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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I provide technical review and oversight of R&T derisking and development efforts, as well as risk management, product strategy, and coordination of grants and collaborations with a view towards product roadmap and overall autonomy platform research strategy.

Toronto, Canada Area

My main role is to manage the Next-Generation Positioning and Autonomous Train platform evolution and roadmap, and provide overall technical strategy. In this role, I frequently interface and liaise with internal and external stakeholders to communicate and coordinate program directions and innovation partnerships. In order to progress as efficiently as.

Toronto, Canada Area

As Sensors and Algorithms team leader, I was responsible for all aspects of design, development and testing of onboard characterization system, including integration of next-generation controllers and perception systems. In additition to coordinating and managing team members, I developed and oversaw relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Thales Canada Transportation Solutions

• Responsible for management of requirements and implentation of system design changes for CBTC contribution to consortium-level Doha Metro System Requirement Specification. Coordinate and interface with customer and.
• Define and modify CBTC system-level and detailed… Show more
• Define and modify CBTC system-level and detailed design requirement specifications across multiple subsystems. Address requirement-driven, contract-driven, and customer-driven design changes. Compose subsystem ICDs.
• Provide engineering support to internal R&D.
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• Contribute annually, leading a small team to design, develop and deliver complete 1-week intensive courses in bio-inspired robotics (and, recently, computer vision) to advanced secondary school visiting summer students.

Utias

• Investigated the dynamics of information in evolutionary algorithms, centred on an hypothesized principle of increasing mutual information.
• Designed, developed and implemented mobile robot state estimators.
• Spearheaded a joint Ottawa/Toronto experimental evolution research collaboration.

Office Of The Vice-Dean (Undergraduate)

• Designed and conducted survey studies of 1st-year undergraduate engineering students in transition, examining motivation, intellectual curiosity, grit, study habits, and learning styles.
• Acted as lead researcher in Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) Development of Analytic Rubrics for Competency Assessment (DARCA) project.
• Conducted research into causal links between academic intervention programs, study habits, and subsequent academic performance.
• Performed… Show more
• Performed mapping and analysis of 1st-year engineering graduate attributes for Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Graduate Attributes process, as a member of the Faculty Graduate Attributes Committee. Show.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed and instructed complete courses in undergraduate engineering programming (in C) and static mechanics.
• Supervised teaching assistants.

Honeywell Aerospace, Mississauga

• Acted as Test Lead for system qualification testing. Developed and executed test plans with respect to system requirements, and analyzed test results. Coordinated test schedules and participated in biweekly and monthly.
• Analysed, reviewed and implemented problem reports and test problem reports. Designed and conducted simulation and RPS tests as necessary.
• Constructed and reviewed system test vectors for software… Show more
• Constructed and reviewed system test vectors for software testing.
• Investigated modifications to non-real-time thermal model for real-time operation. Reviewedthermal model implementation, coordinated with Torrance modeling and simulation team, andprovided updated controls models. Show.

Neptec Design Group

• Provided real-time support for Laser Camera System (LCS) during Space Shuttle thermal inspection for 15 flights from STS-114 to STS-135 (Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX).
• Acted as LCS Lead Analyst, coordinating all Analysis Team preparation and support activities.
• Developed, validated, characterized and qualified tools, processes, and algorithms for use during in-flight console support and analysis tasks.
• Conducted project-critical and program-critical feasibility, trade and… Show more
• Conducted project-critical and program-critical feasibility, trade and performance studies for 2D and 3D algorithms, sensors, and systems.
• Performed multiple vision system validation, verification, and critical system characterization tasks necessary for vision system development, upgrades and maintenance.

Utias

• Designed, developed, tested and constructed a complete overhead targetless tracking system incorporating custom software in C++ interfacing via Ethernet with Pleora iPORT framegrabber modules and custom hardware for.

Kanata, ON

• (Full-time, part-time, term and contract work)
• Acted as Lead Software Developer for prototype home health system. Designed, developed, and tested real-time GUI-based VB/C++ software interfacing with telecom and PIC hardware.
• Conducted commercial camera characterization studies.
• Designed, developed, coded and tested experimental point-to-point encryption system.

Steacie Institute For Molecular Sciences, Ottawa, ON

• Characterized piezoelectric tube scanners for tip manipulation in scanning tunneling microscopy.
• Designed a laser interferometry method to measure deflections of tube scanners that incorporated custom VB/C code for data acquisition and performance analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd) (Abd), Space Robotics Group (Supervisor: Dr. G.M.T. D'Eleuterio)

Activities and Societies: • Prospective Professors in Training (PPIT) certification • Teaching Fundamentals certification • Advanced.

Master Of Applied Science (Masc), Space Robotics Group (Supervisor: Dr. G.M.T. D'Eleuterio)

• Specialization in Computer Vision and Control • Thesis: "Multi-camera Benchmark Localization for Mobile Robot Networks"

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Aerospace Stream C (Electronics And Systems), With High Honours

• M.M.MacOdrum Scholarship (Sep2000), Hyman Soloway Scholarship (Sep1999) • Thesis: "SciDR Electrical Power Subsystem (EPS) Preliminary.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Applied Physics, Dean'S Honour List

• Minor in Mathematics • Specialization in Semiconductor and Solid-State Physics • Winner of Xerox Work Term Report Award • Thesis: "Pulse.