Boom Lift and Scissor Lift Operator (2020)
PC-Crash Live Training Workshop (Essentials and Advanced), 2020
SAE C1022: Accessing and Interpreting Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders (2021)
MEMS – NanoFab Cleanroom Level IIA (SDSU)
CDR – Technician (Crash Data Group)
CDR – Data Analyst (Crash Data Group)
California Conference of Arson Investigators – Private Investigation Training (2019)
SDSU, MEMS Nano Fab Clean Room Safety Training
SDSU, CAL-OSHA Environmental Safety Training
Senior Staff Engineer, Vollmer-Gray Engineering (January 2023 to Present).
Staff Engineer, Vollmer-Gray Engineering (September 2019 to December 2022). Mechanical and materials failure analysis, accident reconstruction, vehicle systems analysis. Failure analysis and testing of components and systems including consumer products, appliances, water and gas systems. Construction Equipment investigation, Accident Reconstruction and Analysis. Crash data (black box data) retrieval related to motor vehicle collisions. Vehicular accident reconstruction using simulation software. Additional capabilities include 3D Laser scanning, finite element analysis, data acquisition, computer aided design and photogrammetry.
Development Engineer, Grapheton Inc. (2018 to 2019). Developed new lithography process for multi- layer polymer structures and implemented new calibration process for metal deposition CVD.
Graduate Researcher and Lab Manager, San Diego State University (2017 – 2018). Research focus on LiDAR mirrors, fabrication methods utilizing negative and positive lithography. Developed protocols for use of equipment and fabrication methods. Tasked with equipment calibration and maintenance. In charge of safety training and inventory management.
Forensic Engineer, Momentum Engineering Corp. (2016 to 2018). Accident reconstruction and investigation of automobiles, bicycles, and pedestrian collisions. Engineering services include vehicle and site inspections utilizing laser measurements, event data recorder access and interpretation, crash testing, re-enactments, visibility studies, traffic signal analysis.
Thesis: Burks, Ryan B. “SU-8 Based Multi-Layer Structures for Lidar Applications.” Master’s Thesis, San Diego State University, 2018.
Article: “Microfabrication of Multi-Layer SU-8 and Glassy Carbon Microstructures through Dye-Doped Negative Photoresists,” Burks, Walker, O’Neill, Kassegne, Journal Micromechanics and Microengineering 29, no. 12 (2019)
Crash Data Retrieval: BOSCH, Hyundai, Heavy Vehicles, Orange Empire Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Meeting, June 9, 2022
Use of CDR and HVEDR in Vehicle Fire Investigations, San Luis Obispo, CA, October 25, 2022
