Engineering Assistant

TAYLOR GIDDENS

*** *** ******, ***** *****, ID *************@*****.*** 424-***-****

Georgia Tech Materials Science and Engineering B.S./M.S. with 5 year industry experience and varied laboratory experience seeking full time employment. Competencies

• Metallurgy

• Mechanical characterization experience

• Analytical problem solving skills

• Positive attitude that fosters team work

• Communication skills; bilingual

EXPERIENCE

September 2012 – Present The NanoSteel Company Idaho Falls, ID Research Engineer

• Processing and investigating new steel alloys across a wide range of chemical compositions

• Implementing methodologies of tensile and hardness testing to meet ASTM/ISO standards

• Induction heating caster, arc melter, wire EDM, vacuum tube and box furnaces, rolling mill

• Designing and implementing improved sample and process traceability within the lab

• Developing post processing strategies to optimize structure and properties in nanostructured sheet

• Writing comprehensive technical laboratory reports with detailed analysis July 2011 – July 2012 P2i Processing Centers North America Savannah, GA Processing Technician

• Operated RF plasma polymerization vacuum chambers

• Developed and updated SOP’s

• Determined proper coating parameters for production items and samples

• Tested coated products using goniometer, SATRA flex tester, Tabar linear abrasions, salt fog accelerated corrosion chamber

• Wrote testing reports for customers

• Audited process flow in major OEM manufacturing facility in China April 2011 – July 2011 AMP Security Florence, SC

Installation Technician

• Same day installations of residential security systems

• Resolved inventory mismanagement

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Graduate Research Assistant

• Worked with team in design, fabrication, and characterization of solar cells to improve performance

• Gained clean room wet bench and tool experience

• Fabricated solar cells using tube furnace for doping, PECVD coating, metallization screen printing, and belt furnace firing

• Characterized performance using lighted IV, quasi steady state photoconductance decay, internal quantum efficiency, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy May 2008 – Aug 2008 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduates Participant (Hooked on Photonics)

• Synthesized new conjugated polymer chalcogenide with help of mentor

• Searched literature for effective procedures to successfully synthesize and isolate new product

• Characterized product by UV-vis, GC-MS, cyclic voltammetry, FTIR, and NMR

• Presented results to peers in poster session and printed 5-page extended abstract in program publication

May 2007 – Sept 2007 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA NSF-Research Experience for Undergraduates Participant (SURF)

• Modeled electronic structure of semiconducting conjugated organic molecules C60 and pentacene using quantum chemical modeling software NWChem

• Optimized molecular geometries in ChemDraw as input for modeling scripts

• Results were presented at 7th International Conference on Electroluminescence - Dresden

(September 2-6, 2008)

Jan 2007 – Dec 2007 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Supported Ph.D. researcher by synthesizing silver nanoparticles through reduction and subsequently in situ living ring opening polymerization

• Adjusted procedure in order to decrease particle size and increase polymer coating thickness and uniformity

• Characterized results with FTIR

EDUCATION

May 2009 – Dec 2010 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA MS, non-thesis, coursework in Materials Science and Engineering Dec 2010 GPA: 3.42

Relevant Coursework

• Surface Analysis

• Transmission Electron Microscopy

• Crystalline Structures and Defects

• Impedance & Dielectric Spectroscopy

• IC Fabrication

• Solar Cells

2006 – 2009 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA BS Materials Science and Engineering May 2009

GPA: 3.75

Relevant Coursework

• Characterization of Materials

• Materials Laboratory I, II

• Electronic Applications of Materials

• Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials

• Structural Transformations – Metals, Ceramics, & Polymers

• Mechanical Behavior of Materials

• Chemical Thermodynamics of Materials

• Principles and Applications of Engineering Materials

• Design with Materials I & II

• Calculus I,II,III / Differential Equations

• Statistics & Numerical Methods

• Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering

• General / Inorganic / Organic Chemistry I, II

GLOBAL EXPERIENCE

• Audited process flow in P2i production area inside Motorola Mobility’s Tianjin manufacturing plant

• Trained at P2i headquarters in Oxfordshire, UK for 3 months

• Lived 22 months in Taiwan

• Learned fluently the Mandarin Chinese language to communicate and teach

• Taught free English classes

LANGUAGES

• English

• Mandarin Chinese

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