About Me
Mechanical Engineer with over 7 years of expertise in mechanical design, complemented by 2 years of software development experience. Demonstrated success in leading complex engineering projects, mentoring junior engineers, and implementing innovative solutions through both mechanical design and custom software tools. Proficient in various CAD systems and programming languages, bringing a unique blend of mechanical engineering fundamentals and modern technical solutions. Seeking to leverage my comprehensive engineering background and leadership experience to drive technical excellence and process improvement within your organization.
Experience
Vehicles For Life
●Lead responsible for the continued design and development of the ambulance Wheeled Coach brand.
●Designed new ambulance brand, Redimedic, from concept to build in collaboration with senior engineering staff.
●Revamped review process to create clear documentation of design requirements, allowing for higher quality reviews and an efficient onboarding experience for junior engineers to better understand specific design criteria.
●Trained/mentored several junior engineers through technical guidance, peer review, and hands-on training.
●Automated AutoCAD dxf generation utilizing Lisp and VBA to automatically export shelf packages to production.
●Revised various ISO controlled documentation to improve clarity of information.
●Worked with customers and dealers to generate solutions to highly customizable design criteria.
●Interpreted contracts and specifications to determine feasibility and advise on customer requests.
●Provided solutions to critical production issues through hands-on analysis of ambulances on the factory floor.
●Reviewed final assembly release packages to ensure design quality prior to production start.
●Designed over 350 unique ambulance exteriors across six independent brands for body fabrication utilizing CREO.
●Created over 2200 assembly drawings utilizing CREO and AutoCAD to generate production packages.
●Designed custom Java applications to improve team productivity and design quality. ◦ REV Engineering Search Tool created to easily find truck files, drawings, dxf’s, and contracts in one place. ◦ Transmittal Review software to automate the comparison of release packages to CREO models.
Professional Projects
REV Engineering Search Tool (REST)
Many companies fall into haphazard file structures that accumulate over the years, the REST desktop application was the solution to this issue.
Summary:
REST provides a central tool to quickly locate engineering related files.
This project began as a series of locator scripts written in python as command-line tool-suite. After picking up Java, that initial idea was rolled into this desktop application. It has been fully refactored thrice over the past few years. It currently saves our team about 20 hours per week.
Features include:
●Light/Dark mode
●Ability to find drawing, dxf, and truck files
●Ability to open files directly OR open file location
●Autocomplete functionality to find truck by name or number in case of partial information
●Queryable pseudo-database to find units that contain part number(s) (currently unavailable from company parts database)
Technologies utilized:
JavaFX; SceneBuilder; Maven; Launch4j
Transmittal Review
One of the simplest mistakes that have large implications to production is transcription errors. With each release having up to 50 drawings and engineers trying to keep both the model and documentation in sync throughout the design process, these errors were not uncommon. The Transmittal Review program was designed to eliminate this issue.
Summary:
Transmittal Review provides a instant comparisons between CAD models and Transmittal(Excel) documentation.
Features include:
●Light/Dark mode
●Stateful settings
●Autogenerated default settings and default transmittal layout files
●Flexible transmittal structure, allowing anyone to make a structured json for the application to use to gather information from potential future transmittal layouts.
●Ability to compare CAD to Excel
●Ability to compare CAD to CAD
●Ability to compare Excel to Excel
●Built in hyperlinks to open any existing drawings
Technologies utilized:
JavaFX; SceneBuilder; Maven; Launch4j
Open Source Projects
With the retirement of EDDB.io a void in the Elite Dangerous 3rd Party tooling network has been created. EDPN is a FOSS successor to that project.
Summary:
This is a collaborative effort from the community and is a full stack microservice orchestration. This website is proposed to provide data to people playing Elite Dangerous. This service works in tandem with the Elite Dangerous Data Network (EDDN), an open-source extension to in game plugins that broadcasts all player discoveries through a ZeroMQ server. A Kafka buffer is used to collect all incoming messages from this server into topics based on their schema. They are picked up by processors to be inserted into our database. This information is then presented through our REST API. I am one of the core developers for the backend, focusing on schema orchestration and REST API implementation.
Proposed features include:
●Trade route plotting
●Finders for systems, stations, bodies based on: material, commodity, faction, outfitting
●Route mapping through out the simulated universe
●Celestial body information
Technologies utilized:
Spring; Gradle; Kafka; PostgreSQL; Mybatis; Liquibase; Github; Docker
Sessionless is an authentication protocol that obviates the need for a personal identifier like email, and a known secret like a password.
Summary: Sessionless is an attempt to make authentication handling easier for developers and users, while also enabling interesting behavior not possible with traditional sessions. No emails, no passwords, and no sessions, just establish auth and get going.
Proposed features include:
●Authorized account creation without requiring email
●Implementation of delegatable anonymous credentials.
●Message Passing
●Device Linking
Technologies utilized:
Spring; Gradle; PostgreSQL; Mybatis; Liquibase; Github; Docker; Secp256k1 encryption
Education
University of Central Florida
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering
2013 - 2017
"Integrity, scholarship, community, creativity, and excellence"
Society of Automotive Engineering - BAJA
Member of BAJA SAE, a team dedicated to designing, manufacturing, and racing off-road vehicles in the annual internation competitions with other universities. I was a core member of this team from October 2015 up until I graduated.
Senior Design Project - NASA
Designed pneumatic transportation system for NASA’s Regolith Excavation challenge. System was designed to collect regolith from collection bins and deliver it back into the excavation area for redistribution.