Biography
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Born and raised in the beautiful mountains of northern New Mexico, I had the experience of growing up in a small town with a heavy concentration of science and engineering professionals. My engineering studies began in high school where I filled my schedule with engineering, robotics, programming, automotive and architecture classes. I attended New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology(NMT) where I graduated with honors and received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.
At NMT my 2 year long capstone project was to design and build an off-road vehicle for the SAE Mini-Baja competition. During my first year, I worked on suspension design. The next year of this project I was chosen as the team leader. I organized the team to construct a new vehicle with emphasis on weight reduction and reliability. That year, at the competition in El Paso TX, we were rewarded with the best ranking our school had achieved in over a decade.
While I was studying at NMT, I spent my summer and winter breaks working as an intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos New Mexico. I worked in Weapons Division (W-16) on projects related to the reliability and readiness of legacy national defense equipment. The team I worked with was an interdisciplinary team comprised of mostly engineers, chemists, and fabricators. As an ME intern I used Solidworks, PTC Creo, and Ansys to design and evaluate pressure vessels and related systems. I also ran practical experiments and flow rate studies.
After graduating from NMT in the spring of 2014 I immediately began work for Electroimpact Inc in Mukilteo, WA. Electroimpact is an aircraft assembly automation OEM currently building the most advanced carbon fiber placement systems in the world. For a little over five years, I worked on many different projects exercising a variety of engineering disciplines to provide our customers with equipment of unmatched performance and quality. In my time at Electroimpact I learned how to effectively plan and execute large projects in a short time frame. I went from being a bright-eyed junior engineer to a leader and mentor. I had the opportunity to work with and learn from engineers with the highest experience in the industry.
At Schmalz USA I joined a small team of engineers to develop custom end-of-arm tooling for automated vacuum gripping systems. My experience in industrial automation design served me well as the most experienced designer on the team. We developed custom solution for packing and sorting systems on the tightest timelines in the industry. I took what time I could find to try to improve the teams efficiency and raise the standards of quality in design. One side project that I perused, on my own volition, resulted in a new patent awarded to me and a new component product line (both firsts for the USA branch of Schmalz).
Seeking out further opportunities to apply my understanding of machine design and automation, I joined a yet even smaller engineering team at Redbud Labs. Harnessing a novel microfluidic technology, we were well suited to bring some much needed automation into hard working life science laboratories. My position was lead design engineer for the Redbud NA1, the nuts and bolts and wires and pumps that manage to automate bead assays with the press of one button.
Developing a brand new laboratory instrument is seriously hard to do. We toiled over every detail and with prototype after prototype we made improvements in strides. Our device now is now proudly in use in a handful of laboratories, streamlining workflows of critical importance.
Born and raised in the beautiful mountains of northern New Mexico, I had the experience of growing up in a small town with a heavy concentration of science and engineering professionals. My engineering studies began in high school where I filled my schedule with engineering, robotics, programming, automotive and architecture classes. I attended New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology(NMT) where I graduated with honors and received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.
At NMT my 2 year long capstone project was to design and build an off-road vehicle for the SAE Mini-Baja competition. During my first year, I worked on suspension design. The next year of this project I was chosen as the team leader. I organized the team to construct a new vehicle with emphasis on weight reduction and reliability. That year, at the competition in El Paso TX, we were rewarded with the best ranking our school had achieved in over a decade.
While I was studying at NMT, I spent my summer and winter breaks working as an intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos New Mexico. I worked in Weapons Division (W-16) on projects related to the reliability and readiness of legacy national defense equipment. The team I worked with was an interdisciplinary team comprised of mostly engineers, chemists, and fabricators. As an ME intern I used Solidworks, PTC Creo, and Ansys to design and evaluate pressure vessels and related systems. I also ran practical experiments and flow rate studies.
After graduating from NMT in the spring of 2014 I immediately began work for Electroimpact Inc in Mukilteo, WA. Electroimpact is an aircraft assembly automation OEM currently building the most advanced carbon fiber placement systems in the world. For a little over five years, I worked on many different projects exercising a variety of engineering disciplines to provide our customers with equipment of unmatched performance and quality. In my time at Electroimpact I learned how to effectively plan and execute large projects in a short time frame. I went from being a bright-eyed junior engineer to a leader and mentor. I had the opportunity to work with and learn from engineers with the highest experience in the industry.
At Schmalz USA I joined a small team of engineers to develop custom end-of-arm tooling for automated vacuum gripping systems. My experience in industrial automation design served me well as the most experienced designer on the team. We developed custom solution for packing and sorting systems on the tightest timelines in the industry. I took what time I could find to try to improve the teams efficiency and raise the standards of quality in design. One side project that I perused, on my own volition, resulted in a new patent awarded to me and a new component product line (both firsts for the USA branch of Schmalz).
Seeking out further opportunities to apply my understanding of machine design and automation, I joined a yet even smaller engineering team at Redbud Labs. Harnessing a novel microfluidic technology, we were well suited to bring some much needed automation into hard working life science laboratories. My position was lead design engineer for the Redbud NA1, the nuts and bolts and wires and pumps that manage to automate bead assays with the press of one button.
Developing a brand new laboratory instrument is seriously hard to do. We toiled over every detail and with prototype after prototype we made improvements in strides. Our device now is now proudly in use in a handful of laboratories, streamlining workflows of critical importance.