Work Experience

Fall 2024 - Present : Course Grader (Georgia Tech)

During the Fall 2024 semester, I had the pleasure of being a course grader for a section of Mechanics of Deformable Bodies (COE 3001), aka Def Bods. I thoroughly enjoyed this class when I took it in Fall 2023, as it covered some of the most essential and relevant topics for mechanical engineers. Students learn skills and techniques they will apply for the rest of their careers. Serving as a grader allowed me to provide valuable feedback to students, helping them deepen their understanding of the course material. 

For the Spring 2025 semester, I will be grading for a section of System Dynamics (ME 3017), another one of my favorite ME classes. 

Spring - Summer 2024: Process Engineering Intern (Tesla)

My next adventure took me to Lathrop, California, where I had the opportunity to work at the Tesla Megafactory as a process engineering intern. Megafactory is Tesla's industrial energy storage production facility, producing its flagship energy product: Megapack. 

This was an exciting time at Megafactory as the ramp to production capacity was in full swing. As a process engineering intern, I had the opportunity to wear many hats, ranging from assisting industrial engineers with cycle-time analysis, to collaborating with mechanical engineers on the fixture and rack design. These varied experiences allowed me to engage with many different engineering disciplines. 

Key Projects I Especially Enjoyed:

• Door Cart Design: Collaborated with a team of engineers to design a cart for door sub-assembly delivery throughout the facility. Cart was designed to support the required 1100+ lbs payload. 

• FOD Control: Developed engineering and administrative solutions to prevent occurrences of FOD (foreign object debris) with the goal of  improving overall product quality.

• Sub-Assembly Stations: Designed and deployed two sub-assembly stations with a focus on operator ergonomics and comfort. Substation redesigns also lead to reductions in cycle time. 

Summer 2023: Customer Quality Engineering Intern (Lenovo)

Returning to Lenovo, I had the privilege of working with the US ThinkPad Customer Quality Engineering team. This team works to support Lenovo's top-of-the-line ThinkPad products.

Some of my responsibilities included: driving root cause analysis on mechanical-related quality defects, collaborating with support and development teams in China and Japan to ensure swift failure analysis, assisting quality engineers with reproducing customer defects, and performing repairs on customer systems by replacing defective components. 

Projects were another central part of my experience on the CQE team. The first project I worked on was focused on automating a suite of PC benchmarks in order to build a performance database of Lenovo ThinkPad systems. As a mechanical engineer, this project was a unique challenge for me as I had to learn the basics of PowerShell Scripting. While I wasn't able to see this project through to its completion, it was still a great exercise in learning new skills on the job. The second project I worked on, and definitely my favorite one, was the Remote Control Motherboard Probing Fixture that I developed. Read more about it in the Projects section!

Fall 2022: Customer Experience Sampling Intern (Lenovo)

As a Lenovo Intern, I was a member of the Customer Experience Sampling team, a group that focuses on product quality and usability from a customer perspective. During my time there, I had the opportunity to audit 7 devices ranging from early engineering samples to production models from Lenovo's ThinkPad, Legion, and IdeaPad brands. I created findings reports based on these audits that were distributed to 200+ company employees and executives. This information was then used as a basis to make improvements to key steps in Lenovo's manufacturing and quality control processes.

Summer 2021,2022: Lifeguard (Town of Cortlandt)