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Overview
Work History
Education
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Hobbies and Interests
Volunteer Experience
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Matthew Kolonia

Summary

Enthusiastic and resourceful engineer with extensive manufacturing, mechanical, and design knowledge. Specialty in new product design with bringing projects from ideation through design and fabrication, all the way into testing and deployment.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

R&D Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

AMOGY
Brooklyn, NY
07.2022 - Current
  • Start-up sustainability company that utilizes ammonia as a renewable fuel for the large-scale transportation sector.
  • Design, prototyping, and fabrication of the company's key technology, such as chemical reactors, combustors, burners, fuel and energy conversion devices, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and many other components required for an ammonia-based conversion process.
  • Generating CAD designs, drawings, manufacturing procedures, BOMs, CFD, and FEA, along with time in a metal workshop and testing lab.
  • Lead Engineer on projects such as the world's first ammonia-powered, carbon-free 100 kW tractor, 300 kW class 8 semi-truck, and 1 MW tugboat.

Senior Associate Manufacturing Engineer

L3Harris
Clifton, NJ
05.2021 - 06.2022
  • Design of circuit card assemblies and standard electronic module housings implemented in the Space and Airborne division of the military.
  • Managed in house made electronic assemblies by creating statements of work and procedures, proposal preparation, projecting lead times, technical costs and budgets for engineering and parts production.
  • Used CAD software to design creative alternatives to existing fixture solutions for many floor operations processes.

Commissions Engineer Intern

The Fulcrum Group
Manhattan, NY
  • Worked with designers, contractors, and system engineers on large, complex building systems to ensure their efficiencies are ideal
  • Installed, tested, and fixed systems such as AC Units, CRAC Units, Cooling Towers, Air Handling Units, Water Pumps, HVAC Units, Electrostatic Precipitators, and more
  • Worked on buildings such as ONE World Trade Center, NYU Science Center, LaGuardia CC and other large NYC buildings.

Owner

CAD Design and Prototyping Shop
  • Own and operate a 3D modeling, 3D printing, and 3D model analysis business
  • Producing and selling over 150 products to consumers all over the world.

Part Time Mechanical Engineer

EPTAM Precision Molding
Phillipsburg, NJ
  • Assisted in the design and development of custom blow molding and injection molding equipment including the use of electrical components, coding, thermodynamics, heating and cooling with thermocouples
  • Setup and processed thermoplastic Urethanes in the development of new manufacturing processes for catheter tubing and medical devices at a medical manufacturing facility.

Founder, Owner, and Manager

Fortify Wrestling Club
  • Founded and managed a private wrestling club with over 100 members.

Education

Mechanical Engineering, B.S. -

Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA
05.2021

Additive Manufacturing And Product Design, Master of Engineering -

Penn State University

Skills

  • SolidWorks
  • DFMA
  • GD&T
  • Rhino
  • Creo Parametric
  • Blender
  • Prototyping
  • Machine Shop Proficiency
  • System Analysis
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Product Design
  • CFD
  • FEA
  • Technical Lead Experience
  • Basic German
  • Start-Up Experience
  • AnSys
  • Leading Design Reviews

Hobbies and Interests

  • NCAA Division 1 Wrestler at Bucknell University
  • 3-year captain and 4-year starter at 149lbs. NCAA national qualifier.
  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  • Digital Fabrication / Art
  • Photography
  • Reading
  • Hiking
  • Fitness
  • Philadelphia Eagles

Volunteer Experience

  • Stevens Institute of Technology Wrestling Program - Hoboken, NJ: NCAA D3 Assistant Wrestling Coach
  • Edge School of Wrestling - Hoboken, NJ: Head Wrestling and JiuJitsu Coach
  • Volunteer Athletic Photographer

Timeline

R&D Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

AMOGY
07.2022 - Current

Senior Associate Manufacturing Engineer

L3Harris
05.2021 - 06.2022

Commissions Engineer Intern

The Fulcrum Group

Owner

CAD Design and Prototyping Shop

Part Time Mechanical Engineer

EPTAM Precision Molding

Founder, Owner, and Manager

Fortify Wrestling Club

Mechanical Engineering, B.S. -

Bucknell University

Additive Manufacturing And Product Design, Master of Engineering -

Penn State University
Matthew Kolonia