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About Me 🙋‍♀️

I graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. It’s been about 2.5 years since I graduated from college, yet I have been in 8 different roles already!

School 👩🏻‍🎓 : Virginia Tech
Major 📚 : Mechanical Engineering
Scholarship 💪 : VT Beyond Boundaries Scholarship (3-Year Full Ride), William Potts Dr. Scholarship, 2019-2020, Global Education Office Scholarship 2019, Pratt Scholarship 2019, SEC Scholarship 2020-2021
Project 🇷🇼: Rwanda Community Water Sanitation Project (Rilima, Rwanda) 2019

Start of my career 🏭

I started my career as an industrial engineer on the manufacturing floor with the belief that a “true engineer” should understand what’s happening on the floor.

Role 👩‍🔧: 2nd Shift Area Business Leader
Responsibilities 🛠️: Keeping the production line running smoothly by identifying and solving problems.
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Improved the production line efficiency by 10% by implementing a flag system to indicate the change in the incoming product.
Take away 🎁: Ability to work under pressure and visualize the big picture.

Start of PowerPoint 📊 and Excel 📈

With the confidence that I could understand the manufacturing process, I moved to the quality engineering team, where I met many different people.

Role 👩‍🔧: Supplier Quality Engineer Co-Op
Responsibilities 🛠️: Ensuring the quality of the product by investigating the root cause of the problem and implementing corrective actions.
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Saved ~$400,000 in cost savings through the implementation of 7 different corrective actions.
Take away 🎁: Being able to use data to present the solution to the higher management.

Switching the industry 🍫

After a year of working in the appliance industry, I decided to switch to the food industry for a change. I joined the Hershey Company as a project engineer.

Role 👩‍🔧: Project Engineer Intern
Responsibilities 🛠️: Analyzing the current manufacturing process and providing solutions to improve the process.
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Analyzed production bottleneck issue and identified impacted areas in penuche processes; recommended solutions to increase the production by 9%, 40%, and 220%. The company later invested $1.8M to adopt the solution alongside the site expansion.
Take away 🎁: Being able to use data to present the solution to the higher management.

Start of my journey with Rolls-Royce 🛫

Got selected for the Rolls-Royce International Program! (Unfortunately, the pandemic happened, and was converted to a remote program 😢)

Role 👩‍🔧: Mechanical Engineer Intern
Responsibilities 🛠️: Conduct a study for gear train design efficiency on different gear sizes for Trent 7000
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Analyzed the current gear train design and identified an optimal gear structure to reduce current cost by 0.6%
Take away 🎁: Being able to work with a global team and utilize the resources to effectively achieve the goal of the project.
Take away 2 🎁: Got some time to pause and think about what I like. (Built my own PC and started to wonder about the software side of the engineering.)

Graduate Development Program 🎓

In 2021, I joined Rolls-Royce as a graduate development program engineer. I was assigned to the Engineering Operations Management team for the first rotation.

—————————– First Rotation (EOM) —————————

Role 👩‍🔧: Project Manager Assistant
Responsibilities 🛠️: Led and supported various process improvement projects involving software solutions such as RRMS and supplier audit program
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Presented the solution to utilize the existing internal website to add the data collection feature for the supplier audit program. The project is currently in the implementation phase.
Take away 🎁: My first experience with working with software engineers and understanding the software development process. Seeing how the software can be used to solve a common but complex problem was fascinating.

————————— Second Rotation (Helo) ————————–

Role 👩‍🔧: Design Engineer
Responsibilities 🛠️: Led design improvement projects such as oil leakage issue
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Presented solutions to design challenges and obtained approvals for four different improvement projects. Published two technical reports
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Initiated and delivered Helo Aftermarket Material Reviewer (HAMR) app to efficiently monitor material holds, saving ~$40,000
Take away 🎁: Developed an app for the first time with the help of the Software Factory team. Something sparked in me, and I wanted to learn more about software development.

——————– Last Rotation (Software Factory) ——————-

Role 👩‍🔧: Software Engineer
Responsibilities 🛠️: Learn and support internal-facing software such as 3DT (Dynamic Data Deliverable Tracker) and SAF (Safty Assurance Framework)
Amy’s Impact 🔥: Developed backend API for 3DT, SAF, SD, and exVibe
Take away 🎁: This is where I belong

Here I am! - with Software Factory 🎉

I’m extremely lucky with all 7 positions I had so far. I was able to learn and grow from each of them and finally found my passion. I never thought I would be a software engineer, but here I am! Click here to read more about my contribution with Software Factory.