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Owen Sound, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• R&D expert designing optimal motion planners in Python for the Canadarm3 and the lunar Gateway.
• Tune high-precision PID controllers for robotic arms on in-orbit satellites.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developed a complete production-level robotics software interface in Python for embedded force sensors.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Created courses on ML, GenAI, and LLMs, which have been taught to business executives at large corporations in both the US and Canada.
• Pioneered a Django-based REST service integrated with VueJS and ChatGPT to deliver an AI qualitative research assistant.
• Managed all software protocols, code repositories, and end-to-end software development and testing as the senior developer of the company.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Chatham, Ontario, Canada

• Designed a custom SPI protocol in Python and embedded C++ to remotely control a memory-scarce ATMega microcontroller from an ARM processor.
• Wrote an I2C interface in C++ to read data from GPS and accelerometer devices.
• Created the entire software suite for a custom collision-detection device.
• Modelled and 3D-printed housing units for various custom devices and PCBs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Performed motion planning research for biologically-inspired robots.
• Studied virtual nonholonomic constraints for abstract underactuated Hamiltonian control systems.
• Created and taught seminars to graduate students and professors of the Systems Control Lab at the University of Toronto. The seminars were on the FROST algorithm and the latest literature in the control of bipedal.
• Wrote the paper "From gymnastics to virtual nonholonomic constraints: energy injection, dissipation, and regulation for the acrobot", which was published in Transactions on Control Systems Technology. In this paper my.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Taught labs and seminars for several engineering and computer science courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Courses taught include:
• Robot Modeling and Control. Topics include Lagrangian modeling of mechanical systems, and control design (in MATLAB) for KUKA robotic arms.
• LTI control theory, in frequency domain. Topics include Bode plots, Nyquist analysis, lead/lag/PID control, controllability, observability, and more.
• LTI control theory, in state space. Topics include linearization of nonlinear systems, controllability, observability, equilibrium stabilization, and the Luenberger full-order observer.
• Introduction to software development with Python.
• Theory of Computation. Topics include mathematical/structural induction, natural languages, and finite automata.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Wrote a ROS driver in Python for Continental Automotive’s ARS430 Radar, which was used for autonomous braking and collision avoidance during the 2019 SAE/GM Autodrive Challenge.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• Invented a new machine learning algorithm using information theory by generalizing Strouse’s Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB) to use Rényi entropy.
• Applied this algorithm to clustering problems and showed better results than the classic DIB.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• Taught information theory, C++, and test-driven development to the developers of the Queen's University Satellite Design Team.
• Designed an information-theoretic algorithm to transmit information from low-earth orbit to ground 46% faster than Morse code, via LEDs mounted on a CubeSat.

Kanata, Ontario, Canada

• Created C++ software for 3D LiDAR machine vision systems used in mining and automation.
• Wrote a control suite to aim a PTZ camera at moving targets.
• Built a RESTful API, backend server, and AngularJS frontend from scratch, which allows customers to easily control the LiDAR from any web browser.
• Designed and implemented an API schema which remotely controlled the LiDAR's network interface card.
• Wrote an ARM architecture-based firmware bootloader to integrate software with newly developed LiDAR hardware.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Resolved issues with CAT5 and CAT6 ethernet jacks in hundreds of residence rooms within a 4-month period, allowing students to connect to the internet when they returned to school.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Designed a lightweight feedback system for the Queen's University Eco-Vehicle Team which feeds engine RPM data to a screen in the cockpit, allowing the driver to make informed decisions while racing an electric vehicle at competitions.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• Taught high school students Java and control theory to design and build a robot in six weeks.
• Managed the implementation of computer vision, robot programming and database maintenance, resulting in our team placing 3rd out of 35 overall in the competition.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Investigated the effects that C header files have on build times in open source systems.Wrote a technical report for a postdoc who used the results in their research.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Worked under a Postdoctoral Fellow to create a tool that expands abbreviations in source code variables using contextual information.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Taught myself SolidWorks and MATLAB from scratch in under one month.Modelled a robotic arm in SolidWorks and designed a MATLAB algorithm which generated movement in the model. This simulator was later used in engineering robotics labs.

Master Of Applied Science - Masc, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Systems Control Lab; Specialization In Robotics

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc (First-Class Honours, Dean'S Scholar), Mathematics Engineering; Specialization In Systems And Robotics

Capstone Thesis: Synthetic aperture radar image restoration via a Polya network contagion scheme