Personal experience

2007 to present, mentor since 2011

FIRST Robotics

Engineering, design and strategy mentor

Mentor for FRC 272 Cyber Crusaders since 2020, and FRC 103 Cybersonics from 2011 to 2020 after competing as a student. Also FTC 14133 and FTC 23598. Wrote and teaches a CAD and mechanical design curriculum.

Tools
CAD	Onshape, SolidWorks
Manufacturing	In-house CNC with CAM templates I set up
Teaching	A CAD and mechanical design course I wrote

2007 FIRST Robotics Mentorship Fifteen years mentoring high school robotics teams in engineering, design, and strategy, after four years as a student on one.

Sep 2011 to Dec 2016

Penn State

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

me.psu.edu

Tools
CAD	SolidWorks
Prototyping	3D printing, Arduino electronics, carbon fiber

2016 3-D Printed Rocket A SolidWorks class final project that flew the highest in the class, and left time to help classmates with theirs.
2016 UAV-Mounted Meteorological Data Acquisition A senior capstone replacing single-use weather balloon instruments with a recoverable sensor package on a quadcopter.
2015 Drill to Vacuum Conversion A class project that turned a power drill into a vacuum by designing the whole flow path, and picked up twice as much as the next team.

2017 to 2025

Personal projects

2025 Winch-Driven Lifting Boom Redesigning a working, one-off utility vehicle hoist into a drawing package that outside fabricators could quote.
2021 CIM-Powered Belt Sander A belt sander designed around surplus robotics motors, and a cost analysis that convinced me not to build it.
2017 Aquaponic Farm Filter and Solar Charger, Eswatini New solids-separating filters for a small aquaponic farm's systems, built from hardware store parts, plus a more efficient solar charging setup.