Open to AI & robotics roles

Mechanical engineer
building toward
AI robotics.

MS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue. Four years of internships across automotive propulsion, welding automation, and telecom — diagnosing real systems, programming collaborative robots, and shipping the software around them. Now focused on where learned control meets physical hardware.

01 — About

Hardware first, then the intelligence on top.

I came up through mechanical engineering — FEA on engine baffles, packaging redesigns, heat shields for a Formula SAE car. The through-line in everything I've enjoyed most, though, has been the moment a physical system starts making decisions on its own.

At Miller Welding Automation that meant developing over 100 automation parameters for a new collaborative welding robot, then building the cloud database and web frontend the team used to manage them. At Stellantis it meant reading service data across a fleet to find the pattern behind a transmission failure. At Nokia it meant extending an AI chatbot's knowledge base.

I'm now deliberately moving into AI robotics — learned control, perception, and manipulation. This site is where I'll document those experiments as I build them.

02 — Experience
May – Aug 2023Auburn Hills, MI

Stellantis

Propulsion System Customer Experience Intern
  • Worked across engineering, maintenance, and field service to speed up diagnosis of transmission claims and service-quality data on current Jeep vehicles.
  • Led implementation of a triage strategy for a critical transmission issue affecting 50+ vehicles in operation, cutting vehicle downtime and service disruption.
May – Aug 2022Carol Stream, IL

Miller Welding Automation

Automation Engineering Intern
  • Developed 100+ automation welding parameters for a new collaborative welding robot alongside the engineering team.
  • Built a cloud database on Microsoft Azure with SQL, plus an ASP.NET frontend for storing and managing cobot welding parameters.
May – Aug 2021Appleton, WI

Miller Electric

Mechanical Engineering Intern
  • Prototyped new packaging solutions for the Power Systems Division — 20% lower packaging cost and 35% faster assembly line time.
  • Led a team integrating Bluetooth into a new product, managing supplier relationships throughout.
  • Ran SolidWorks FEA on an engine baffle design to identify structural improvements.
May – Aug 2020Naperville, IL

Nokia

Small Cell Intern
  • Integrated a 5G expert repository into Nokia's MIKA AI chatbot (built on IBM Watson) using JSON for subject-matter expert lookup.
  • Collaborated across teams on a tamper-proofing system for Small Cell products, producing the decision matrix behind the accepted solution.
03 — Projects

Things I've built.

A robotics lab notebook is coming here — experiments in learned control, perception, and manipulation as I work through them.

Formula SAE — Active Aero

2019–2021 · Purdue

Established an active aerodynamic drag reduction system for the 2022 car, and designed the 2021 car's heat shield in Siemens NX.

Cobot Parameter Platform

Azure · SQL · ASP.NET

Cloud-backed database and web frontend for managing collaborative welding robot parameters, built during the Miller Welding Automation internship.

Next up →

In progress

First AI robotics experiment write-up lands here. Check back, or reach out if you want the early version.

04 — Skills

Programming

PythonMATLABC C++JavaSQL HTML

CAD & Simulation

SOLIDWORKSSiemens NXCATIA V5 Creo V7AutoCADInventor FEA

Domains

Robotics & AutomationCollaborative Robots Propulsion SystemsDesign for Manufacturing Cloud (Azure)
05 — Education

Purdue University

M.S. Mechanical Engineering
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
West Lafayette, IN · MS conferred July 2024
06 — Contact

Let's talk robotics.

Open to AI robotics roles, collaborations, and conversations with people building physical intelligence. The fastest way to reach me is email.