Land Pride

Router ⋇ November 2016 - Present

• Determine Fabrication and Welding standards, from research and analytics, for manufacturing processes and cost analysis
• Maintain cycle time and material usage calculations
• ProE/Creo, AutoCAD, IBM System i, Python, LaTeX, and Microsoft Office experience

Kansas State University

Animal Science and Industry

Assistant Scientist ⋇ June 2014 - May 2015

• Designed and created a bench-top Plate Heat Exchanger (bPHE)
• Restored a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) system
• Developed an in house Ultrasonic Flaw Detector. Included fabrication, LabVIEW programming, and GUI development.

Kansas State University

Physics Department

Research Assistant ⋇ August 2011 - May 2012

• Created a LabVIEW diagnostics monitoring program for the High Intensity Tunable Source (HITS).
• Duties included creating small electronics, LabVIEW coding, and general assistance with HITS research.

Kansas State University

Physics Department

Research Assistant ⋇ October 2010 - May 2011

• Upgraded Kansas Light Source (KLS) LabVIEW diagnostics monitoring program.
• Additional duties included beam path maintenance, assisting in data collection and analysis, and creating LabVIEW code for Lab optimization and research purposes.

Land Pride

Assembly Line Worker ⋇ May - August (2010 & 2011)
August 2008 - August 2009

• Memorized assembly of products, optimized stations for efficiency, and worked with pneumatic tools
• Maintained a high standard for quality, and trained station workers