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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Technical lead for a new cross-platform firmware development project using ZephyrRTOS and C++. • Architected multi-threaded event driven firmware application.• Designed object oriented abstract interfaces to facilitate multiple system configurations and unit testing.• Created reproducible development environment using docker containers. • Managed consultant implementing new state of the art servo control algorithm.• Planned and maintained project roadmap for task breakdown and agile sprint planning for small development team.• Worked with stakeholders to identify firmware requirements.• Embedded dev-ops with GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate unit testing, hardware based regression testing and firmware release.• Implemented physics based algorithm to fix longstanding bug in existing product firmware.

Boston, Ma, Us

• High-level contributor on innovative surgically implanted prosthesis linked through the Azure cloud, producing first-of-a-kind medical systems for monitoring prosthesis performance in the OR during implantation, the physician’s office during follow-up, and from the patient’s home.• Implemented Bluetooth Low Energy over-the-air update using TI SimpleLink MCU and SDK for battery-powered Industrial IoT sensor pack.• Developed bare metal firmware for SiliconLabs EMF32-based battery powered medical sensor system. Released firmware for verification and manufacturing.• Architected and implemented STM32/FreeRTOS threading and access control for connecting to an external WiFi modem via AT command set.• Embedded Linux application development for TI AM3358-based system.• Collaborated with project managers to create task and schedule estimates and deliver status reports to stakeholders.• Contributed to business development and developing customer relationships, including software engineering quotes and customer meetings.• Major contributor for IEC-62304-based medical software development process, including verification process and coding standards. Created document templates for software processes.

Neenah, Wi, Us

• Owned hardware bringup and integration testing for custom PCBAs, developed product firmware using ARM Cortex-M processors, NFC, ultra-sonic transducers, SPI based displays.• Partnered with hardware engineers on architecture, design, implementation and delivery of prototype battery powered embedded systems. Optimized energy use for battery life and NFC energy harvesting restrictions. • Developed firmware using the ThreadX RTOS.• Developed medical device firmware conforming to IEC62304 based software processes. • Contributed to business development and developing customer relationships, including software engineering quotes, customer meetings, project kickoff, requirements gathering for commercial non-medical devices.

Glen Allen, Va, Us

Embedded systems engineer on contract to Panasonic Automotive for connected vehicles infrastructure and after market vehicle-to-everything, V2X, system. Second generation hardware bring-up of embedded Linux system for CAN bus normalization, including:* Electrical testing of PCB.* BSP: U-Boot pin mux setup and boot script for board detection. Linux device trees.* Yocto based Linux distribution management.* I2C, SPI and CAN interface testing and debugging.* CAN protocol reverse engineering.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Design and develop algorithms and software for large science models. Refactor tightly coupled existing code into stand-alone libraries with well defined interfaces, implement improvements to test system to ensure behavior is not changed by refactoring. Duties also include integration, code review and testing of development branches and executing infrastructure improvements to simplify and improve workflow, testing and productivity.* Assist other software engineers and scientists with software design, debug product issues, and creation of new test systems and suites for model components.* Created a reusable software library; decreasing the amount of time needed to debug the software library or implement new features and provided easier science verification due to increased flexibility of the system. - Refactored code to isolate it from the main product. - Developed front end driver, build system and custom regression test driver in Python. - Integrated unit test framework, regression test driver setup and continuous integration testing with GitHub and Travis-CI.* Developed workflow optimization and new tools for integrating open source science contributions into software product, resulting in scientists using new tools for preliminary testing, significantly increasing integration rate of branches from 5 to 17 in 12 weeks and delivering all planned science development.* Managed and implemented custom transition of multiple codebases from SVN and Bugzilla to Git and Github. Included 12+ years of trunk history and active development branches.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Contributing developer to an open source subsurface flow and reactive transport simulator. Assisted with maintenance and testing of the land model portion of the earth systems model maintained by NCAR.* Collaborated with colleagues at NCAR to integrate code more efficiently, assisted with refactoring and design of product resulting in significant decrease in integrating code changes.* Successfully collaborated with science teams linking a subsurface simulator to a global land model, turning a prototype into maintainable production code. - Modularized interface code, provided clean API, code cleanup, and simplification. - Built custom automated test system of networked Linux physical and virtual machines for continuous integration. - The combined product was easier to maintain, test and deliver reliable science publications with less development effort.Primary software developer and aquatic geochemist responsible for design and implementation of the biogeochemical module for DOE’s new high performance subsurface flow and transport simulator.* Designed and implemented new a C API and wrapper library allowing flow and transport models to access different biogeochemical reaction libraries through a standard interface. Demonstrated API by linking an existing reaction library to an external simulator.* Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams at national labs to produce a new state of the art numerical simulator in C++ and Boost using modern tools incorporating software industry best practices, resulting in a new library that was easily integrated into several host applications.* Delivered science faster by introducing automation into the development of software; automated unit and regression testing through a continuous integration system.* Mentored scientists on adoption of revision control, testing and best practices for scientific software development.* Management of research data using a SQLite database.

Graduate Certificate In Embedded Systems Engineering, Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering

Ph.D., Civil, Environmental, And Architectural Engineering

M.S., Civil, Environmental, And Architectural Engineering

B.S., Civil And Environmental Engineering