2000 - Present    NAU Environmental Sciences                    Flagstaff, AZ

Student Engineer

§     My responsibilities included experiment design for a greenhouse gas project.  This included flow analysis of the gas delivery system, and design of computer controls and data acquisition system using Lab View software. 

Summer 2000    Arizona Public Service                               Joseph City, AZ

Student Engineer

§     My responsibilities included implementation of a boiler tube failure prevention program.  As part of this program I was responsible for creating tube schematics for all of APS’s power plants in Arizona and New Mexico.  Other responsibilities included boiler heat rate optimization and a renewable energy study.  

Fall 1999    NAU College of Engineering and Technology       Flagstaff, AZ

Teaching Assistant

§     My responsibilities included assisting students with the use of AutoCAD R14 and Mechanical Desktop.

Summer 1999   Miller Engineering                                            Tucson, AZ

Draftsman

§     My responsibilities included creating AutoCAD drawing for a multimillion-dollar pipeline and barge project.   

1997 - 2001       Northern Arizona University                      Flagstaff, AZ

Mechanical Engineering

§     Thermal/Fluids emphasis

§     Engineering GPA 3.4

Year of Education Scholarship recipient (Fall 1997-Spring 2001)

Arizona Public Service Scholarship recipient (Spring 2000, Fall 2000)

I have received analytical experience from three semesters of calculus, one semester of differential equations, and three semesters of physics.  My engineering course work has included vibrations, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, dynamics, compressible flow, biomechanics, electrical circuits, compressible flow, ME520 applied fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, aerodynamics, and various other classes.       

I have received practical experience from participation in Design for Practice class series.  Projects include robot explorer problem, anaerobic sludge digester, and Wired Bliss climbing cam design.  Other projects include greenhouse gas delivery system, and compost shaker table.

Computer software skills include AutoCAD R14, R13, LT2000, Mechanical Desktop, MS Office, programming in C++ and Lab View 5.1.     

Active ASME student member (Fall 1999 – Present)

Interests include computers, music, rock climbing, mountain biking and SCUBA diving.