About Me
John Carey
After a successful career in restaurant management, I decided I needed to pursue my life's purpose. 10-year-old John had Chemistry Sets, a Microscope, A large breadboard and circuit station, Technical Drawings all over the walls and plans to build a jetpack in the backyard. It was time I pursued what my heart had always wanted. I stepped back from management and found a full time job as a bartender. I spent the next 5 years earning my Bachelor of Sciences in Mechanical Engineering. To say I loved Engineering would be an understatement. I devoured classwork, looked for opportunities to learn beyond the curriculum, and started building projects in my free time. This portfolio is just a glimpse into some of the things that interest me. If I included ever scientific area of interest in this portfolio, then maintaining this site would be a full-time job. In addition to the Integrated Circuitry, FEA Analysis, Additive Manufacturing, Coding and Group Work that I have included here, I also pursue knowledge and skills in Quadcopter Technology, Robotics, AI, Physics, Neurobiology and Performance Optimization.
Team Work
Teamwork has been a part of my working life for 20 years. At 21 I drove an ambulance and worked with Fire and Rescue Teams. We went on medical calls together, ate meals together and slept next to each other in cots at the firehouse. Everything we did was as a team. A paramedic friend told me this was because a bundle of sticks is much stronger than any branch on its own. I learned early that I could accomplish much more with collaboration and teamwork. As a Restaurant and Bar Manager I used what I had learned to craft small teams of outstanding employees. I worked with my superiors to fulfill their visions. I took orders and relished the opportunity to contribute. Together with some amazing teams, we launched new concepts and made older ones more efficient.
This teamwork continued into my education. After the first year all the faces of the Mechanical Engineering Department became names and then peers and friends. We often worked together on difficult problems or group projects. Often, we formed groups where our strengths complimented each other's, and our weaknesses canceled out. I learned that Engineering wasn't always about having the knowledge, but about finding the knowledge... And that knowledge often lies on the other side of a conversation with someone.
My Ambition
At each step of growth in my Engineering Knowledge and Skills I get more and more excited. Building something is my calling. I want to be on a team that creates something. I want to help bring something new into existence, something that enriches people's lives or solves a real problem. I hope to find a company and a project that I can pour my passion into. I want to work long hours to solve that problem that is perplexing me. I want to wake up with a Eureka moment and jump out of bed to start working on it. I want to have to search for and learn new material or a different mathematical approach. This is what I am meant to do.