Applied Mathematics · SMU · Class of 2027
I learned manufacturing on a shop floor and mathematics at SMU. Lasertally is where they meet: software that reads a CAD file, measures every cut, and prices the part to the cent.
B.S. Applied Mathematics, May 2027. Looking for software, engineering, operations, product and technical sales roles starting June 2027.
01 Shop floor · Summer 2024
I spent the summer of 2024 at a laser fabrication shop in Los Angeles. I drew sheet-metal parts and nest-ready flat patterns in SolidWorks, ran the CNC laser, press brake and tube press, and kept the inventory and order records. I also quoted parts by hand, one drawing at a time.
Step 1
Every closed contour starts with its own pierce, and every pierce costs time. The outside, four bolt holes, a slot and a large hole make seven.
Step 2
Cut time follows cut length, so you add up the perimeter of every contour. The counter above is measured from this drawing's own geometry.
Step 3
Each bend line is press-brake time and another setup. This bracket has two, both 90° up.
Step 4
A quote is material plus every operation at the shop's own rates:
Material, cut length over feed rate, pierces, bends and setup. By hand, that is one drawing at a time. Lasertally turns it into a computed, itemized quote in seconds, straight from the CAD solid.
02 Design engineering · Summer 2025
At ARMADA Engineering I designed a complete kit-truck assembly, the KT01, in SolidWorks. A centerline-sketch master model drove more than 2,000 components, parametric parts were governed by data tables and engineering equations, and the drawings went out with tolerances and bills of materials. I also took a ratcheting shifter for a Turbo 400 transmission from concept through prototype.
"Overall length" = "Front overhang" + "Wheelbase" + "Rear overhang"
"Frame ht" = "Tire Ø" / 2 + "Axle to frame"
An illustration of the idea, not the KT01 drawing: in a master model every dimension is a named parameter, so changing the wheelbase moves everything that depends on it.
03 Mathematics · SMU · 2023 to 2027
I study applied mathematics at Southern Methodist University with a computational concentration and a minor in business from the Cox School. GPA 3.7+, graduating May 2027. Dynamical systems, analysis, PDEs and numerical methods are what I reach for when a shop-floor question turns into a model.
| Item | Part no. | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | MATH 4338 | Real Analysis |
| 02 | MATH 4325 | Dynamical Systems |
| 03 | MATH 4337 | Boundary Value Problems and PDEs |
| 04 | MATH 4339 | Complex Variables |
| 05 | MATH 4377 | Mathematics of Machine Learning |
| 06 | MATH 3315 | Scientific Computing (Python) |
| 07 | MATH 3304 | Linear Algebra |
| 08 | STAT 4340 | Statistics for Engineers |
| 09 | CS 1341 | Principles of Computer Science (Java) |
| 10 | ME 2372 | Introduction to CAD |
| 11 | ME 2310 | Statics |
| 12 | PHIL 1317 | Business Ethics |
Degree
B.S. Applied Mathematics
Computational concentration. Minor in Business, Cox School of Business.
Certifications
04 Founder · Lasertally LLC · 2026 to now
Lasertally turns a customer's CAD file into an itemized quote and a machine-ready program. I founded the company as a Texas LLC and shipped it end to end: geometry and pricing engines, two desktop apps, the website, subscription licensing, Stripe billing and live demos on prospects' own parts. It is live at lasertally.app.
CAD file to cut part
01 · Read
STEP, DXF, IGES and NC1 files go into a geometry engine I built in Python on OpenCascade. No redrawing, no tracing.
STEPDXFIGESNC1
02 · Measure
Pierce counts, cut lengths, bends and flat patterns come from the CAD solid itself, not from a drawing, and every part runs a list of checks before it is priced.
03 · Price
Every operation is priced against the shop's own rate card, with quantity breaks, lead-time tiers and material billing. I calibrated it to reproduce a real fabrication shop's quotation to the cent.
04 · Nest
Lasertally Nest, the companion app, does true-shape nesting on sheet and tube with kerf compensation, lead-ins, micro-joints and cut sequencing.
05 · Cut
Layered DXF for CypCut-class controllers and rotary G-code for tube. Post-processor safety gates block a cut emitted as a rapid, or a program missing its unit and mode preamble.
Built with
C++20Qt 6CMake · ctestPythonOpenCascadeTypeScriptReactElectronCloudflare Workers + D1StripeGitHub Actions
Visit lasertally.app05 Side project · Notex
Notex is a Mac menu-bar app I built for my own classes. One hotkey records a lecture. Notex works out which class I'm in from my calendar, transcribes on the device, and files structured notes with every deadline into that course's folder. Scanned handwritten pages come back as typeset LaTeX, and a graph sketched on paper is redrawn as a live, interactive figure.
Problem 1 of my Dynamical Systems exam (MATH 4325, Fall 2026), scored 93/100, as Notex transcribed it from the scanned paper. The plot, the phase line and the family of solutions are live widgets in the app.
Lecture 15 of the same course: my handwritten page, transcribed as written, with the sketches redrawn as real plots: the double-well potential, its damped phase portrait and a stable limit cycle.
From my Complex Variables study guide (MATH 4339): analytic continuation by a chain of Taylor discs, each one stopping at the nearest pole. The complex-plane figures are Notex widgets.
Tap a note to open it full size.
stripMargins(weave(page)) == page is asserted byte for byte.06 Models and school projects
Scrapes fighter histories from UFCStats, rates more than 2,700 fighters with an Elo system, and trains a supervised classifier on 27 engineered matchup features: Elo gap, striking and grappling rates, reach, age, layoff and style clash. It publishes a win probability for every bout on a card.
Scraped and cleaned about 5,000 records, engineered a 25-feature vector and trained a regularized classifier with cross-validation. Caught and fixed a data-leakage bug before reporting results.
Logistic and softmax regression, gradient descent, SVD, PCA with eigenfaces, and k-nearest neighbors, implemented without ML libraries.
137 server-rendered pages generated from one catalog module, with Stripe Checkout and webhook order recording, deployed for a client.
Designed, built and deployed my fraternity chapter's public website.
07 Experience
Jul 2026 to now
Lasertally LLC · Dallas, TX
CAD-to-quote and nesting software for laser fabrication shops, from the geometry engine to Stripe billing and customer demos.
Jun to Aug 2026
Luxury Brands LLC (FHI Heat, Youngblood) · Los Angeles
Delivered about 25 projects across 28 repositories in nine and a half weeks; 13 tools were live and in daily use at handoff. Built the company's internal platform (Next.js, single sign-on, role-based access, 14 dashboards) and an 820-note knowledge system served to Claude through a custom 12-tool MCP server.
Nov 2025 to now
Alpha Epsilon Pi, Tau Chi Chapter · SMU
Manage a $500K+ annual budget with monthly reconciliation and reporting. Built the chapter's budget model and dues tracking, and led a Microsoft 365 rollout with role-based access for 100+ members.
May to Sep 2025
ARMADA Engineering · Chatsworth, CA
KT01 kit-truck master model with 2,000+ components, parametric parts and manufacturing-release drawings; a Turbo 400 ratcheting shifter from concept through prototype.
May to Sep 2024
Laser fabrication shop · Los Angeles
Sheet-metal parts and nest-ready flat patterns in SolidWorks; CNC laser, press brake and tube press; inventory, vendor and order records; quoting by hand.
08 Contact
I'm looking for software, engineering, operations, product and technical sales roles where the work touches real things. Email is the fastest way to reach me.