Design Engineer

• Feb 2023 - Present

Custom Products Engineer II

• Jan 2019 - Feb 2023

• Senior Engineer for projects at all stages after sale through installation.• Manage Request for Information queue.• Provide technical support and guidance for all departments (Estimating, Project Management, Drafting, Manufacturing) through Requests for Information.• Coordinate and troubleshoot with external engineering firms to produce sealed calculations and shop drawings as needed.• Ensure skylights are compliant with respective codes and regulations.• Perform structural calculations to ensure integrity of designs utilizing RISA (FEA), Windows Glass Design, and hand calculations. Show less

Engineer

• May 2017 - Jan 2019

• Design skylight to meet customer specifications and produce manufacturing blueprints using Solidworks.• Coordinate with Project Management, Production, and Outside Vendors to ensure orders are completed on time and below estimated costs.• Assist manufacturing in troubleshooting issues that arise during production.• Provide estimating and customer service support as needed through RFI's.• Determine design loads and respective combinations from appropriate codes.• Produce skylight reactions on supporting structures using RISA (FEA). Show less

Design Engineer

• May 2016 - May 2017

• Design/re-design existing commercial product families in accordance with regulatory standards. • Root Cause Analysis of failures during compliance testing to applicable regulatory standards. • Provide technical support and assisted in Corrective Actions associated with Root Cause Analyses. • Determined test schedules of products to demonstrate product compliance with government standards, specific performance characteristics dictated in customer contracts, and to prove effectiveness of designs and Corrective Actions. • Update, create, and revise product drawings, specifications, and processes. • Provide test lab support or perform compliance tests as needed. Show less

Customer Engineer

• Jun 2011 - May 2016

• Design skylight to meet customer specifications and produce manufacturing blueprints using Solidworks. • Coordinate with Project Management, Production, and Outside Vendors to ensure orders are completed on time and below estimated costs. • Assist manufacturing in troubleshooting issues that arise during production. • Provide estimating and customer service support as needed. • Participated in multidisciplinary design review meetings to evaluate company processes, review complicated orders, and new products. • Collaborated with IT Department on developing a program to automate and improve processes currently completed by Engineering Department using Solidworks. Show less

Research Assistant

• Sep 2009 - Oct 2010

• Design a mechanism that passively emulates a human finger’s variable compliance by relating the shape of the joint and tendon driven torque that acts on the joint. • Created preliminary mechanism design and simulated joint torque and stiffness performance using Matlab and Mathematica (computational software with its own programming language). • Researched and applied principles from a variety of thesis papers and topics. • Performed demonstrations within the lab for campus tours . Show less

Laboratory Research Assistant

• Nov 2008 - May 2009

• Accumulated stress test data from tension tests over a single axis using a hydraulic MTS machine and a crank operated biaxial test, both tests used the application of Photogrammetry for determining strain data. • Reviewed ASTM standards and adapted tests to demonstrate accordance with the industry standards. • Accumulated stress test data from tension tests over a single axis using a hydraulic MTS machine and a crank operated biaxial test, both tests used the application of Photogrammetry for determining strain data. • Reviewed ASTM standards and adapted tests to demonstrate accordance with the industry standards.