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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Leveraged Harmony SHR upper-extremity exoskeleton to tele-operate mobile industrial robots in the logistics sector. Lived at the intersection of user experience, software design, and real-time human management of autonomous systems.Led systems integration of perception, motion planning, (good old-fashioned) AI, cloud, DevOps, and frontend.

Austin, Texas, US

Launched Harmonic Bionic’s first product, the Harmony SHR upper-extremity neurorehabilitation exoskeleton. Cross-functionally managed and led the full IEC-62304 software lifecycle including project & product management, design & development, verification & validation, regulatory compliance, and manufacturing infrastructure.Continuously improved and.

Austin, Texas, US

Joined Harmonic Bionics as the first software engineer and bootstrapped the software engineering department.Designed, developed and shipped the Harmony SHR upper-extremity exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation. Led the full software lifecycle including project & product management, design & development, verification & validation, regulatory compliance, and.

Greenbelt, Maryland, US

Delivered autonomous guidance & navigation software for swarm spacecraft systems. Led the Cluster Flight Experiment for the Starling technology demonstration mission at NASA Ames. Oversaw all aspects of development and integration of the flight autonomy stack, networking & messaging infrastructure, CI/CD, and in-house SITL/HITL simulation testbeds..

Plantation, Florida, US

Led systems engineering for an in-house ASIC signal processing subsystem. Developed hard real-time embedded software and leveraged first-principles analysis to estimate hardware requirements including IC selection, memory, cache, and I/O. Performed initial bringup of prototype hardware and validated functionality and performance including quantization.

Austin, Texas, US

Co-founded Vitality Systems LLC. Designed & implemented HIPAA-compliant web applications for client-side interaction with medical documents and successfully marketed product to Texas' largest decentralized medical imaging provider.Spun down the company after delivery of product to focus on breaking into the aerospace industry.

Managed operations for an Austin-area live music production agency. Planned, budgeted, and hosted performances ranging from low-capacity private events to 10,000+ attendee shows featuring Top 40 artists. Directed advertising, promotion, finances, legal/contracting, business structure, and a team of over fifty employees.Left the company to develop a.

Austin, TX, US

Reverse-engineered open-source autonomous flight control system for graduate research team. Formulated multiple strategies for porting the system to a custom SoC for future research and development.

Washington, DC, US

Competed in a year-long, statewide academic competition for a selective summer internship at Johnson Space Center geared toward preparing students for careers at NASA. Was chosen as Director of the Management & Systems Integration Team, part of a 40-student task force directed with conducting a feasibility analysis on a manned mission to Mars leveraging.