Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• Lead team of industrial designers through development of 17+ market leading hardware products for competitive Volkswagen Group and Ford aftermarket performance part industries • Advise hardware team on engineering and design decisions to guide output quality • Integrate feedback from and communicate directly with CEO, Product Development Director, and overseas vendors to ensure project completion • Built new product development cycle to decrease development lead time by 50% • Facilitate and conduct long-term field testing to verify product safety factor and performance of 15+ automotive aftermarket products • Develop repeatable quality control processes for production runs of 10+ problematic components to secure product release timelines • Represent Integrated Engineering at national and regional automotive conventions and shows including SEMA, Wasatch Euro Fest, and Salt Lake Off-Road Expo • Communicate directly with customers and beta testers to quantify product performance and user satisfaction • Collaborate with marketing department to elevate marketing media through data collection, website content, and video appearances • The Ultimate VW MK8 Golf R & GTI Mod Journey [youtube.com/watch?v=jQSi8X5Xswk]
• Design 15 novel suspension, engine, exhaust, intercooler, and intake products for Ford F-150, F-150 Raptor, and Ranger Raptor; Volkswagen GTI, Golf R, and GLI; and Audi A3, S3, A4, S4, A5, and S5 platforms • Built new Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) performance prediction system to verify market leading product performance early in product development cycle • Optimize airflow performance of product development team’s designs through iterative CFD paralleled design • Modify product development team’s designs for manufacturability and value engineering to actualize product concepts • Collect, analyze, and present engineering data, performance data, and 3D scans of prototype, sample, production, and OEM parts to facilitate product design and validation • Create engineering drawings of designed components with appropriate tolerances, materials, and manufacturing methods
• Design lowering springs using Spring Calculator Professional • Design wiring harnesses using KiCad • Create engineering drawings • Use SolidWorks, 3D printing, and sheet metal fabrication for rapid prototyping and data collection • Design experiment to measure cornering body roll using Arduino • Perform experiments using dynamometer to gather intercooler temperature and pressure data • Design experiment on radiator efficiency in a controlled setting and a racing setting • Collect data on engine hardware clamping force • Collect temperature data to determine exhaust resonator geometry • Perform flow bench data collection for design decisions and use in marketing material • Design HVAC systems for use in dynamometer room • Critique samples and compare them to engineering drawings
• Developing MATLAB software for analysis of microscopy images to quantify data on fluorescence • Provide updates and support for users of existing MATLAB software at Emory University that provides stiffness data from ultrasound images • Presented poster at Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021, poster #38 titled Establishing Methods for Evaluating Biomechanical Properties of Vascular Tissue • Published third author paper: Collagen Molecular Damage is a Hallmark of Early Atherosclerosis Development [doi.org/10.1007/s12265-022-10316-y] • Establishing procedure for staining vascular tissue with collagen hybridizing peptides to help further laboratory's understanding of collagen hybridizing peptides • Harvesting vascular tissue from mice for use in imaging and quantification experiments • Cleaning and preparing vascular tissue to ensure precise fluorescence data and high-quality images • Preparing and utilizing chemical solutions in staining, imaging, and assay procedures for accurate data collection • Imaging vascular tissue using widefield and confocal microscopes to provide lab with high quality, effective images for figures and use in software
• Designed suspension components in SolidWorks to create effective suspension geometry on car • Researched and chose cost-effective parts which allowed team to realistically assemble and upgrade car • Installed and tuned suspension components to assist in overall suspension functionality
• Founder of West High AP Calculus tutoring group for 2018-2019 school year to support calculus students • Tutored AP Calculus AB and BC students at West High School for success in class and AP tests