Jacob Yates Barger

jybarger@ncsu.edu
757.570.3273

EDUCATION:
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Major: B.S. Industrial and Systems Engineering

December 2014

Overall GPA: 3.439/4

WORK EXPERIENCE:
Senior Design Project, Tindall Corporation, Raleigh, NC
August 2014 December 2014
Achieved 1st Place Honors at the Industrial Engineering Senior Design Day
Assisted company management in constructing and launching a preventative maintenance database
to address the issue of costly preventable repairs. Estimated $100,000 annual savings to company.
Worked as team leader to facilitate meetings with managers and faculty advisors to ensure all
deliverables were completed on time, as well as software development.
Customer Fulfillment Intern, Lenovo, Raleigh, NC
May 2014 August 2014
Focused on order fulfillment for public sector and education accounts.
Managed daily and weekly reports, as well as facilitating daily War Room meetings to resolve
customer satisfaction issues. Worked with sales, global logistics, and manufacturing teams.
Created process automation programs resulting in saving ~5 hrs/week.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
May 2013 August 2013
Worked with Distinguished Professor Dr. H.C. Frey in the Mobile Air Pollution Emissions Lab
Created and managed programs in VBA, MATLAB, Access, and SQL to facilitate analysis of second
by second vehicle emissions data from over 100 vehicle tests
Worked hand in hand with PHD students on their thesis research
Conducted data collection in the field, and performed extensive data analysis and validation

ACTIVITIES/AWARDS:
North Carolina State University Honors Program
Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honors Fraternity
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Allen F. & Beverly Gant Endowed Scholarship, Fitts Department of Industrial and System Engineering
Spring 2012
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity

RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
Microsoft Excel (VBA), Quality Control, Control of Production Systems, Engineering Economic Analysis,
Database Applications, Automation, Simulation, Ergonomics, Work Analytics and Design, Product
Development Processes, Stochastic Modeling, Deterministic Modeling

COMPUTER SKILLS:
Microsoft Excel (VBA), Microsoft Access, SAP, SolidWorks, SQL, Microsoft Office, SalesForce