Professional Summary
Chemical Process Engineer with hands-on manufacturing experience across automotive, plastics, and flooring industries. Passionate about leveraging data analytics, process optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to drive measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, and operational excellence.
Work Experience
Process Engineer
Shaw Flooring- Led continuous improvement initiatives for Coater 1, improving uptime, line speed stability, and product quality by systematically reducing delamination failures, loose-edge defects, and other quality concerns.
- Pioneered SBR latex compounding pipeline optimization efforts, coordinating maintenance, operations, and compounding teams to diagnose hard-piping restrictions, valve failures, and flow-rate variability. Primary accountability for VAE to SBR latex transition.
- Designed and implemented comprehensive digital analytics pipelines integrating Excel/VBA automation, MS Access relational databases, and Power BI dashboards to centralize shift-report, downtime, scrap, and defect data.
- Created structured operator-training matrices and competency tracking systems for critical coating and roll-up stations across three shifts, improving skill coverage and reducing onboarding time.
- Designed standardized operator engagement meetings for ergonomics, equipment usability, and process improvement ideas, ensuring frontline insights directly drive engineering actions.
Process Engineer
Woodbridge - Formed Plastics- Primary point of accountability for all material, process, and quality-related issues in a fast-paced EPP manufacturing environment involving daily troubleshooting related to quality specifications, part appearances, and equipment maintenance.
- Directly responsible for continuous improvement efforts for high-fallout part numbers involving changes to tool design, setup instructions, process parameters, and equipment health analysis.
- Led a special task force across three production shifts to increase overall equipment efficiency, forming specialized units to target cycle time and availability challenges.
- Used CAD software (Teamcenter Visualization) for tooling layout and launch qualification standards including mould cavity placement and initial capability studies.
Quality and Failure Analysis Intern
Volkswagen Group of America- Worked with cross-functional teams to solve production issues identified through in-house audits and warranty field claims, escalating issues to appropriate forums for speedy resolution.
- Created and maintained an intradepartmental database to quantitatively track cross-functional team topics, progress updates, and auto-format meeting minutes.
- Assisted a special task force analyzing large-volume field failures, developing solutions and countermeasures, and tracking issues through communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Teaching Assistant - Chemical Process Operations Laboratory
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga- Demonstrated and aided students with operation of distillation column and performed troubleshooting for unit operations (absorption column, heat exchanger, etc.).
- Created detailed step-by-step methods for continuous operation of the distillation column and hypothetical experimental guides for students.
- Performed lab manager duties: reordering supplies, providing technical support, and overseeing compliance with lab safety regulations.
Leadership Experience
Team Captain
AIChE Chem-E-Car Team- Coordinated creation of an entirely new car design, delegating team captains and subdividing workload into task-specific categories.
- Implemented policies to qualify Chem-E-Car participation as an "experiential learning" course credit.
- Increased networking with underclassmen and added 10 new members (compared to only 1 the previous year).
Stopping Reaction Team Lead
AIChE Chem-E-Car Team- Directed a team of chemical engineers in orchestrating and calibrating a chemical reaction to stop a miniature car powered by a chemical battery.
- Presented research to chemical engineering professionals from schools across the Southeast.
- Created a hydrogen fuel cell and learned coding techniques for Arduino (C++) and Raspberry Pi (Python) sensor integration.
Supplemental Instruction Program Assistant
UTC Center for Academic Success/Advisement- Corresponded with SI Leaders to offer leadership guidance on lesson plans and classroom management techniques.
- Led weekly staff meetings ranging from professional development training to administrative tasks.
- Helped obtain CRLA certification by demonstrating training expectations to SI Leaders.