Experience

Virginia State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Adjunct Faculty

  • ‏أغسطس 2020 - - الحالي

• Research And Teaching Assistant

  • ‏مارس 2020 - ‏يوليو 2020

  Supporting research and student project based activities



CCAM - Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • ‏فبراير 2018 - - الحالي

  Charged with soliciting, designing, executing and managing manufacturing process based projects for customers with a heavy emphasis on aerospace qualified techniques. Designed and implemented low-cost in-situ automated tool wear imaging technique that reduced the measurement time for one tool from 30 minutes to 1 minute while eliminating operator subjectivity and increasing the fidelity of the data. Has been implemented in extended tool wear studies (4000+ samples).

• Manufacturing Research Engineer

  • ‏فبراير 2018 - - الحالي



Diversified Scientific LLC

• Director Of Engineering

  • ‏مايو 2017 - ‏فبراير 2018

  Lead Technical Position within this start-up engineering firm. Collaborated with equipment manufacturers to adapt their existing line of equipment to the agriculture sector. Successfully built and deployed for use a prototype version with plans for increasing scale. Developed a modular offline data logging system aimed at process monitoring and control for large agriculture entities using Arduinos to capture data from analog and digital sensors which is then aggregated in a GUI for visualization and process control using a Raspberry Pi and Python, storing data in on-disk SQLite database for later analysis.



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • ‏يناير 2016 - ‏مايو 2017

  Worked under the direction of Dr. Jaime Camelio in the Center for Innovation Based Manufacturing. Conducted research as Co-PI on two research projects as well as supported other research through fixture design and manufacturing using a Hass VF3 Mill with 5-axis trunnion, 3D printers and other traditional metal working tools. Research interests included automate visual inspection of non-uniform defects and dynamic variation propagation simulation.

• Manager

  • ‏يونيو 2015 - ‏ديسمبر 2015

  Manager of the Center of Innovation based Manufacturing at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Responsible for installing and performing routine maintenance on all manufacturing and laboratory equipment. Worked with manufacturer to troubleshoot and fix non-operational industrial injection molder. Manufactured supporting articles for lab research using subtractive and additive manufacturing methods. Consulted student campus groups on best manufacturing processes and manufactured prototypes for their novel products. Also served as consultant for Air Force Research Lab (ARFL) in joint applied research at Aeroprobe Corporation.



Aeroprobe Corporation

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Additive Friction Stir Engineer

  • ‏سبتمبر 2015 - ‏يناير 2016

  Worked closely with Principal Scientist and Lead Engineer in the development of novel solid-state additive manufacturing technique. Prepared metal and metal composite samples using a wire EDM and acid etching techniques. Characterized and formally reported results to Principal Scientist using an optical microscope and tensile tester. Developed go/no-go automatic inspection protocol for the deposition technique using MatLAB. Co-authored multiple end-of-phase reports for different internal and external research projects.



CCAM - Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Engineer Intern

  • ‏أغسطس 2014 - ‏مايو 2015

  Assisted in the development of Laser Assisted Milling (LAM) process, aiding in compiling supporting literature as well as experimental and test bed design. Tasked with sourcing necessary components for LAM and other projects. Authored multiple process oriented SOPs including tool characterization using confocal and optical microscopes and infrared spectrometery of multiple materials using one sensor. Drafted 3D and 2D models to support multiple projects and facility planning in NX. Assisted in the development of Laser Assisted Milling (LAM) process, aiding in compiling supporting literature as well as experimental and test bed design. Tasked with sourcing necessary components for LAM and other projects. Authored multiple process oriented SOPs including tool characterization using confocal and optical microscopes and infrared spectrometery of multiple materials using one sensor. Drafted 3D and 2D models to support multiple projects and facility planning in NX.



Virginia State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • ‏يونيو 2014 - ‏يوليو 2014

  Investigated effectiveness of using an insulator to preheat the area in front of friction stir weld tooling to decrease wear. Modeled thermal behavior of process using Siemens NX FEA software and torque based heat input model. Designed and implemented data acquisition scheme using LabView, capturing force and temperature data. Analyzed data using Microsoft Excel and found correlation between increase of the temperature affected zone in front of the tool and a decrease in force output. Awarded a grant to present research at the 2015 Emerging Researchers National Conference.



Virginia State University (SAMHSA)

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • ‏مايو 2014 - ‏مايو 2014

  Co-authored research poster on retaining minorities in STEM fields, using SPSS to enter and analyze survey data, finding strong correlation between self-efficacy and retention. Co-Facilitated NIA based risky sexual behavior/drug abuse interventions for high school and college aged males Co-authored research poster on retaining minorities in STEM fields, using SPSS to enter and analyze survey data, finding strong correlation between self-efficacy and retention. Co-Facilitated NIA based risky sexual behavior/drug abuse interventions for high school and college aged males



Virginia Nebraska Sudent Research Alliance

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • ‏يوليو 2013 - ‏أغسطس 2013

  Completed research on mental health and sexual behaviors in mainly African American male youths. Presented research at the 2014 Virginia Psychology Association Conference Completed research on mental health and sexual behaviors in mainly African American male youths. Presented research at the 2014 Virginia Psychology Association Conference