| LAKESHORE FAB LAB – www.LakeshoreFabLab.com (MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE) Fab Lab Manager Dec. 2017 to Present |
- Key Achievement: Fostering the lab from a room full of equipment into a community of makers ranging from young students to entrepreneurs.
- Operating, maintaining and training members on equipment such as a laser cutter, 3D scanners, plasma cutter, CNC router, vinyl printer, and additive manufacturing technologies ranging from the hobbyist level such as the Prusa MK2S to a high-end Stratasys Fortus 450.
- Collaborating with local entrepreneurs, inventors and businesses to create solutions utilizing the fab lab resources.
- Promoting the lab and building up a membership basis of over 100 active members and a dozen technical volunteers.
- Creating and implementing marketing campaigns to increase membership and event attendance.
- Developing policies, procedures and curriculum for the lab.
- Managing volunteer and employee schedules and delegating lab tasks.
- Coordinating community events and STEAM classes.
- Completing administrative tasks such as website management, lab promotion via social media platforms and upkeep of member management software.
| 3DC19 – www.3dc19.com Co-Founder March 2020 to Present |
- Find and coordinate suppliers, vendors, and materials to make PPE.
- Tapping into my network I was able to recruit volunteers and companies to join the fight.
- Project management of people and processes. Making sure we had the right people helping with the right things at the right times. Ensuring that those individuals or companies had what they needed resource-wise.
- Assisted in the development of a plastic injection molded part to increase production numbers to meet the demand.
- 3D printer fleet tech support (i.e. answering technical 3D printing questions regarding software or equipment)
- Research and development on potential projects to move the 3D printing fleet
- Anything and everything needed, such as being a delivery driver, to running a laser for hours a day to cut plastic
| MI3D – www.mi3d.co Founder March 2017 to Present |
- Key Achievement: Develop a community of over 500+ members.
- Organize monthly meetings and other community events to bring people together to learn about various 3D technologies such as additive manufacturing, design, virtual reality, game development, and animation.
- Develop relationships with industry leaders such as Autodesk, Desktop Metal, and Ultimaker and local industry and professionals.
- Maintain the organization website including website design, writing blog posts, and creating promotional videos.
- Using social media and community outreach marketing to promote events
- Plan both small and large events with attendance ranging from 20 to 100 attendees.
| Crisco Designs – www.criscodesigns.co Owner February 2016 to Present |
- Key Achievement: Completing a Black Panther cosplay project for a charity event
- Manufacturing of prototypes, replica props and custom items using 3D printing.
- Providing engineering design support and analysis.
- Creating custom merchandise such as vinyl decals and screen-printed shirt designs.
| General Motors Designer (Contract) August 2016 to January 2018 |
- Key Achievement: Doubled the throughput for the deactivation lifter manufacturing lines.
- Designed automation equipment for manufacturing of engine components such as lash adjusters, roller hydraulic valve lifters, cylinder deactivation lifters, and cam phasers for Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac product lines.
- Provided the manufacturing floor with support in order to maintain production.
- Worked with plant management to improve their additive manufacturing capabilities.
- Reverse engineered legacy drawings, converting them into SolidWorks.
| Burton Precision – www.burtonprecision.com Application Engineer March 2016 to August 2016 |
- Key Achievement: Assisted a local hospital with 3D scan data to create custom 3D printed prosthetics.
- Trained in utilizing multiple additive manufacturing technologies such as the 3DP Platform, Markforged, and both the 3D Systems ProJet MJP and Cube series.
- Reverse engineering using CMM and 3D scanning technologies of tooling and consumers products.
- Manufacturing process control analysis using scanned parts to verify dimensions.
- Educated customers how to use products such as 3D printers and 3D scanners.
| Perception Engineering – www.perceptioneng.com Mechanical Designer (Contract) May 2015 to May 2016 |
- Key Achievement: Re-designed exhibits for the Gerald R. Ford museum that will be on display for many years to come.
- Designed manufacturing equipment and fixtures for the furniture, metal fabrication and medical industries.
- Product development, including starting from a napkin sketch or to design improvements of existing products such as the MOVE Systems food cart.
- Use of additive manufacturing to prototype designs for customers.
- Assisted in the development and implementation of work standards.
| JR Automation Technologies – www.jrautomation.com Mechanical Engineer II December 2012 to January 2016 |
- Key Achievement: Designed a robotic assembly line for a battery enclosure that goes to an electric vehicle. The station incorporated manual assembly, automated assembly and coordination with an AGV.
- Mechanical designer of advanced manufacturing equipment for the automotive, aerospace, medical and agricultural industries with various processes including: heat-staking, sonic welding, mechanical durability, hydraulic and pneumatic presses, adhesive application, mechanical assembly stations, material handling and robotic integration.
- Led the movement for the implementation of additive manufacturing technology to be used for prototyping complex nests, creating fixtures and jigs, as well as re-creating customer parts to be used in test runs of manufacturing equipment.
- Used Creo modeling tools such as surfacing, motion skeletons, FEA analysis and the sheet metal utility. As well as simulation tools such as FEA to verify strength and rigidity of designs and robotic cell simulations to verify placement.
| Steelcase Test Engineer (Contract) June 2012 to December 2012 |
- Key Achievement: Acquired additional responsibilities overseeing the environmental exposure and shipping simulation testing chambers.
- Set up experiments for mechanical durability/functionality on products and used data gathered from experiments to provide feedback to product and packaging engineers via written reports.
| Vention/ATEK Medical Manufacturing Engineer Intern December 2010 to June 2012 |
- Key Achievement: Successful launch of stem cell growth system of the AastromReplicell System. Includes creation of documentation and the manufacturing of fixtures and gauges for use on production lines.
- Worked on the new product development team that analyzed new projects and developed detailed manufacturing plans for implementation.
- Assisted in the machine shop to build and/or maintain manufacturing tooling/fixtures.
| Magna Mirrors Mechanical Engineer Intern May 2010 to December 2010 |
• Assisted the manufacturing engineers on the various assembly lines to ensure that the products were being manufactured properly.
• Performed experiments on production parts to verify compliance with Magna standards.
• Assisted with the development of operator manuals for the implementation of new production lines.
• Worked with the operators of the production equipment to increase safety, ease of use and production output.
• Experience with small mechanical design and build projects.
• Travel to customers overseas for production support.
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