# Serenity Nguyen > Senior Mechanical Engineering Associate at Berkeley Lab Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/serenity ## Work Experience ### Senior Mechanical Design Engineer @ Berkeley Lab Jan 2024 – Present Senior Mechanical Engineer Associate for the Advance Light Source Upgrade project, Supports & Alignment subsystem Storage Ring upgrade for the ALS, including the magnet raft module alignment systems, and anchoring schemes. High Test Field Dipole for ATAP, including yoke-shell alignment systems, and coil pack insertion procedures. ### Mechanical Design Associate @ Berkeley Lab Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 Mechanical Design Associate, Supports & Alignment Group for the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U) project. • ALS-U is a major upgrade project of the ALS synchrotron that will boost the brightness of its X-ray beams at least a hundredfold. • Uses CREO Para-metric drawing package, including GD&T, assembly drawings, and managing complex assemblies. • Designer for ALS-U Storage Ring magnet rafts, supports, and alignment hardware. ### Mechanical Engineer @ MDC Vacuum Products, LLC Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hayward, CA Mechanical Engineer for high vacuum and ultra high vacuum vacuum solutions: components, chambers, valves. Executes engineering design in CAD for custom orders, new product design, and writing ECR. Experience designing with 304SS and 316SS. Performs MRB review, and dispositions for non-compliance reports. ### Product Development Engineer @ Semtive Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA Product Development Engineer for Nemoi, heavy duty vertical axis wind turbine for urban and rural applications. Nemoi is a vertical axis wind turbine designed to capture wind effectively from all directions. Managed projects, including revision control, updating SolidWorks CAD models, writing technical reports about structural loads calculations, reviewed IOM, and managed vendor relationships. Performed out-of-box inspections and first article inspections of turbine parts and mounting systems. ### Mechanical Engineer Intern @ NEXTracker, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Fremont, CA Mechanical Engineer intern for solar tracker hardware design. Designed solar tracker hardware mounts that interfaced a control systems enclosure box to a solar module torque tube in the field. Hardware mounts were designed to be stamped sheet metal parts that could withstand different environmental conditions, including snow load and rain. Managed solar tracker hardware mounts product design lifecycle, including developing CAD models, engineering drawings, and writing RFQ. Updated design lifecycle with engineering drawings, costs, materials, and progress write-ups within Arena Solutions, SolidWorks ePDM, Box, and Microsoft OneNote. Wrote an internal Product Testing documentation that would streamline communication between lab testing manager, mechanical engineers, and structural engineers. ### Teaching Assistant, Head Counselor @ Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA Teaching assistant for a Computer Simulations and Video Game Design course that focused on introductory computer science skills in Javascript and video game oriented user interface design. Head counselor overseeing a team of program teaching assistants and 60+ enrolled high school students. ### Graphics Designer @ Huntington's Outreach Program for Education, at Stanford Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA Illustrated graphics for HOPES, a Huntington's Disease awareness research organization, on the topic of health and biology. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Stanford Center for Design Research Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Stanford, CA Conducted project under research associate Neeraj Sonalker concerning the use of visual language to decode team interactions, identify patterns and interventions to augment team interactions towards an innovative outcome. Researched and designed possible software interfaces for an online visual language software for use as video coding training software, for computer and tablet platforms. ### Managing Editor of Graphics @ The Stanford Daily Newspaper Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA Managed the newspaper's artists for the graphics department, and led quarterly recruitment drive that increased artist staff by 250%. Illustrated the cover art for each edition of Intermission, The Stanford Daily's weekly art publication. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mechanical Engineering Stanford University Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/serenitynguyen --- Source: https://flows.cv/serenity JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/serenity/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25