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San Francisco Bay Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories - Spectrum Systems Lab− Led and assisted multiple FPGA development efforts from proposal and requirements definition through system testing and customer delivery. Includes block definition, RTL design, simulation, synthesis, clocking/reset architecture design of novel IP cores and top-level system block.− Extensive experience with SoC design on FPGAs to implement control loops and signal processing algorithms using hardware and software.− Prototyped radar processing algorithms in Python and then ported them to C++ to run on GPUs using CUDA/ArrayFire.− Proposed, won, and led small engineering teams on multiple R&D programs.− Verification test planning, implementation, and execution to validate hardware design meets customer requirements. Automated as much as possible with Python scripting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Newark, De

− Implemented modern signal denoising algorithms for processing millimeter wave (mmW) imagery (Nonlocal means, anisotropic filtering)− Utilized mathematical image sharpening techniques to improve sharpness in mmW imagery− Performed image fusion of mmW and visual frames using various methods (discrete wavelet transform, object/region detection and blend, and edge detection and overlay)

Newark, De

− Worked on analysis and detection techniques (i.e. side-channel analysis, functional testing) for hardware trojans in digital logic designs. Wrote Verilog code targeted to Xilinx FPGAs to stimulate a device-under-test in real-time to test out various detection schemes.

Master’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering, 3.99

Activities and Societies: NCAA Division 1 Men's Soccer, IEEE-HKN, Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor SocietyConcentration.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 3.99

Activities and Societies: NCAA Division I Men's Soccer, IEEE-HKN, Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor SocietyGraduated Summa.