Materials engineer in metals and alloys product development

• Working as a contractor for Apple

Work with the design, process engineering, and manufacturing teams to deliver comprehensive failure analysis reports on magnetic recording devices and materials.

• Failure Analysis -elemental composition using SEM/TEM EDS, XRD

• SEM/FIB dualbeam microscopy

• -improved FIB/SEM procedures for 25% time savings and quality increase

• -write SOP for sample prep, maintenance, and troubleshooting

• -responsible for tool maintenance and training

• Regularly problem solve in real time to fix microscopy issues and analysis techniques

• Manage a high volume of projects

Microstructure-Processing-Property investigation of oxide dispersion strengthened steels of 4 candidate alloys for nuclear reactor applications. Funded by a Department of Energy Fellowship.

• Determine best candidate alloy based on properties before and after ion irradiation using microstructure analysis and mechanical testing

Experimental work: Microscopy (SEM, EBSD, FIB), Mechanical Testing (compression, tensile, nano-indentation), statistical data analysis

o Oral presentations: TMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA (March 2020) and Anaheim, CA (March 2022)

Past Projects:

• Thin film deposition (PVD, ALD): microstructure and mechanical property analysis of Mg films

Nanomechanical behavior testing and microstructural analysis of Zr and Ti using EBSD and Nanoindentation

o Invited talk: Gordan Research Seminar (GRS), University of New Hampshire (July 2019)

o Oral presentation: TMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX (March 2019)

Conducted research regularly at the lab for doctoral studies from 2019-2022

• SEM, FIB, EBSD, nano-mechanical testing, nano-indentation

• Research on steels, Zr, Ti