Experience

Bescast, Inc.

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NDT Engineer

  • Dec 2017 - Present



Hunter Internation - Lubrizol

• Wickliffe Ohio

• Laboratory Technician

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2017

  Primarily responsible for prioritizing, preparing, and performing sample testing, calibrating lab equipment, and improving lab processes. • Proactively sought new tests to learn in order to provide coverage and redundancy for ASTM foam, NOACK volatility, viscosity, density, and rotational viscosity testing methods. • Collaborate with other technicians to generate electronic data sheet to increase data integrity. • Developed new method for cleaning diffusers, increasing throughput and decreasing complexity. Show less



Swagelok

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reliability Engineer

  • May 2014 - Feb 2015

  Responsible for investigating repetitive failures of equipment. Creating, updating, and processing standard work documents for preventative maintenance. • Entered external oil parts into maintenance system for future machine rebuild parts acquisition, allowing for easier and more consistent parts ordering for each machine, for the first time in the ten year history of the machine rebuild program. • Assessed 10 machines for preventative maintenance and critical spares improvements giving over 12 hours of planned down time back to maintenance per month. • Managed a project to rebuild threading machines by collaborating with purchasing, shipping and receiving, production, engineering, and the machine manufacturer to prepare the proposal, financial analysis and complete the rebuild, while working with the planner/scheduler to automate the process for ease of future rebuilds through the maintenance management system. Show less



Boehringer Ingelheim

• Germany
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Engineer

  • May 2013 - Oct 2013

  Responsible for the procurement, installation, commissioning, operation, and decommissioning of capital equipment ranging in cost from $25,000 - $500,000 as well as engineering technical support. • Worked on a cross functional team with safety, production, purchasing, maintenance, shipping and receiving, and metrology to install intrinsically safe equipment and components, coming in under budget and on time, while facilitating the production of flammable products. • Coordinated with safety department, IT and outside contractors to bring in and install new uninterruptable power supplies, air handlers and condensers providing network redundancy and data center temperature control. Show less



Ben Venue Laboratories

• Engineering Technician

  • Aug 2011 - May 2013

  Responsible for field data acquisition, study development, study execution, troubleshooting and maintaining existing equipment, assessing new technology, and developing best practice guidelines, systems, and processes. • Completed protocols, reports, criticality analyses, and process flow diagrams resulting in the successful preparation of seven drug presentations for validation readiness. • Trended and analyzed data for 700 alarms for a production facility performance qualification establishing primary cause for alarms and providing corrective actions, prevent future alarms. • Studied and implemented macros in Excel VBA creating an automated Excel sheet for the pilot plant to assist in completing over 500 studies that year, which was the most in the history of the department. • Traced and redlined existing piping and instrumentation diagrams for pilot plant steam and glycol loops correcting existing piping and instrumentation diagrams as well as creating the rough draft for a loop that previously lacked a diagram. • Collaborated with engineering, IT, purchasing, training, and documentation departments to bring new office space onsite and set up initial training for 25 new temporary employees broadening work that able to be done by all Manufacturing Science and Technology departments. Show less



The AES Corporation

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Co-op

  • Mar 2008 - Sep 2010

  Responsible for completing plant statistics for daily report, logging daily coal inventory, tracking coal type burned, gypsum quality, and particulates scrubbed from flue gas, as well as performing ash dike inspections. • Obtained ambient air temperatures, fan speeds, and plant load to determine the plant’s maximum generation for a given temperature allowing operators to more accurately predict a day’s generation based on ambient temperature. • Tracked and trended every aspect of the heat rate calculation for the plant resulting in a 2000 point heat rate reduction when the primary air heater was cleaned during an outage. • Worked with IT to develop a program that would allow operations supervisors to print off tags for lock-out-tag-out procedures during outages resulting in a significant time reduction for the task. Show less