Jacob Bigger

Jacob Bigger

845 21st Ave 320-237-0913
Minneapolis, MN 55414 bigg0058@umn.edu

OBJECTIVE
To become an automation engineer that allows me to utilize my mathematics degree as
well as my previous engineering experiences.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics Expected May
2016 College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

SKILL
Languages: Basic understanding of Python and C+
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+ Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Macintosh
Software: MATLAB, AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel
Foreign Language: 5 years experience and a basic understanding of Spanish
Relevant coursework: Engineering Optimization, Intro to C++, Intro to Python, Statics &
Dynamics
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Information Technology Intern May 2014 – August
2014 Starhotels, Florence, Italy
• Installed over 100 desktop PC’s and thin clients to a terminal server
• Wrote a technical report summarizing details about each computer
and thin client that I had installed

Product Support Intern May 2013 – August
2013
Beckhoff Automation, Savage, MN
• Designed a program that used Beckhoff’s industrial PC’s and I/O’s that
successfully simulated a four-way stoplight intersection
• Became proficient in Beckhoff products and worked with clients to fix
automation and programming issues that they faced
• Became educated in basic signal processing with Beckhoff’s
equipment

Automation Engineering Intern May 2012 – August
2012 Massman Automation, Villard, MN
• Conceptualized and designed machine parts using AutoCAD
• Worked with head engineers in designing blueprints for the automation
machines
• Made necessary changes to blueprints when problems with a machine
occurred

Automation Engineering Intern May 2011 – August
2011 Massman Automation, Villard, MN
• Designed hundreds of machine parts using AutoCAD and indexed them
all in an easy to use library
• Physically assembled the manufacturing machines following the
blueprints that I helped draw