Dallas Dennison

www.linkedin.com/in/dallasldennison

acuns1@r.postjobfree.com • Tampa, FL • 813-***-****

Objective

Passionate, dynamic, and self-driven team member looking to utilize effective communication and problem-solving skills to provide innovative engineering and process improvements within a fast-paced environment.

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 05/16

Minor: Biomedical Engineering; GPA: 3.32/4.0

Experience

Manufacturing Engineer Co-op, Sparton Electronics, Brooksville, FL 05/15 – 12/15

•Implemented modernized electronic production software to production floor, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and uniform standard operating procedures of circuit board and box build assemblies.

•Independently designed and created Aegis processing template for new and existing box build assemblies.

•Supported and provided production floor solutions to 80 operators with Aegis related complications.

•Incorporated AQL sampling and process improvements into Aegis processing, meeting ISO-9001 regulations.

•Tested Aegis software updates for errors and quality assurance, accounting over 30% of reported issues.

President, USF Chemistry Society 01/15 – 12/15

•Demonstrated leadership, organization and management skills by developing first societal lecture series for 200+ chemistry students, hosting a collaborative engineering expo reaching 10,000 grade school students, and leading Science for Every Student, an event that showcasing college life and STEM careers.

•Led general body meetings and supervised tasks performed by a cross-functional E-board team.

Research Assistant, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 09/14 – 12/14

•Furthered personal communication skills through researching in a diversified and cultured group.

•Analyzed gold and silver nanoparticles for their uses as adsorption surfaces to detect and target viruses and cancerous cells through Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.

Tutor, Pensacola State College S.S.S. Program, Pensacola, FL 05/12 – 08/13

•Educated students 20 hours per week in the areas of Chemistry, Calculus, Biology, Physics and English.

•Aided in accelerating the graduation rate of students in the SSS program to 40%, compared to the college’s 20%.

Projects

Swimsuit for Epileptic Triathletes 08/15 – 04/16

•Challenged with developing and prototyping remote controlled inflatable swimsuit for epileptic triathletes.

•Managed product design and development including deliverables and Gantt charts.

•Successfully prototyped initial design and laid groundwork for continual improvement of device.

EMG Controlled Quadcopter 01/15 – 04/16

•Developed a device that integrates bicep and tricep EMG signals, which regulates flight path of quadcopter.

•Proposed the basic control scheme and designed 3D printed component housing within SolidWorks.

Leadership & Affiliations

•Founding Co-Chair, Younger Chemists Committee – Tampa Bay 08/15 – 05/16

•Volunteer Mentor, College for Every Student 02/14 – 05/16

•Member, American Chemical Society 07/15 – 07/16

Skills & Techniques

Process Simulation – Simulink, COMSOL, Aspen Plus

Laboratory – Column and Thin Layer Chromatography Simple, Fractional, Steam and Batch Distillation

Computer – Matlab, Python, VBA, SAS, SQL, R Oracle Agile PLM Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, etc.

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