Experience
Professional engineering, and the work alongside it
My professional roles, the independent project work I've done alongside them, and my education.
01Professional
Professional roles
Now
Siemens
Apr 2025 – present
Mechanical Engineer · Design-to-Order
I'm part of the team bringing an established medium-voltage switchgear product, previously built in Germany and China, into U.S. manufacturing for the first time. My core work is mechanical: customer-specific Design-to-Order engineering, with NX design changes, packaging and layout, and the engineering deliverables that go with each order.
The product already has engineering organizations and processes at its other sites, so the U.S. side needs its own way of working with them. Alongside the design work, I'm helping define how engineering runs for the U.S. operation: engineering ownership and responsibilities between sites, how engineering information and drawings flow across the U.S., Germany, and China, and the processes the new operation runs on.
I'm helping define the engineering process while using it.
Improving the engineering process
Siemens · Internal engineering tool
Part-number reservation tool
30 → 5 mintypical reservation time
In a Design-to-Order environment, parts get reserved for designs all the time, and a typical reservation took roughly 30 minutes, much of it repetitive manual work.
I built an Excel workbook with advanced macros to automate much of that repetitive work, using AI to help write and refine the VBA.
Typical reservation time is now roughly 5 minutes. Because reservations happen constantly, that adds up.
Siemens · Internal tool · In progress
Engineering knowledge agent
The engineering knowledge for this product is scattered, and the U.S. team is growing. I'm building a knowledge agent to make that knowledge easier to reach: to help engineers learn the product, get new team members up to speed, and keep everyone working from the same information.
It's still in development. It's built around internal product knowledge, so I'm not sharing how it works or what's in it.
How I use AI
I treat AI like any other engineering tool, alongside NX, Excel, MATLAB, prototypes, and testing. If it makes a repetitive task faster or hard-to-find information easier to use, I use it; if it doesn't help, I don't. It's part of how I solve engineering problems, not the point of them.
This is current-employer work, so I keep it high-level: no product details, internal documents, systems, or screenshots. I'm happy to talk through the engineering approach in more depth in conversation.
Before
John Deere
Contract engineer through RFA Engineering
Mar 2022 – Apr 2025
Product Engineer · Mechanical Engineer 2
R&D and product design for John Deere Turf Care, taking products from concept to production. The height-of-cut mechanism is the clearest example: I went from talking with customers and gathering requirements to a patented design that now ships on the Z998R.
The parts I designed there ran the range: sheet metal, machined, injection molded, compression molded, cast iron, investment cast, weldments, and assemblies.
02Independent
Independent engineering
Alongside
Knee Traction Prototype
Personal project · in progress
Electromechanical and embedded electronic design for a knee-traction prototype: mechanical architecture, CAD, fixture design, load-cell sensing, stepper control with closed-loop force-limit logic, and bench testing.
Read the case study
03Education
Education
James Madison University
B.S. Engineering · minor in Mathematics
An engineering degree built around the design process: requirements, concept development, analysis, prototyping, and testing. My two-year capstone was the Shell Eco-Marathon vehicle.
Shell Eco-Marathon case study