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Mechanical Engineer
New York, NY
Jun 2015 - Present (9 years 6 months)
• Work on multidisciplinary teams to design,
develop, and evaluate new and existing energy
harvesting products, at times acting as lead
engineer.
• Prototype energy harvesting products, including
longboards, textiles, modular wheels, strollers,
shopping carts, floor panels, cricket balls, and
speed bumps.
• Presenter for U.S. Department of State’s
speaker program in Swaziland about STEM and
entrepreneurship.
• Named as inventor on 3 pending utility patents.
• Created demos and pitched to investors during
record-breaking Series A funding round.
• Consulted for external companies as an energy
harvesting expert.
• Taught the company’s STEM curriculum to
students domestically and abroad.
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Product Development Associate
Uncharted Play
May 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 1 month)
Used technical and creative skills to work on improving and designing Uncharted Play's suite of play products. Followed development of products from ethnographic research and prototyping up to manufacturing production.
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Bibliographic Assistant
Rare Books & Manuscript Library Columbia University
Oct 2011 - Dec 2012 (1 year 2 months)
Part time work-study job. Organized books, files, and documents. Worked on projects to integrate newly received books, and to protect and re-integrate damaged books.