Summary
Phillip Szymanowski is a Lead Systems Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering complex industrial and robotic automation systems across food, pharmaceutical, automotive, and medical industries. He blends mechanical design expertise—CAD, FEA, CNC, and precision machining—with systems-level program coordination, having led technical projects totaling over $12M in capital equipment. Comfortable moving from customer-facing specification development to on-site start-up, programming, and troubleshooting, he routinely integrates vision systems, PLCs, and multi-discipline teams to meet tight sanitary and performance requirements. A Penn State mechanical engineering graduate now pursuing an MS in Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins, he brings both shop-floor machining experience and formal systems thinking to product development. Early roots in FIRST robotics and leadership as a university SGA president reflect a long-standing drive for iterative design, team leadership, and practical problem solving. Notably, his background working directly on prototype engine components and large-scale automation gives him an uncommon blend of precision manufacturing and high-level systems integration.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University
Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
English