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Professional and Formal Experience 

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Jetoptera

Startup Creating VTOL Transportation Vehicles

Lead Engineer

01/2021 - Present

As a member of Jetoptera, I

led mechanical and systems engineering projects for manned and UAV vehicles with unique propulsion systems.

Systems Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

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Blue Origin

Suborbital and Reusable Rocket Company

Manufacturing Engineering Intern

09/2019 - 12/2019

As a part of the manufacturing engineering team, I designed and built a test system to accelerate and ease testing for valves on Blue's rocket engines.

Mechanical Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering

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MITRE

Federally Funded Research and Development

Drone Design Intern

05/2018 - 09/2018

As a drone design intern for MITRE,  I designed and built a drone to fit the needs of one of MITRE's sponsors and worked on other internal MITRE projects.

Mechanical Engineering

Rapid Prototyping

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Novo Nordisk

Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research

Mechatronics Intern

06/2017 - 08/2017

As an intern within Novo Nordisk's U.S. device research team,  I conducted a self-guided mechatronics project to inform a design decision for my team.

Mechatronics Prototyping

In-Depth Research

FIRST Robotics

Competitive Interscholastic Robotics Competition

Prototyping Lead/VP

09/2014 - 06/2017

As vice president, and key member of our prototyping, manufacturing, and design teams, I was a leader of our robotics team.

Systems Engineering

Team Leadership

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Formula SAE

College Competition for Electric Vehicles

Transmission Subteam

09/2016 - 12/2019

As part of the transmission subteam, I designed, built, and fabricated our team's transmission assembly with my teammates.

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Analysis

Projects, Schoolwork, and Personal Development

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A CNC lathe/mill combination to autonomously manufacture pieces out of blue foam

Odysseus

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A self-designed quadcopter with a 3D printed base and off-the-shelf components

Quadcopter

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A data collection submersible designed to augment the DOA's water quality database

DORS

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CAD, FEA, and assembly drawings from a mechanical design class at Olin.

Mechanical Design

3D-Scanner

A 3D scanner that uses IR sensors to generate a heatmap of 3D space.

Encryption

A password storage web application that uses RSA encryption algorithms

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User Design

A user-oriented design experience focused around service animal trainers.

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Electric Motor

A demonstration of basic electric motor functionality using a magnet, bolts, and some copper wire

Sean Szymanski

Mechanical Engineer

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