

• Major Project: Mechanical lead and change administrator for the Titan 130 Modular Power Plant utilizing modularity principles for fully separable and interchangeable assemblies that reduce production costs and commissioning times Senior Design Engineer – Package Development and Integration April 2014 – June 2016

• Six Sigma DMAIC certified Green Belt with participation in multiple lean manufacturing projects

• Coordinated and implemented hundreds of engineering change requests to improve and innovate standard product

• Major Project: Converted designs to a linked, configurable, and functionally aligned data structure between PTC Windchill and CREO Parametric to drive a single source for engineering bills of material (BOM), electrical loop schematics, and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID).

Senior Design Engineer – Design Services December 2011 – March 2014

• Designer responsible for the creation of engineering deliverables under tight customer and production schedules including custom design, electrical layout, and fabrication/detail drawings all under ASME/ANSI Y14.5 GD&T standards

• Collaborated with suppliers, and internal customers on designs ranging from single components to 20,000-part assemblies Software Skills

• CAD Software: PTC CREO Parametric (drafting, modeling, and assemblies), CATIA, AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid Works, Vericut

• Data Analysis: MATLAB, Python, Excel, SQL, internally developed analysis suites

• Web Development: teamtreehouse.com member with studies in front-end development including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Other: PTC Windchill, Teamcenter, SAP, LabVIEW, Promise-e, MS Office Suite Masters Coursework and Projects

• Theory and design of micro/nano systems including characterization, solid state physics, prototyping, DF(x), and technology entrepreneurship through the mechanical engineering department

• Hands on experience included cleanroom fabrication and research, photolithography processes, sputter deposition, mask alignment, scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy

• Capstone Research Project: Researched and implemented a lithography technique capable of twenty nanometer pores over a large area in graphene using immiscible polymer chains and annealing processes for use in molecular filtration Previous Work Experience

UCSD Mechanical Engineering Department

Engineering Graphics and Design Teach Assistant March 2010 – June 2010

• Tutored a class of twenty on machine shop skills, AutoCAD, and Inventor

• Aided students with design, manufacturing and analysis of mechatronic robot project Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Material support for aircraft and airborne weapon systems for the US Navy F/A-18 Critical Structures Team Member June 2009 – September 2009

• Dismantled and analyzed critical stress components on high flight hour F/A-18 plane center fuselages

• Researched and identified possible candidates for future teardown projects Arnold Engineering Manufacturer and supplier of aero structures to the commercial and military aerospace industry Engineering Team Member June 2007 – September 2007 & June 2008 – September 2008

• Modeled, programmed, and simulated parts using CATIA and Vericut software

• Manufactured complete parts on numerous 3-axis and 5-axis CNC machines

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