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New York, United States

Peoria, Illinois, United States

• Confirmed viability of autogenerated Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) C++ code to be used for new Orion spacecraft
• Implemented changes to Mode Transition and State Transfer systems in Orion to suit Software Requirement Specifications
• Read through all source material to familiarize myself with specific Orion systems and general architecture

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Made video capturing/recording software for GenICam-integrated cameras using C#, C++, and Python
• Built user-friendly UI to interact with camera software using C#/WPF, which was deployed in the final release
• Rigorously debugged software using.NET, Visual Studio, and Windows 10 tools

Greater New York City Area

• Managed a team of 18 programmers using the Scrum framework to delegate tasks and integrate different software features
• Enforced documentation/Git workflow standards to harmonize integration of features into each other and into the robot
• Made, scheduled, and delivered lectures on topics in robotics (up to 3 per week) to newcomers to the team
• Made wireless communication protocols (robot to Intel Nuc) using MQTT/C/Python for the ESP8266 chip
• Implemented robot localization with stereoscopic camera and ARTags, OpenCV; integrated using Robot Operating System
• Improved robot stability while operating autonomously using a PID controller

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Made long range (10km) wireless communication software using the LoRa protocol and tested it with range trials
• Wrote embedded C code for the STM32WL series of chips as part of a distributed home security application
• Developed, debugged, and compiled C code using IAR EWARM toolchain for ARM microchips
• Jury-rigged transmitter and receiver testing apparatus to get accurate range and bandwidth usage data

Greater New York City Area

• Surveyed construction sites with GoPro/Sennheiser Ambeo to build training data for urban noise-identifying ML program
• Made Python scripts to equalize, merge, and augment video clips using moviepy while maintaining statistical integrity
• Made Progressive Web App using React Native to crowdsource training data labels through Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Annotated all collected video clips to make “ground truth” data for comparison with crowdsourced data

Greater Boston Area

• Developed website using React.js to display -omic data to non-medically trained users in a concise and understandable way
• Participated in design phase, producing mockups to make website interface as user-friendly as possible
• Participated in development of augmented reality program to identify average bacterial properties of household items

Greater New York City Area

• Used OpenCV to make a robot autonomously detect and target brightly colored obstacles
• Wrote code to teleoperate the robot with keyboard/Xbox controller using sensor data
• Established communications between devices through a wire using UART and I2C, experimented with SPI
• Worked on a parts database for the robotics lab which helped to prevent overspending of limited resources
• Found nuances in competition rules and suggested changes in robot design and strategy

Greater Boston Area

• Coded state controller to switch autonomous racecar’s state between obstacles, integrated all components with Robot Operating System
• Implemented line follower using OpenCV,
• Coded and fine-tuned PID controller to stabilize car
• Used 180° LIDAR and made a mathematical formula to localize car

Greater New York City Area

• Worked on design of a 3D printed prosthetic hand using electroactive materials in place of artificial muscles
• Conducted material research on electroactive materials
• Programmed components of hand using MyoWare Arduino sensors.
• Contributed to CAD of hand using Autodesk Inventor

Greater New York City Area

• Developed parts of iOS app using separately made mockups and Xcode/Swift
• Took over full iOS development for the remainder of my employment after lead iOS developer left unexpectedly, since only Android devs remained in the company
• Worked in a small team of engineers, designers, and managers following the Agile workflow

Bs - Computer Science, Computer Science

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