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Engineering Design Coordinator

I am forever a student to professional knowledge and experience.  My passion lies in creative design, but lately has been limited to fabric materials and composites.  Be that composites, apparel, or simply cutting and sewing my own personal projects, my objective is to spend the next few years apprenticing with companies through which I can gain experience working with fabric materials of all types.  Materials fascinate me!

Overseer of roughly 50 different projects at any given time.  In charge of seeing products through every stage of development - from concept to production.

After being sought heavily by parents and students as a capable tutor of Physics and Calculus, I was recommended and then hired by Santiago College as a replacement for a teacher on maternity leave.  My Monday through Friday consisted of optimizing lessons with my colleagues, diffusing stressful situations with parents, teaching a total of 60 students, and constantly working to make my lessons easier to digest for the pupils.  

Having never studied pedagogy before, I was forced - on a daily basis - to roll with punches and be incredibly independent in terms of creatively crafting lessons and reviewing material on which I was rusty.  The skills I took away from teaching are worth tenfold the amount they paid me over the course of the semester, how to teach, how to listen, how manage an insanely large amount of busywork on top of normal operations, and most importantly how to convey concepts and ideas in the simplest way possible.  These are skills I plan to use for my lifetime.

Mathematics Teacher

Freelance English teaching to professional students with an intermediate or advanced English level.  Created a network of approximately 15 students with professions ranging across the board from Lawyer to Engineer.  Although I never pictured myself as an English teacher while in school, I quickly discovered upon arriving to Chile that it was the perfect opportunity to earn wages while improving my Spanish!

Private English Teacher

Worked with homebuilder Val Trenev in the construction and design of a 450 sq.ft. raised redwood deck. First plans were wrought, then certified, then materials purchased, and finally the whole project executed.  As a team of just two, we were successfully able to build the entire deck in just one month of weekends.  A testament to the rapidity of working as an efficient team.

Deck Designer and Builder

Led groups of students into the wilderness to experience the beauty of the outdoors!  Wilderness First Aid and CPR certifications required, we led everything from rock climbing trips to backcountry snowshoeing excursions.

Polyescapes Backcountry Guide

This is easily the most exciting work I have ever been involved in.  Having contracted with Project Skis LLC, I moved to Washington for a brief stint to try and help get the company's beautiful skis from material to market.  

We spent the time working primarily on skis, but I had the amazing opportunity and available materials to build a custom snowboard of my own design - from guts to graphics.  The board itself was a special design which utilizes bend-twist characteristics of uni-directional carbon fiber.  Read more about it in the Project tab below!

Ski/Snowboard Designer/Manufacturer

After a semester stint studying abroad at the Hochschule Muenchen in Germany I had the amazing opportunity to work as a cog in the grand BMW machine.  My position allowed me to test the following year's model of Mini Cooper engine for friction losses.  A group of German Engineering students and I were faced with the task of designing and building a test fixture for the engine, choosing and attaching the proper test equipment, and collecting and processing data.  In the process, I learned much about non-disclosure agreements, data processing, and cars in general.  Working with BMW engineers was a true pleasure.

Intern in the Combustion Engines Labratory

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Myles Wittman: Engineering Design Coordinator in San Luis Obispo, CA

Myles Wittman

Wolfpack Gear, Inc.

Santiago College

Santiago, Chile

Trenev Construction

California Polytechnic State University

Project Skis LLC

BMW

Cal Poly

Munich University of Applied Sciences