Hello! I am the full-time Engineering faculty and Engineering Department Coordinator at Highline College.

I earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering for Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2012. After graduation, I moved to Phoenix, AZ to work at Intel as a Process Engineer in Chemical Vapor Deposition & Quality Engineer in Defect Metrology. Both of these jobs involved working at the high-volume manufacturing cleanroom in Arizona.

The large corporate work environment was not the right fit for me, so from 2013-2014 I stepped away from an engineering career and worked in the nonprofit sector. I ran a volunteer clearing house in Phoenix, AZ and served a 1-year term as an AmeriCorps VISTA member and Volunteer Coordinator at Children First Academy.

In 2014, I returned to school to complete a Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Washington (earned in 2016). While in graduate school, I was a teaching assistant and did research. My research involved roll-to-roll printing of flexible solar cells, screen printing of metallic inks for semi-transparent electrodes and electrode grid optimization.

After earning my Master's degree, I continued to do research until 2017, when I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana to start my teaching career. I taught a wide array of classes including Fluid Power, Mechatronics, Industrial Technology, CAD, Programming, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering Technology, and Engineering. While there, I managed several student research projects related to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) including MEMS packaging design and prototyping, strain gauge printing and optimization, and the development of hands-on kits for data acquisition of MEMS sensors.

In 2022, I returned to Washington state. Here at Highline I teach all the Engineering classes, so if you are an Engineering student it is likely that I will meet you at some point in your academic career!