Work Experience
Apple: Interconnect PD
I was responsible for the CAD and mechanical design of two custom connectors: the USB-A connectors for Mac Studio, released in March 2022, and the AC inlet for HomePod 2, released in January 2023. To achieve these designs, I worked through DFM with vendors, made manufacturing improvements, investigated previous generations of connectors and implemented their best features in the new versions, conducted FEA through Ansys Mechanical to measure, modify, and validate mechanical properties, and more. I worked cross-functionally with teams across Apple and delivered frequent design reviews to my team of 25.
Tesla: Residential Energy
My work at Tesla has yet to be released, but I was the lead mechanical design engineer on a next-generation charging product. I was responsible for the CAD and mechanical design/manufacturing improvements from the previous generation, and I conducted tests to thermally characterize features of concern and prove their reliability with data. I prepared and delivered several design reviews and made creative decisions on optimal design solutions to dilemmas faced by the new generation.
Stanford Product Realization Lab Teaching Assistant
For the past two years I have worked alongside a team of incredible graduate students to staff the PRL, Stanford’s primary makerspace, which hosts ~1300 students and affiliates each academic year. Our space includes a machine shop (lathes, mills, and Haas CNCs), a foundry (sand casting facility, injection molding machine, plastics, welding equipment, and forming equipment), a wood shop, and a prototyping lab (SLA and FDM 3D printers and laser cutters). My job as a TA is to help people safely and successfully use our equipment, which involves teaching labs and working with PRL users on mechanical design/manufacturing problems. I am the welding specialist and also a course assistant for ME 128/318, “the CNC class.” This year, I designed a welded artifact for structured labs for ME 203, the fundamental design and manufacturing class that all mechanical engineering and product design majors take. Now, ~90 students per quarter will have the opportunity to learn to weld, and prior to this lab, welding had been removed from the curriculum.
Schlumberger: Metal 3D Printing Materials Characterization
I spent summer 2019 characterizing and optimizing the proportions of matrix powders in my team’s metal 3D-printing powder recipe. I evaluated the material properties of some printed coupons by running ASTM tests to determine toughness, hardness, strength, Young’s modulus, and wear & erosion resistance. I also evaluated the powder’s reclamation viability by measuring powder flow rate, density, morphology, and size distribution. I observed powders and printed coupons in an SEM in order to record microstructure and evidence of degradation after many cycles of reclaiming non-sintered powder from previous prints.