Kathryn Mc Neal
About Kathryn Mc Neal
Kathryn McNeal is a Systems Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories with a background in industrial engineering and experience in process improvement and automation.
Title
Kathryn Mc Neal holds the position of Systems Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Since 2016, she has been working in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Professional Background
Kathryn Mc Neal’s professional experience includes various roles in industrial engineering. In 2015 and 2014, she worked at Intel Corporation as an Industrial Engineering Intern, where she contributed for 3 months each year. Before that, she was an intern at Norfolk Southern in 2013, based in Atlanta, GA, and at GE Aviation in 2012, in Middle River, MD.
Education and Expertise
Kathryn Mc Neal earned her Master of Science (MS) in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, where she studied from 2014 to 2016. She also holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she studied from 2010 to 2014.
Achievements in Process Improvement
Kathryn Mc Neal has led several impactful projects aimed at improving processes and efficiency. She developed a planning tool that reduced errors and cut revision time by 60%. Additionally, Kathryn led a process improvement initiative that automated manual work and enhanced communication through standard procedures and the creation of a web app. She also created a VBA dashboard to track job locations on a production floor and led an internal project to standardize industrial engineering tasks across various production floors.