Work Experience
Below are brief descriptions of my relevant work experiences, click on the subheading to read more and view pictures or other relevant information.
Since October 2018, I have been working as the Student Safety Technician for the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department at Cal Poly.
Job tasks have included: maintenance of safety equipment, chemical inventory, SDS and safety audits, planning and implementation of lab improvements, and the development of safe working procedure placards and videos.
Due to recent events, in-person labs for the fall of 2020 needed to me highly modified to maintain distance and clarity in procedure. I worked with a professor to develop a process flow through the lab that made sense and did not cross its own path. I suggested numbered signs at the stations with minimal descriptions to remind the students where to go next once they completed a task. I also made multiple layout changes to ensure that the students would not be crossing their own path through the lab. When the process was laid out and signs were up, I filmed and edited a video that walks them through the process and shows the space in the proper layout for the lab. This video will also be playing on a loop when they first walk into the classroom to remind them as they come in.
During the summer of 2019 I was able to intern at AB&I Foundry in Oakland, CA where I was welcomed by the wonderful people who work there. They mainly produce recycled cast iron soil pipe, pipe fittings, and other small run orders.
Since I had a background in safety, the work that I did mainly focused on MRAs (Machine Risk Analyses). This meant that I got to go around the foundry floor and learn how all the different processes and machines worked. Through this, I covered about 95% of the factory floor and saw every operation run. I also got to propose potential corrective action items that would remedy any safety hazard that was found that could be improved. On some of these corrective actions, I was then able to design the solutions and work with the team members that are currently putting the corrective actions into place. After I completed the MRA, I would lead a meeting to review the information with my mentor, other engineers, safety personnel, and the relevant department supervisor.
In addition to the MRAs, I also got to work with some of the production data in order to understand if the improvements that were made on a machine were matching predictions. I compiled the data to give forecasts on potential savings which was then used to justify continuing the improvements on other machines.
I also learned how to use AutoCAD. I was tasked with converting hand drafted drawings that were going to be referenced in upcoming revisions on older equipment. Other drawings that I worked on were referenced in the fabrication of the corrective actions mentioned earlier, as well as an ongoing project to update and maintain the foundry sitemap.
I continued to work on some of the projects that I had started during the fall quarter after my summer internship.
During the summer of 2020 I was a Teacher's Assistant and Grader for IME 141 - Net Shape. This class covers the fundamentals of metal casting, including: sand casting, die casting, investment casting, lost foam casting, and more. As Teacher's Assistant I helped in the virtual classroom, gave presentations on my personal experiences in casting, and answered student questions. As Grader, I evaluated and graded student assignments and discussions.