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Lincoln, NE, US

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

- Designed and implemented firmware for a pod to communicate with the console, robot, camera, and another robot over multiple buses using USB bulk transfer, UDP, uart dma, spi, I2C, GPIO pins, general purpose timers, FreeRTOS zero copy semantics, and direct to task notifications - designed and implemented firmware for a USB HID touchscreen that works on.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Implemented UART comms protocol as well as SPI accelerometer/gyroscope firmware on multiple microcontrollers
• Researched and put together writeup on the pros and cons of different RTOS options
• Refactored C++ codebase to work with new architecture, CMake, a custom built Linux kernel, an updated timer, and a new RS485 serial driver kernel module
• Implemented websocket comms protocols in C using both zephyr and freertos to communicate between remote devices and the console

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Ran multiple sprints to rotate expiring AWS IoT certificates, extending the lifetime value of >45% of Hudl’s cameras
• Avoided replacement campaigns for over 5,400 cameras, totaling $15,000,000 over the next 3 years
• Singlehandedly planned two initiatives and four epics based on user research, data analysis, and feedback received
• Obtained buy-in to maximize engineer efficiency via debugging, delivery, and image build/flashing tool improvements
• Presented weekly to dev teams, support, finance, executives, and the entire hardware business unit of 100+ employees
• Used SQL, Redash, Looker, Jira, and Confluence to collect and present information to key stakeholders

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Implemented autonomous emergency braking (AEB), PID, wall following, follow the gap, and mapping algorithms
• Ran and refined all algorithms on an in-depth simulator and on f1tenth autonomous vehicles using C++ and ROS

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Mentored 39 students through discovering a problem space and working through the product discovery process
• Supervised and evaluated customer interviews, prototypes and iterations on design feedback, and business models

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Crafted custom integrations for third-party baseball tools to streamline input and analysis of extensive existing data
• Designed intuitive spreadsheet ingestion workflows for coaches to input teams, players, and statistics at scale
• Worked closely with the team to plan future features based on user research and direct feedback from beta users
• Technologies Used: TypeScript, Python, and Firebase

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Created over 75 custom C# data processing pipelines to parse and visualize data for over 25 government agencies
• Maximized extensibility by creating automated processes to identify the correct pipeline for any file using Regex