Education:

BS Mechanical Engineering with Minor in Design. May 1996.

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Cumulative GPA: 3.2 / 4.0

Professional Experience:

Applications Engineer, Cognex Corporation. Alameda, California.

Commissioning, Applications engineering, and Technical support of ultra-high speed, real-time machine vision systems for surface inspection of web materials including steel, non-ferrous metals, paper, and non-woven materials. Region of focus: South Korea, Japan, Northeastern US. February, 1997 to Present.

• "President's Team Award" recipient, 1997. Received the highest award at Cognex for managing a multi-departmental engineering project at world's largest steel producer.
• Lead instructor in customer training courses of 5-8 days in length after 4 months' employment.

 

 

• Involved in development, testing, and documentation of proprietary "self-learning" classification tools.

 

 

Analysis of steel forging and extrusion operations using Finite Element software, including verification of simulation methodologies with laboratory experimentation. Compiled English language software guide for CAE program. Summer, 1996.

Intern, Bolton Corporation.

Involvement in Commercial/Institutional HVAC operations at four sites. Duty areas included: Safety, Installation, Demolition, and limited Project Management. Raleigh, NC. Summer 1995, 1994.

Projects:

Development of methodology for 2-D FEM application to 3-D steel forging operations involving plastic flow, analysis of product quality problem origins, and general analysis of industrial extrusion operations.

Design leader of a seven person team that conceptualized, designed, fabricated, and delivered a versatile deflashing machine prototype for plastic blow-molded cases to Flambeau Airmold Corporation.

Computer Skills:

UNIX (SunOS, Solaris) and Windows NT system administration, PRO/Engineer, MATLAB, FE analysis, FORTRAN 77, MS Office, Interleaf, Clarify.

Honors:

Secretary, San Francisco Section of ASME, 1997-1998.

Coordinator, ASME Region IV Student Conference, 1996.

Finalist, ASME International Student Manufacturing Design Contest, 1995.