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Educational Qualification:

Winona State University, Winona, MN

• Bachelor of Science (May 2009)

• Major: Composite Materials Engineering

• Minor: Mathematics.

Memberships/Honors:

• Member of The National Scholars Honor Society fall 2008

• WSU student panel representative at the 2008 Engineering Articulation Conference held at the University of Minnesota

• 2007 Champion of the WSU Warrior Robot battle competition

• National Dean’s list spring 2007

Technical Strengths:

Four years of extensive experience in injection molding and extrusion.

Three year of experience in mechanical testing following the appropriate ASTM stipulations

A year of experience in building and modifying tooling in a manufacturing process.

Three years of extensive experience in using CAD (Solidworks)

Hand-on experience in different manufacturing processes

Professional Experience:

Injection Molding Technician 09/2010 to Present

Rehrig Pacific Company, Lawrenceville, GA.

Description: Assist the company in the molding department as it strives to keep to its motto of delivering services of perfect quality to its customers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ensure that injection molding machines and secondary equipment run to quality standards while meeting all production goals.

Implement production decisions to suit customer requests.

Work with quality personnel to achieve quality standards set forth.

Operate the injection molding machine from set up through runs to clean up.

Make sure produced parts are of highest quality.

Make sure part finishing and decoration meet the standard set forth.

Assist in part branding as required.

Assist in the materials’ room.

Assist in grinding rejected parts for further processing.

Operating the fork-lift.

Environment: Rehrig Pacific Company, Lawrenceville, GA.

Injection Molding Lead Technician 06/2006 to 08/2010

RPM Co. Burnsville

Description: Assist the company in leading services such as design and analysis, material characterization, testing, and prototype manufacturing to customer satisfaction. Lead the operation of all machines from set up to production runs and clean up.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Manage personnel in the molding department.

Coordinate all scheduled production activities.

Ensure that injection molding machines and secondary equipment run to quality standards while meeting all production goals.

Lead a production team at meetings and in accomplishing the production goals.

Make and Implement production decisions to suit customer requests.

Work with quality personnel to achieve quality standards set forth.

Operate the injection molding machine from set up through runs to clean up.

Environment: RPM Co Burnsville.

Winona State University Senior Design Project: 10/2008 to 04/2009

Composite Edge Performance Golf Putter

Description: The goal of the project was to design and manufacture a high performance golf putter using composites. Its key design features took advantage of the properties of composite materials. I led a team of four members to deliver the project on time and within budget.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Used advanced composite material to fabricate gulf putter

Extensive CAD work (Solidworks) in designing the prototype and finally the model of the putter.

Developed design, architecture and instructions for manufacturing process

Built and modified tooling for the manufacturing process

Design website for project

Develop qualification test program according to ASTM stipulations.

Created quality control system specification.

Selected the appropriate material for fabrication through some research work.

Environment: Composite Materials and Technology Center (COMTEC)

Winona State University, Academic Research: 10/2008 to 05/2009

RTP Winona

Description: The project sponsored by RTP Company of Winona MN was geared at comparing the mechanical properties of injection molded reinforced plastic parts with predictions from moldflow simulation. Some extensive microscopy work was done so as to compare the fiber orientation in the molded part with the simulations. I led a team of three that performed the research and the outcome saved this company a lot of time in their production process.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Produced parts using injection molding process

Selected appropriate material for process based on properties

Set up for injection molding process

Used moldflow software to model material behavior

Mechanical testing of produced parts

Employed advanced microscopy technique

Prepared weekly summary report on process advancement.

Environment: Composite Materials and Technology Center (COMTEC)

Presbyterian Homes and Services – Arden Hills, MN 08/2000 to 08/2009

Description: This is a nursing home setting in which elderly adults are assisted with their activities of daily living. My excellent team work and CNA skills earned me the exclusive privilege of being sponsored for the Trained Medication Assistant (TMA) position by the company.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Assisted the elderly with their activities of daily living (ADL) and administered medications

Provided Spiritual care for residents and their families

Prestige Health Care and Services – Coon Rapids, MN 08/2006 to 01/2009

Description: It is a small company in the group home setting in which vulnerable individuals are assisted with various needs. My managerial skills earned me the administrative position for the company from 2007 to 2009 where it expanded three folds.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As an administrator of this Group Home facility, I was responsible for the supervision of assistants

Took charge of hiring, staffing and pay roll

In collaboration with my Registered Nurse, I was actively involved in the admission of new clients into my facility

Tools / Skill sets

Machine Handling: SEM, Injection Molding machine CNC machines and Corrosion testing equipment. Mechanical testing (ASTM), Thermal analysis, Surface analysis, Physical property testing (ASTM), Chemical Analysis, Resin transfer molding, Injection molding, Extrusion, Pultrusion,Vacuum bagging, Hand layup,VARTM, Compression molding, Auto-clave, Filament winding

Machine Shop: Machine tool technology, Lathe, Milling, drilling, etc.

Manufacturing systems: Lean, 6- Sigma.

Computer Software: Solidworks (CAD), Mathematica, Moldflow, Microsoft Office, ProModel, CompositePro, Labview.

INTERESTS

I love a lot of team sports and I am an excellent soccer player.

I like learning new things so I do have fun reading engineering magazines and novels.

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