Professional experience
From the engineering office and control room to running a rendering plant, then into graduate research and teaching.
Grader, ISyE 315 Production Planning & Control
Grade and coach students in a required production planning course.
Key responsibilities
- Grade homework, quizzes, and projects for a required production planning course.
- Coach students one-on-one on Lean, lead time, cycle time, and process capability.
- Explain each method and its assumptions so students can apply it on their own.
- Review regrade requests with written feedback on calculations and interpretation.
- Assess DMAIC, SPC control charts, Cpk, EOQ, S&OP, and job sequencing.
Skills applied
Graduate Researcher
Developing 3D printing and sintering processes for ceramic heat shields used on aerospace parts.
- ~80%less manual data-processing time
- 10,000+data points analyzed per prototype
Key responsibilities
- Develop 3D printing and sintering processes for ceramic heat shields for aerospace applications.
- Run designed experiments (DOE) on temperature, speed, and sintering settings.
- Analyze 10,000+ thermal images and process data points per prototype to trace process deviation and improve print consistency.
- Built Python tools that cut manual data-processing time by about 80%.
- Work to improve dimensional accuracy for advanced high-temperature applications.
Skills applied
Production Supervisor
Led the rendering plant team, converting poultry by-products into meal and fat while improving throughput, waste, quality, and safety.
- +20%throughput
- −10%process waste
- 30+operators across three shifts
Key responsibilities
- Oversaw a rendering plant processing ~45 t/day of by-products.
- Coordinated daily with the 100,000+ bird/day chicken processing plant on raw material volume and timing.
- Led a 30+ person team across three shifts: scheduling, hiring, training, and performance reviews.
- Led Lean, capacity, and layout improvement projects.
- Partnered with management, maintenance, and quality on root-cause analysis, containment, KPIs, SOPs, and production targets.
- Upheld HACCP, GMP, and audits; enforced LOTO, confined space, and hot work permits.
Skills applied
Control Room Operator
Ran automated feed production from the control room, from raw material intake to bagging and loadout.
- ~30%less downtime from cross-functional root-cause investigations
Key responsibilities
- Operated the automated feed mill through SCADA/HMI, from raw material intake to finished-product bagging and loadout.
- Verified batch weights, ran scale calibration, and pulled quality-control samples.
- Held suspect batches pending lab results and followed medicated-feed flushing to prevent cross-contamination.
- Tracked silo, bin, and ingredient inventory in SAP to support production planning.
- Led cross-functional root-cause investigations and maintenance follow-up.
Skills applied
Engineer Intern
Supported the engineering team at a feed mill with layout, capacity, maintenance, and safety studies.
- ~20%less downtime, supported by preventive maintenance and reliability work
Key responsibilities
- Performed facility layout analysis and process flow mapping to cut manual handling.
- Ran time studies and production capacity analysis on production lines.
- Built preventive maintenance plans and reliability analysis.
- Conducted safety inspections and risk assessments.
- Drafted SOPs for new equipment and presented findings to management.