Experience

Volumetric Technologies

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Engineer

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Red Wing, Minnesota, United States



Preco, Inc.

• United States

• Manufacturing Engineer

  • Nov 2021 - Sep 2023

  Somerset, Wisconsin, United States • I support Contract Manufacturing Services (CMS) for various laser processing operations (perorating, cutting, welding, cladding, heat treating, etc.) in markets that range from: food packaging, abrasive cutting, gear heat treating and battery terminal welding. I work with Application Engineers, starting from initial trialing, working through product costing and seeing the product all the way through handoff to production with necessary supporting documentation. As part of my project work, I… Show more • I support Contract Manufacturing Services (CMS) for various laser processing operations (perorating, cutting, welding, cladding, heat treating, etc.) in markets that range from: food packaging, abrasive cutting, gear heat treating and battery terminal welding. I work with Application Engineers, starting from initial trialing, working through product costing and seeing the product all the way through handoff to production with necessary supporting documentation. As part of my project work, I identified severe safety concerns with numerous high speed machines. Put together: scope, budget and timeline for each machine to upgrade them with perimeter guards that are electrically interlocked. I managed all the projects from concept design all the way through installation on each machine. I also started a program to track daily metrics out on the production floor. Every day we meet to discuss the previous days numbers (non-conformances, parts per hour, etc.) and discuss ways to improve anything in the process. Actions were then assigned to the support group and followed up on until they were completed and communicated back to the operations group. Another major project I am currently working on is machine reliability. I broke this down into 2 major areas to improve upon. The first, which had immediate impact, was to establish a preventative maintenance schedule for each asset. I worked with maintenance and wrote every procedure (with pictures attached) for each machine in our MaintainX software. The second phase is to evaluate each major asset for critical spare parts, put together proposals for each and present them to management. In addition to this, I started a program utilizing our parts crib to inventory what we currently have in house. This prevents redundant work for engineering and maintenance (identifying, specifying, quoting, etc.) and utilizes our MRP system for automatic reordering when we drop below our minimum values. Show less



Interfacial Consultants LLC

• United States
• Veterinary Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

  River Falls, Wisconsin, United States I support a laminating press operation in a number of different ways. I help production and engineering troubleshoot process and equipment problems. I am the main point of contact for equipment upgrades and new equipment to ensure the proper specifications are set and that everything is sized properly. I help foster a continuous improvement atmosphere by working with the operators to understand and improve their daily struggles through a variety of means.



3M

• Germany
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Manufacturing Engineer

  • Feb 2019 - Dec 2020

  Menomonie, WI I support an adhesive coating line making industrial tapes as well converting them into finished goods. I continually look for new ways to improve the process, ensure product specifications are met and work with quality when we have customer complaints. I work to better the process through: continuous improvement, attending kaizens, improving safety, developing reliability schedules, improving yield and up-time and lead Lean Six Sigma projects.

• Senior Design Engineer

  • Jun 2013 - Jan 2019

  Maplewood MN As a Senior Design Engineer I designed capital equipment mainly supporting our Traffic Safety Division. I designed IP sensitive equipment, worked with many different web line vendors and contract engineering firms. I started projects developing project proposals (scope, cost, timeline) and saw them through to the finish of installing them in our plants.



Thiele Technologies

• United States
• Industrial Automation
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Design Project Student

  • 2013 - 2013

  A group of six students including myself worked with a local company called Thiele Technologies to redesign a bag magazine for a high-speed bagging machine. The goal of the project was to at least double the current capacity, with a stretch goal of quadrupling the capacity. Other design constraints included: manufacturing cost, keeping the machine footprint the same and keeping up with the rate of the bagging machine. We delivered a SolidWorks model of the full assembly along with supporting… Show more A group of six students including myself worked with a local company called Thiele Technologies to redesign a bag magazine for a high-speed bagging machine. The goal of the project was to at least double the current capacity, with a stretch goal of quadrupling the capacity. Other design constraints included: manufacturing cost, keeping the machine footprint the same and keeping up with the rate of the bagging machine. We delivered a SolidWorks model of the full assembly along with supporting materials such as: a BOM, drawings and analyses of the parts and assemblies. Show less



Andersen Windows

• United States
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manufacturing Enginnering Intern

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Bayport, MN I worked on two main projects: 1) providing a recommendation on how to standardize a current process for hanging door units 2) bringing in new equipment for a panel fabrication cell



Brookdale Plastics Incorporated

• Design Engineer Intern

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Plymouth, MN Worked on a cross-functional team of: engineers, quality assurance associates, sales associates, account managers, vendors, customers and production operators designing thermoforming packages. I also designed a layout of an enginnering room along with making prototypes of the thermoforming packages.