Jeffrey Woodford

10149 Lochcrest Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45231 * (513) 478-0581 * woodfojt@gmail.com

EDUCATION
Carnegie Mellon University Aug 2019 – May 2020
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Robotics and Control GPA: 4.0/4.0
University of Cincinnati Aug 2014 – May 2019
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.94/4.0
Minor in Mathematics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TECT POWER, Santa Fe Springs, CA
Junior Value Stream Engineer Jan 2016 – Dec 2016, Jan 2018 – Aug 2018
● Served as process engineer for an aerospace company focused on manufacturing jet engine compressor blisks,
impellers, and outlet guide vanes for leading jet engine designers from multiple countries
● Developed a program to automatically pull and format production hours
● Conducted experiments to determine optimal production parameters to prevent unnecessary rework and scrap
● Designed, modeled, and drafted tooling fixtures for production
● Worked on a team to develop a visual factory to increase efficiency and reduce mistakes in manufacturing
● Created bills of materials to track and forecast expendable tooling usage and costs
● Designed and drafted building layouts to meet increasing production demands
TECT POWER, Utica, NY
Engineering Co-op May 2017 – Aug 2017
● Wrote programs to automatically pull inspection reports to evaluate material removal for chemical processing
● Worked on a team to develop a visual factory to increase efficiency and reduce mistakes in manufacturing
● Collected and analyzed production data from coordinate measurement machines (CMM) using statistics to find
correlations between dimensions and processes to make data-driven decisions
● Audited maintenance logs in accordance to Total Preventative Maintenance procedures to prevent machine downtime
PROJECTS
DARPA Subterranean Challenge – Autonomous Battery Swapping for Quadcopters
● Developed a battery swapping system that mounts to mobile robots conducting search and rescue as well as mapping
operations under ground and in confined spaces
● System can perform two battery swaps taking only 30 seconds to remove, discard, and replace a battery using a
motorized scissor lift mechanism
● Designed proprietary hot swapping battery interface capable of handling more than 100 Amps of current continuously
Mobile Robot – Navigating to Position with Collision Avoidance
● Developed PID controller to navigate differential drive robot to a fixed position using an inertial measurement unit
● Created a system using an ultrasonic sensor to detect obstacles and make changes in the path to avoid them
Predicting Abnormal Operation of Silicon Etching Machines using Machine Learning
● Programmed an unsupervised learning model to predict deviations from normal operating conditions for a silicon
etching machine using principle component analysis (PCA), self-organizing maps (SOM) and Hotelling’s T-squared
● Identified 100% of actual process deviations with a false-positive rate of 7%
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
● CAD/CAM – Solidworks, KeyCreator, NX, Cura
● Finite Element Analysis (FEA) – ANSYS, NX, Solidworks
● Controls – PID, LQR, LQG, H2, H Infinity, Full State Feedback, Kalman Filters, Inertial Measurement Units
● Programming and Simulation – C++, Python, MATLAB, Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications
● Fabrication – Rapid Prototyping (3D Printing), Manual Mill, Manual Lathe
● Machine Learning – Pytorch, Keras, Neural Networks (LSTM, CNN, MLP), Support Vector Machines (SVM),
Principle Component Analysis (PCA), Random Forest, K-Means, K-Nearest Neighbors, Computer Vision (OpenCV)
● Signals and Signal Processing – Advanced Fast Fourier Transformations, Statistical Signal Processing
● Quality Control – Statistical Process Control, First Article Inspection, Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility