Software Engineer
Cleveland Cliffs, Dearborn
March, 2021 - October, 2025
Acted as the process control liaison and primary software engineer for the Pickle Line Tandem Cold Mill, where our steel bands would be trimmed, pickled, and cold reduced into thinner coils.
- Develop and enhance in-house manufacturing software using C# and Python, introducing new features that increased production efficiency and reduced downtime by 10%.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with production, quality, and maintenance teams to gather requirements and refine user stories for new software functionalities.
- Implement integrated Power BI dashboards with Oracle and SQL Server, automating daily reporting and reducing manual reporting hours by 15% while enabling real-time data-driven decisions.
- Review and optimize peer code, ensuring clean architecture, maintainability, and alignment with industry best practices.
- Utilizing Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to retain historical product data for further research and use within our custom software.
- Monitor and support critical plant systems, proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks to maintain high availability.