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Camas, Washington, United States

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Circuit Design and Optimization for Legacy Products: Utilized Altium Designer to maintain and update legacy circuit board designs, preserving critical knowledge and enabling seamless design updates. Implemented optimization strategies to enhance the cost, performance, and manufacturability of low-noise, precision amplifier, and filter-based analog circuitry. Identified and patched system-level design flaws as necessary while maintaining full backwards compatibility. This resulted in improved system stability and reduced instrument downtime. Supply Chain Management and Proactive Redesign: Implemented strategic measures to secure the supply chain and optimize procurement for PCB components and assemblies. Proactively redesigned embedded hardware systems to anticipate market changes, ensuring product longevity, adaptability, and cost-efficiency. Product Development and Compliance: Played an integral role in product development processes, actively contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and ensuring compliance with ISO 9000 standards, EMI/EMC, and CE certification.Manufacturing Efficiency: Transferred engineering prototypes to the manufacturing floor, streamlining production processes for timely delivery of high-quality products. Optimized assembly, optical alignment, electrical tuning, and software calibration of critical instrument sub-assemblies. Collaboration and Root Cause Analysis: Collaborated with test technicians, senior engineers, and cross-functional teams to improve component performance, optimize test processes, and conduct root-cause analysis on batch failures. Contributed to significant yield improvement on electro-optic and piezo-based transducer systems.Research and Development: Reviewed literature for product improvement. Executed test plans for critical changes improving product lifetime, performance, and yields.

Beavercreek, Ohio, United States

Wrote VHDL and testbenches to pass Python unit tests before on-board timing verification. The code enables the command and control for a low-cost beamformer backend of a radar sensor.- Wrote and tested RTL for a pipelined complex multiplier block for high data rate applications optimized to use 25% fewer hard multiplication blocks. - Wrote RTL for a reconfigurable multiple channel linear frequency modulator.- Wrote and tested RTL for a multiple-FPGA system that could distribute SPI commands to more configurable devices than would otherwise be possible with limited IO lanes. Troubleshot digital and RF issues with a multidisciplinary team during board bring-up for a low-cost RFSoC beam steering radar application. - Verified RF performance of completed boards by comparing channel-to-channel and chip-to-chip variances to datasheet tolerances.- Eliminated spurious behavior by identifying a limitation of vendor chip SPI write-all mode configuration capabilities.- Proved that a custom board was safe to power on for the first time by showing that a measured short-circuit on the power rails was instead the combined sleep-mode passive current draw of onboard chips.

Oxford, Ohio

Ran my own exterior painting start-up.Recruited, hired, trained, and led myteam of 10 painters and site managers.

Seattle, Wa

Worked on the leading franchise to help produce over $500,000 of painting. Lead crews of 1-5 painters on multi-week projects. Consistently ensured customer satisfaction while beating budget goals.

Oxford, Ohio

Provided Enterprise Machine Deployment and Technical Support for employees across the Office of Enrollment Management and Student Success.

Portland, Oregon Area

Assisted customers, answered questions, provided information. Boosted loss prevention efforts.

Portland, Oregon Area

Recruited new customers and drivers to the Lyft platform.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, Electrical & Computer Engineering Student Advisory Council, Theta.

Education record

Activities and Societies: FRC Robotics - Served as Project Manager and member of electrical team. Band - Served as a Trombonist.