A Little About Me
I’ve been passionate about creativity and design for as long as I can remember—my earliest childhood memories consist of making Pinewood Derby cars, building a tree house with my family, and combining Lego towns with my sisters’ dolls for the ultimate rainy-day games. For the past four years, I have been working as a Mechanical Engineer at Raytheon, pursuing my childhood dreams of turning ideas into real world solutions. At Raytheon, I have been fortunate enough to contribute as a mechanical designer to numerous programs, both inventing new products and refreshing legacy designs. At the same time, I have also been given the opportunity to begin shaping my career long term through opportunities in leadership, advanced training curriculums and certifications, and work alongside senior engineers to learn from their careers and help shape my own.
I am currently a student at Northeastern University pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Project Management. My early years spent working on creative projects have translated into a passion for engineering new and better solutions that drives my commitment to my studies. Today, as a graduating college student and future professional, I pursue my passion through my work on co-op and in my free time working with international project teams, state-of-the-art testing labs, cooperative design groups, and machine shops. I’ve developed my hands-on skills in high school woodshop classes and through machine shop work in CNC mill and lathe production, and expanded my technical knowledge by learning programs including SolidWorks, MATLAB, Excel, Minitab, and many more. My passionate interest in creative problem-solving has allowed me to integrate my love of sports and outdoor activities into my studies by using the lens of mechanical engineering to look critically at my favorite hobbies in clubs and on co-op.
At my first co-op I worked under Lean Engineers at DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson Company based in Raynham, MA. My role focused on integrating lean techniques, especially Flow and Six Sigma, into manufacturing on the shop floor. I honed my creative thinking skills through collaborative work on this co-op and worked with my team to apply creative solutions to many production processes at DePuy in order to make workflows more efficient, in turn saving time and money. The two main processes that I worked with were transformed drastically in product activity and operator efficiency, reducing 10-30% of product touch times during manufacturing and over 50% WIP reduction.
On my second major work experience, I worked as a Lifecycle Design Engineering co-op at Abiomed in Danvers, MA. At Abiomed, I combined my passion for creative design with the company’s strong existing products to create new and improved technologies. I excelled in my work on cooperative design teams for essential products, completed testing and data analysis on existing products, and learned machining technique using the in-house machine shop. One of my proudest achievements was developing the major design change to their new generation purge cassette device, applying the creative thinking I learned at Depuy to save the organization over $3 million per year.
My first two professional roles played a pivotal part in shaping my path to success and leading me to my final co-op experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer at Sparx Hockey. Working at Sparx was an extremely rewarding experience for me, as I had the opportunity to take on more responsibility than ever before as part of team of only two other senior mechanical engineers shaping product development at a successful startup. My role at Sparx was my first true foray into product development, and my day-to-day work was highly focused on creative design for injection molded parts. During my time at Sparx, I worked both independently and in close collaboration with my colleagues to design and test a large portfolio of new components that will shape the future products of the company.
I am excited to apply the skills I’ve gained to new and exciting work on my next endeavor as I transition from my studies at Northeastern University to full-time work. I graduated from Northeastern University in May 2020, and I have begun the search for full-time jobs.
Outside of school and work, I can hardly find enough time for all the things I love to do! I played Club Lacrosse and am on the Club Cycling Team for Northeastern, and also participate in several other intramural sports. If I ever find a day off, you can almost always find me mountain biking in the woods, snowboarding in Vermont, or walking around outside enjoying all that Boston and the surrounding areas have to offer. I was also a member of the Paradigm Hyperloop Team, through which I collaborated with an international team of students to develop a fully operational hyperloop pod. My passions have driven my academic and career trajectory and made me who I am today. Nothing would be more exciting than to have the opportunity to combine the things I love with my next work experience!
