Brandon C. Haberman

Financial Analyst Intern

• Analyzed potential financial returns from acquiring for-sale multi-family properties to suggest new investment opportunities.
• Performed Waterfall Analysis to determine whether refinancing, selling, or doing nothing maximizes returns.
• Optimized and implemented Microsoft Excel templates for management fee calculations, commercial investment analysis, and commercial budgets.

Student Professional Worker

• Designed solutions to reduce a year-long lead time in providing customers with electrical plans.
• Reduced variability in customer requirements on forms to ensure concise production criteria.

Factory Simulation Optimization

As the facility layout sub-team lead, we were tasked with designing a new layout for a factory that produces 10 unique parts on 25 machines. Four categories of changes were tested: facility layout, ordering policy, job-selection, and machine selection. We tested each alternative solution in Arena Simulation Software.

• Facility Layout: Grouped machines into work cells by grouping machines by part, ergo reducing transport times and setup-times.
• Ordering Policy: Through nonlinear optimization, an optimal reorder point and reorder quantity was found.
• Job-Selection: Optimized the queue rankings through implementing a hybrid selection rule minimizing the shortest remaining production time and setup time.
• Machine-Selection: Implemented a hybrid selection rule that minimizes the queue length, setup time, and shortest travel time.

The work in process (WIP) reduced by 26% and the time in system decreased by 42%.

Automated Fall Monitoring System

As the team leader, I led a team of 5 to design and analyze a camera system to minimize a person’s time on floor following a fall.

• Utilized a Hierarchical Task Analysis, Fault Task Analysis, and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis to determine design principles, functional requirements and failure types of proposed camera tracking system.

Northrop Grumman - Part Flow Visualization Tool

• Consulted with an engineer at Northrop Grumman to identify scheduling conflicts between parts with varying security restrictions, resulting in an increase in back-orders.
• Designed and implemented an interactive software tool in Python to illustrate part flows throughout the facility and to highlight production rooms with potential security conflicts between incompatible parts.
• Performed usability testing to evaluate the tool’s design and utility with sample users.