Experience

NSL Analytical Services, Inc.

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Metallurgist

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Primary Responsibilities: 1. Lab Activities: • Performs a variety of Metallurgical lab duties, ensuring the overall efficiency of the laboratory. • Performs routine metallographic analysis and related activities. • SEM analysis in performance of routine metallography and failure analysis. • Provides training on an as-needed basis. • Approval of test reports that include metallographic features not covered by acceptance standards. • Prepares technical reports utilizing established methods and techniques in Failure Analysis and Metallurgical reporting. • Maintain SOPs and makes method revisions and additions, as required, in coordination with Chief/Senior Metallurgist, Operations Director, Quality Manager and laboratory staff as appropriate. • Interface with LIMS for the entry and approval of metallurgical test data and reports. 2. Customer Service: • Provide general customer service to clients ensuring positive and proactive customer relations. • Serves as a technical liaison to our customers and responds to client calls of this nature. • Supplies technical information to sales department regarding capabilities and testing methods. Secondary Responsibilities: • Performs analyses in conjunction with metallurgical technicians and SEM Operation. • Approval of test reports that include metallographic features not covered by acceptance standards. • Onboarding and training of incoming Metallurgical Technicians. Show less



Lincoln Electric

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Additive Manufacturing Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - May 2023

  Process Development & Improvement: • Perform welding procedure qualifications in accordance with ASME BPVC-IX and new Code Case 3020 for Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). • Generate procedure qualification records and create new welding procedures to support production WAAM operations that require compliance with ASME BPVC-IX. • Coordinate welding operator qualifications for all personnel and maintain all documentation and records for traceability and compliance with ASME BPVC-IX. • Develop and improve welding process parameters for WAAM with both a customer-driven and continuous improvement focus. Production Support & Design Engineering: • Use both CAD and Lincoln Electric’s proprietary weld pathing software (SculptPrintTM) to generate layered models and RGCODE needed to 3-D print parts and test coupons for customers. • Set up robotic weld cells to 3-D print customer parts using WAAM and also operate robotic weld cells during manual interventions. • Provide engineering technical support for the shop floor in order to maintain part production schedules to meet customer delivery deadlines. • Support production as needed with other operations such as grinding, cutting, part cleaning, preventative maintenance service, forklift operation, and rigging. • Create technical documentation, work instructions, and safety guidelines as needed as the business and workforce slowly scales up from R&D to part manufacturing. • Commitment to both safety on the shop floor and part quality at all times. Show less



Newport News Shipbuilding, A Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Welding Engineer

  • Jul 2017 - Mar 2021

  Robotics and Automation Team: • Provided welding specification and welding technical expertise for multiple National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) and DOD Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech) projects to help develop and implement robotic and automatic welding technologies for shipbuilding applications. • Devised equipment evaluation plan to test collaborative robots for GENEDGE Prototyping Project. • Developed weld programs and essential parameters for robotic multi-pass welding of standard military joints for a feasibility study funded through Independent Research and Development (IRAD). • Provided welding technical support for existing robotic and mechanized welding work centers at the Steel Production Facility where structural panels are fabricated for carrier new construction, i.e. CVN 80 (U.S.S. Enterprise) and CVN 79 (U.S.S. John F. Kennedy). Field Engineering Group: • Resolved welding issues and provided welding technical support for carrier new construction, i.e. CVN 80 (U.S.S. Enterprise) and CVN 79 (U.S.S. John F. Kennedy). • Initiated and managed lab projects to support production needs or process improvement efforts. Procedures Group: • Managed supplier weld qualifications and weld procedures for compliance with Navy welding specifications and fabrication requirements. • Submitted supplier weld qualifications to Supervisor of Shipbuilding for Navy approval. Show less



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2016

  High-Energy Ball Milling Research: • Used to fabricate cemented carbide (WC-8wt.%Co) powder that were consolidated into bulk samples via cold compaction and vacuum sintering. • Used to fabricate amorphous soft magnetic Co-Fe-Si-B-Cr powders that were consolidated into bulk amorphous samples via spark plasma sintering (SPS) and combustion driven compaction (CDC). Additive Manufacturing Research: • Studied the use of powder-based 3-D printing to create bulk samples using commercial grade cemented carbide (WC-Co) powder. • Learned how to use an ExOne binder jetting 3-D printer for rapid prototyping Laboratory Work: • Utilized materials characterization methods including X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersion Spectroscopy (EDS), Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) laser scattering particle size analysis, and optical microscopy. Show less

• Capstone Design

  • Aug 2012 - May 2013

  • Performed in-stream inoculation to produce ductile iron at the Kroehling Advanced Materials Foundry (VT FIRE). • Utilized both metallographic analysis and image analysis to determine the effect of different inoculants on the as-cast microstructure (i.e. nodularity, nodule count, and ferrite/pearlite content). • Capstone project was published and presented at MS&T: J. Tang, D. Zimmer. J. Carwile, R. Kay, A. Druschitz, “In-Stream Inoculation of Ductile Iron,” MS&T Conference Proceedings, Montreal (Oct. 2013). Show less