building and leading.
Experience

Manufacturing Engineer: Ariel Corporation - Mount Vernon, OH (August 2015- Present)
Ensure quality as well as maintain low operating costs on the machine shop floor
while using ISO standards and Lean practices.

Sixth Shift Leadership
• Sixth Shift (5pm-5am) weekend supervisor and organization leadership
program.
• Supervise 17+ employees on the machine shop floor
• Observe and adjust process flow to meet the production schedule

Nonconformance Reports
• Maintained detailed logs of Internally and customer generated NCRs
• Facilitated process change to streamline production & maintain quality
standards
• Addressed and closed NCRs dating back to 2013

Manufacturing Support Co-op: GE Aviation - Greenville, SC. (June 2014- December 2014)
Ensured the quality of High Pressure Turbine blades throughout manufacturing.
Additional responsibilities included Lean and Plant Capacity Studies.

Plant Capacity Study:
• Performed plant wide capacity study to ensure optimum machine utilization
per line.
• Improved budget allocation up to the year 2022
• This tool helped to abate $500,000 of expenditure in capital equipment.

Microset Inspection Development:
• Project leader in the Research and development of the inspection
process used for inspecting airfoil diffuser holes at the GE Aviation
Greenville facility.
• Wrote a Standard Operating Procedure document to ensure repeatability
• Wrote a training profile to transition the process into daily plant operation.

Projects Six Sigma Project: Team Leader for three-person team: Determine Fatigue
characteristics of 1018 Cold Rolled Steel as defined by ANSI standards.
Electric Vehicle Team: Mechanical team member; Motorcycle Geometry
Leader.

Education Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering Technology
GPA: 3.26
Certification Green Belt Certification
Hobbies: I enjoy riding motorcycles as well as racing them. Throughout the years of riding, I
have had to perform many hours of maintenance to keep my motorcycles in race
ready condition. Coming from a mechanical family, I was taught the maintenance
basics from an early age. Below lists the various car and motorcycle projects I have
undertaken.

• 5+ top end rebuilds on a 2001 Yamaha YZ125 two cycle engine. This includes
engine tear down, replacement of piston and rings, and reassembly.

• 3 top and bottom end rebuilds on a 2005 Yamaha YZ125 and 2007 YZ250 two
cycle engine. This includes splitting the cases to expose transmission and
crank assemblies, piston and rings, clutch, and reassembly.

• 3 Top end rebuilds on a 2009 Kawasaki YZ250F dual overhead cam 4 cycle
engine. This includes piston and ring replacement, correcting the valve
clearance using varying shim thicknesses, and reassembly.

• Top end rebuild on a 2008 Kawasaki KX450F.

• Wheel bearings, swing arm bearings, linkage bearings, and upper shock
bushing replacements on all bikes.

• Complete frame off restoration of a 1968 Honda CB350T. This included tearing
the engine down and removing all rust from inside the cylinders, honing the
cylinders, piston and rings, reassembly.

• Starter and alternator replacement on a 1994 Mazda B2300

• Starter and alternator replacement on a 2001 Chevy S10