As a Hardware Engineer we are in charge of our own projects and are expected to handle them end to end. This consists of interfacing with customers or internally to establish system or board requirements, schematic design, PCB routing, schematic and pcb review, board revisions, part and cross selection, and more.

As a Technical Support Engineer I had to be a master of all Connect Tech Products. These products consisted of all sorts of embedded systems and form factors. For example, NVIDIA Jetson carrier boards, COM Express type 2,6,7 carrier boards, PCI(e)-104 cards, serial cards, and many more. Being a Technical Support Engineer, I had to have enough of an understanding of all of our products to teach other customer Engineers how to use the hardware and software of each of our products. On the hardware side, this included schematic analysis, signal integrity analysis, and even schematic design for customer optimizations or issues. On the software side, a firm understanding of our written drivers, and each operating system was necessary to help the customer engineers. For example, device trees for ARM systems, driver troubleshooting and optimization, linux kernel development, Windows driver debugging, and Linux For Tegra software development. On top of the external customer help and issues, we worked internally in any way we could support the Engineering department such as hardware revisions, Engineering documentation, Driver updates, and software development.

As a hardware verification engineer, I would validate any and all circuitry both on the theoretical schematic and on the real boards. These circuits ranged from switched mode power supplies (SMPS), buck and boost circuits, linear regulators, and serial communication interfaces. I performed line and load regulation as well as temperature testing on the power circuits. I assisted software teams by soldering specific hardware configurations for testing and created test adapters for peripheral emulation. Lastly, I helped debug any and all issues by analyzing the necessary digital and analog signals to find the root of the issues.

As a skating and hockey instructor, I would run multiple sessions of skating and hockey instruction per week for other Univeristy of Waterloo students. I would prepare a lesson plan prior to each session that would progressively increase in difficulty each week. The sessions taught were a beginner and advanced skating session and a beginner and advanced hockey skills and drills session.

University of Waterloo Co-op 6Performed worst-case circuit analysis (WCCA) for the power supply circuits (switched-mode power supplies and low-dropout regulators) leading to schematic changes for further boards.Followed and modified a test plan that consisted of line/load regulation, step responses, and switch node plots (for the switched-mode power supplies).Soldered components to modify circuits and create isolated power and voltage testing environments.Conducted temperature testing with temperature chambers and thermal imaging cameras.

University of Waterloo Co-op 5As a student project engineer, I would work on setting up and maintaining customer requested systems. I would use Evertz products to host servers and configure their networks and file storage systems. I would also create and modify javascript scripts and configuration files based on customer needs. Lastly, I would configure the Evertz internal tool to match the configurations requested by customers.

University of Waterloo Co-op 3 & 4I worked on a small team of 6 people at LotLinx so I provided multiple roles as a Junior Developer and QA Analyst. I would develop Java processes to analyze data artifacts received from customers. I overlooked production level processes across different servers and created cron jobs to clean up and organize those server storages. I maintained and created JUnit tests and used Jenkins to run the tests and other processes. Lastly, I implemented a central log management system for dynamic log notifications via e-mail.

University of Waterloo Co-op 2As an IT analyst, I tested multiple web applications including TD's online backing application "EasyWeb". I also created and ran test cases in HP Quality Centre. Lastly, I manipulated data from test databases to provide test data for other teams to use for testing.

University of Waterloo Co-op 1As a member of the on site support team, I provided technical assistance to all other employees. I managed a test lab where employees would test new computer products. I would respond to an automated issue queue to troubleshoot hardware and software issues from other employees. I managed and tracked computers and monitors as well as imaged new laptops for new employees. Lastly, I would walk new employees through setting up their new computers and hardware.

* Manufactured and programmed circuit boards* Installing and updating software on new and existing products* Managed and tracked serial numbers and products