Process Controls Engineer · Mechanical Engineering background · Salt Lake City, UT

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I'm a Process Controls Engineer at Reliable Controls Corporation, working on heavy industrial automation projects for mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing clients. I bring a mechanical engineering foundation in thermal and fluid analysis (FEA and CFD), CAD/CAM, and hands-on fabrication. This portfolio shows my current work alongside the engineering projects that got me here.

Skills & Tools

Industrial controls & documentation

• SOP and LOTO procedure development
• Turnover package and document control
• P&ID markup, field walkdowns and isolation planning

Analysis & simulation

• ANSYS (thermal FEA)
• CONVERGE (CFD)
• MATLAB, hand calculations

Design & fabrication

• Onshape, Fusion 360 CAM
• CNC, manual mill and lathe, waterjet
• Arduino, 3D printing, sand casting

Automation

• Python
• AI-assisted scripting (PowerShell, VBA)
• Excel, Word and Access workflows

Current Work

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Process Controls Engineer, Reliable Controls Corporation (May 2026 to present)

Supporting industrial automation projects in mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing.

Featured: Slag Mill Flotation Upgrade, SOPs and LOTO procedures (Aug to Sep 2026). Created and field verified isolation (LOTO) documentation for a mining operation's flotation upgrade: 52 existing isolation matrices verified and 10 new ones created, 1 new SOP written and 8 verified, about 20 drawings updated, and 269 action items delivered to the client.

Featured: Work Pack Creation Workflow. Wrote a standard procedure that turns marked-up P&IDs into organized, bookmarked work pack PDFs with tables of contents, using Visio, Excel, Word mail merge, Acrobat and Access.

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Research

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Co-authored a paper on aerodynamic modeling of multirotor UAVs in forward flight, using NASA wind-tunnel data to derive stability and control derivatives for control design and simulation. Accepted for presentation at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2027. Full details: ‣

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Featured Projects

• Capstone: Dragonfly Reverse Airflow Force Balance: sponsored by Baxter Aerospace; measures lift, drag and pitching moment in forward and reverse flow, with 9 of 13 specifications met
• CFD of a NACA 0012 Airfoil: inlaid mesh in CONVERGE, benchmarked against published experimental data
• Pizza Box Thermal Modeling (ANSYS FEA): raised pedestal design increased cooling time by 95.8%
• Boat Propulsion System: custom propulsion and propeller design; fastest boat in the competition
• Electric Cooler: best cooling performance in the class relative to power, cost and stability, built for $174.43

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Education & Honors

• Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Utah Tech University (2026), GPA 3.93. Passed the FE exam in August 2025 (Engineer in Training).
• Elite 11 Award, Utah Tech Alumni Association (2026): one of 11 graduating seniors chosen each year through an application and alumni-panel interview, based on academics, leadership and service. About the award
• Coca-Cola Global Leader of Promise Scholar (2021, administered by Phi Theta Kappa): one of seven international members named a scholar from more than 900 applications. Casper College announcement