My Professional Journey
I thought it would be interesting to put together a visualization of my career journey in engineering. Looking at the various Mermaid diagrams, I felt like using a gitGraph diagram made the most sense.
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branch "Ultralytics-PT"
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commitThe First Few Steps
Getting Started
After completing my degree, I started off in manufacturing, specifically looking at how to verify goods were being manufactured to specifications. There was a lot of interesting topics here, my favorite of which was learning about fractography. In this time, I also started shell scripting to help automate some routine tasks. At my first role with Corning Inc., I also was exposed to computer vision and machine learning for the first time and helped with managing, curating, and evaluating a defect dataset for image classification, but more on that in a bit.
A Challenging Second Step
While I was finishing up my undergraduate degree, I had become highly interested in and skilled with Solidworks CAD. So given the opportunity, I sought out roles that would let me use those skills. Unfortunately 2020 was not the best time for finding a new role, however people pulled together to do what they could to help those in need, which is where I put my skills to use.
In this time, I helped to found Tetra-Bio-Distributed on the principal of developing open-source medical equipment that could be used in times of great need or scarcity. Additionally, I also contributed to the Maker Mask Project and various Helpful Engineering Projects. Given the circumstances, it wasn't a bad start to my mechanical design career and while it was volunteer work, it was all great experience. By taking this route, I was able to coauthor an article for Make Magazine and one of my designs was published as a medical research paper, with a presentation at the SoCal Linux Expo (SCALE) 19 by Daniel Stemen. All the while, I was looking for a full time Mechanical Design role, however given my geographical location at the time, they were not easy to find.
I landed a role as a Mechanical Design Engineer, with an added bonus of being the administrator for the organizations Enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) system.
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