Mechanical Engineering Engineer

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Michael Tonks

Objective

Mechanical engineering position allowing for parlay of current engineering knowledge, skills, and experience. Interested in developing skillsets and experience necessary to becoming a successful professional engineer, while helping a company to grow and be successful.

Technical Skills/Proficiencies

• Experienced with NX, CATIA, Inventor, Solid Works and ProE CAD programs both inside and outside of a classroom setting, as well as ANSYS FEA program.

• Successful completion of following elective courses within engineering program:

Linear Algebra with Dr. Stephen Wyckoff

Introduction to Biomechanics with Dr. Anton Bowden

Neuromechanics with Dr. Steven Charles

Design for Manufacture and Assembly with Dr. Kenneth Chase

Kinematics with Dr. Brian Jensen

Fundamentals of Mathematics with Dr. Rodney Forcade

Organic Chemistry with Dr. Young Ham

• HTML, C++, and MATLAB programming, especially proficient in use of MATLAB

• Fluent in Spanish

• Proficient with Microsoft software such as Excel and Word

• Typing 50-60 WPM

• Clerical, database, troubleshooting and customer support expertise and experience

Experience

Teaching Assistant for Introductory CAD class

BYU: Dr. Greg Jensen Provo, UT August 2011-Present

• Duties included providing instructions in a computer lab setting to students to assist them in various assignments utilizing CAD programs like NX, Catia, and Inventor, as well teaching students the fundamentals of CAD design when requested. Also assisted professor in grading CAD assignments, projects and exams, assessing quality and completeness of work.

• Dr. Greg Jensen 801-***-****

Alarm System and Home Automation Technician APX Alarms Security Solutions (now Vivint Home Security) Provo, UT May 2008-April 2010

• Provided friendly technical support over the phone to customers regarding their alarm system. This involved explaining in detail to the customer basic user functions, as well as providing complex technical instructions designed to make sure that their alarm is functioning properly in the case of malfunctions; the goal being to successfully and safely fix all issues over at least 90% of all phone calls (without needing to send a field technician to the site). Provided walk-through instructions for new field techs on site during alarm installations, as well as provided set-up instructions for home automation for both customers and technicians.

• Becki Aucker- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/becki-auker/1b/354/a5b

Missionary for LDS Church Santiago-West Mission,

Concepcion-South Mission Chile, South America June 2003-July 2005

• Primarily concerned with teaching religious beliefs to individuals interested in learning more about them. Also heavily involved in humanitarian aid to Chileans. Missionaries organized into pairs, with a junior and senior companion, as well as organizational groups called districts and zones, determined by geographical locations of congregations. Spent several months as a senior companion as well as a trainer of new missionaries in understanding the language and culture of the Chilean people, as well as fundamentals of religious teaching.

Education

Brigham Young University Provo Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

• Major in Mechanical Engineering

• Minor in Math

• Additional course work from previous Biophysics major

Spent two years as a Biophyics major with a minor in Chemistry, switched in 2008 to Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on biomechanics and a minor in mathematics. The BS degree program in Mechanical Engineering at BYU is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, and includes the standard coursework for that degree (statics and dynamics, physics, fluid and thermodynamics, instrumentation and computation, etc.). Senior year in the program culminated in a capstone project where students were divided into groups and bid for unique projects offered by various sponsors. My team bid for and obtained a project working for US Synthetic designing mortar-less, compressed-earth bricks to be used in corners and “T’ intersections as well as the means to produce them cheaply to be used for low-income housing in Kenya and eventually other regions of Africa. Our sponsor also had us research several side projects related to the housing plans, such as providing sanitation, heating/cooling, and water to these homes.

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