Experience

Women in 3D Printing

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

• Ambassador

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Phoenix, Arizona, United States



PADT, Inc.

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

• Senior Application Engineer

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  Tempe AZ I help customers identify additive manufacturing solutions to their prototyping and production challenges, with a focus on FDM and PolyJet technologies from Stratasys. Every day brings something different: there's always new hardware, software and materials to understand and it's a great feeling to help move someone's project forward.


SME
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• Senior Member

  • Jun 1998 - Present

Society of Women Engineers
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee
• Senior Member

  • 1983 - Present


Digital Engineering magazine

• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Contributing Editor

  • 1997 - Oct 2018

  Freelance Contributing Editor - special topics include Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Simulation and Analysis (FEA and CFD), Digital Prototyping and 3D Scanning/Data Manipulation



EngineeringInk Technical Editorial Services

• President

  • 1990 - Oct 2018

  I helped clients present technical information in a highly readable manner to current and potential clients, whether peer engineers or non-technical project members. Products included trade articles, white papers, reports, brochures and webpage content. Services included editing and website evaluation.



BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC.

• Sr. Technical Writer/Marketing Analyst

  • 1987 - 1991

  Researched and wrote articles, brochures, white papers, annual reports, business plans, market analysis newsletter, and customer success stories about parallel-processing computers, for national publications, internal use, and marketing requirements.



EPSCO INC

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Microwave Development Engineer

  • 1985 - 1986

  Developed TWT transmitter for new line of commercial microwave communications products. Researched market and wrote business plan/operational spec for 75W, 14 GHz SATCOM system. Designed and built custom switching power-supply on fast-track project, including several prototype 6KV, six-output transformers. Worked with staff to design CMOS logic control circuitry. Supervised junior engineer and technician.



The MITRE Corporation

• Member of the Technical Staff

  • 1980 - 1985

  Researched technical feasibility and risk factors of millimeter-wave components for EHF SATCOM (MILSTAR, NESP, SCOTT) systems. Represented Air Force at government/contractor design reviews concerning TWTs, solid-state amplifiers, phased-array and parabolic antennas. Determined link budgets, wrote performance specifications, and evaluated proposals for $100M contracts. Provided technical direction for integration design of SATCOM terminals on B-1B, and VC-137 aircraft. Wrote test plan and… Show more Researched technical feasibility and risk factors of millimeter-wave components for EHF SATCOM (MILSTAR, NESP, SCOTT) systems. Represented Air Force at government/contractor design reviews concerning TWTs, solid-state amplifiers, phased-array and parabolic antennas. Determined link budgets, wrote performance specifications, and evaluated proposals for $100M contracts. Provided technical direction for integration design of SATCOM terminals on B-1B, and VC-137 aircraft. Wrote test plan and managed program for performance evaluation of LPC digital voice processor in high ambient-noise aircraft. Established and supervised millimeter-wave test lab. Presented numerous briefings and authored dozens of classified reports on EHF technology and TWTs. Show less



Raytheon

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Microwave Engineer

  • 1979 - 1980

  Waltham MA Designed modifications to microwave traveling wave tube amplifiers; verified with computer simulations. Supervised manufacturing (tooling, assembly, brazing) and electrical testing of two radar TWT models.