Experience¶

Technical Lead, Cooling Pumps¶

Dates:: January 2024 - Present
Company:: Radford, VA

Responsible for directing and resourcing technical activities in cooling pump value stream. In this role, I have been able to lead a multi-disciplinary team of engineers through improvements to current products as well as future products within the data center cooling pumps value stream.

Implement data-driven design, analysis, and test to reduce risk in design efforts
- Implement Monte-Carlo based tolerance analysis
- Convert manufacturing yields into actionable results
- Develop feature-based validation plans
- Utilize experience gained in manufacturing and operations to create manufacturable designs
Define engineering deliverables and delivery dates
Mentor individuals within the group of all disciplines
Establish common coding practices across the group
- Establish GitHub pull requests as the way to change code
- Establish standard release practices
- Implement code reviews
- Establish onboarding guides for software installations, style, workflows, etc.
Establish product roadmaps
Electrical, firmware, and mechanical design as needed

Operations Engineering Manager¶

Dates:: August 2023 - January 2024
Company:: Radford, VA

Responsible for accomplishing strategic production goals through planning, resource alignment, and development of internal technical resources. I have been able to re-align the group along the value streams while also re-engaging low-performing resources.

Training and level-up of individuals and groups
Address day-to-day production urgencies
Re-align test engineering resources to the highest potential opportunities
Align manufacturing support personnel along value streams
Implement data-driven activities
Increase visibility into day-to-day operation
Forge tighter relationships between manufacturing engineering, production, and key customers
Advise and assist site management as-needed regarding quality, data, history, and processes

Continuous Improvement Lead¶

Dates:: June 2022 - August 2023
Company:: Radford, VA

Responsible for identifying and implementing improvements and change throughout the organization using formal and informal means with little supervision or guidance. In this role, I have been able to distinguish myself as a capable leader with vision in the organization from the conference room to the production floor.

Identify opportunities for improvement
Prioritize opportunities by effort vs impact
Write & deploy automated test
Design new production tools and processes
Re-organized production line product flow to aid scaling up and reduce waste
Identify & implement equipment purchase, from the mundane to capital
Write custom user-facing software for tracking facility maintenance
Educate and mentor other members of the organization, formally and informally
Documentation at all levels
Statistical analysis and modeling

Design Engineering Manager¶

Dates:: Oct 2020 - June 2022
Company:: Radford, VA

Responsible for technical leadership and management of engineering department.

Modernize documentation processes throughout the facility
Implement more formal design processes
Plan and coordinate strategic department goals (i.e. training, process)
Primary engineering contact for customers, internally
Advise various on-site departments with regard to data management, analytics
Unify site manufacturing data formats to enable statistical process control
Create and distribute tools for statistical process control

Electrical Engineering Manager¶

Dates:: Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
Company:: Radford, VA

Responsible for technical leadership and management of electrical engineering department.

Modernize and improve firmware release processes
Improve productivity of direct reports through exposure

to new techniques and technologies * Advise project managers as to the technical capabilities, workloads, and relative workload of the department * Improve data visibility and data literacy of the organization by requiring automated testing for throughout the design and deployment cycle * Develop automated test equipment to replace aging technologies * Implement informal professional development environment through lunch ‘n learn activities

Electrical and Firmware Design Engineer¶

Dates:: Dec 2007 - Jan 2019
Company:: Blacksburg, VA

Responsible for all aspects of electrical design (schematic, layout, and software) for brushless DC and permanent-magnet synchronous motors. Also responsible for documentation of product along with production support.

Create firmware for real-time applications, primarily motor control, using C and assembly on:
- TI MSP430 series (16-bit)
- Microchip dsPIC33 series (16-bit)
- STMicro STM32 series (ARM 32-bit)
- Limited exposure to other platforms
Apply standards such as DO-160, DO-178 to designs
Improve development workflow for the group by shifting group

from directory control into a source control software * Improve design documentation activities by implementing reports to be attached to engineering change processes * Improve design quality by implementing design checklists for schematics, layouts, and components * Apply fundamental reliability techniques, including Weibull analysis * Develop automated test equipment for my product lines

Electronics Repair Technician¶

Dates:: May 2007 - Dec 2007
Company:: Advanced Electronic Services; Mt. Airy, NC

Component-level diagnosis and repair of uninterruptable power supply board modules with ratings ranging between 2kVA to 800kVA utilizing benchtop troubleshooting equipment, such as oscilloscope, curve tracer, and multimeter.

Acquire basic soldering proficiency (through-hole, surface-mount)
Learn the fundamentals of three-phase power
Learn and apply troubleshooting techniques
- Bench-top curve-tracer, “Huntron Tracker”
- Component identification & replacement

Fire Support Specialist, Artillery¶

Dates:: August 2000 - August 2004
Company:: United States Army; Multiple Locations

Call for, observe, and correct indirect fire from artillery batteries. Advised command-level entities of fire support asset capabilities and availability. Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 2nd Battalion 320th Field Artillery 101st Airborne Division 2003 to 2004.

Develop land navigation skills through training
Air-Assult Qualified
Show up to work on-time
Develop perspective