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Quality Engineer for Simulink Scheduling and Timing

Cambridge, Ma

• Wrote unit tests for mirrored database features including dejournaling and scalability for InterSystems IRIS database software• Used Cache ObjectScript (in-house object oriented programming language) to write automated tests• Collaborated with developers to ensure that software functionality meets requirements• Created and maintained tests related to customer specifications and issues• Implemented high throughput stress tests on multi-machine networks• Developed testing for server operating systems including Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE, and AIX

Greater Detroit Area

Electrification Driver Data Work Group• Completed multi-component software builds within GM toolset environment (IBM suite)• Debugged C language programming for vehicle controller handling errors• Wrote and maintained multiple sets of functional requirements within IBM Rational DOORS• Implemented updates and new feature logic within MATLAB Simulink models for electrified vehicles• Improved pre-existing Simulink models by expanding stateflow logic• Completed virtual testing of software features on vehicle test bench and using in-house MATLAB suite• Communicated with international GM development facilities to guide additional testing

Stochastic Modeling of Biomaterials• Used bound estimation to determine mechanical properties of a random heterogeneous biomaterial• Applied correlation functions to determine effective microstructure properties of the material• Executed a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to digitally construct 2D slices of the biomaterial• Member of a multidisciplinary research team comprised of bioengineers, chemists, and medical professionals focused on creating a new biomaterial

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Computational Biomechanics• Constructed brain white matter fiber tracts within a finite element model for simulation of the human head• Utilized BrainSuite MRI analysis software and MATLAB to include diffusion tensor imaging of fiber tracts to regions of a brain model

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Engineering Design and Human Centered Design• Verified creation of manikin database for consistency between models using Python within Jack by Siemens• Used multivariate optimization and regression techniques including principal component analysis (PCA) to create a method to select a subset of design manikins from the database using JavaScript and MATLAB• Created 3D models of Formula SAE drivers utilizing complex data sets and multivariate statistics

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Classes: • Mechanical Design• DynamicsResponsibilities:• Held weekly office hours and graded exams and homework • Periodically instructed class for the lecturing professor

West Lafayette, In

Class: Dynamics and Basic Mechanics• Held daily office hours and graded exams and daily homeworkClass: Introduction to Engineering: Transforming Ideas to Innovation• In class four hours a week to assisted students with technical, homework, and computer problems• Graded exams, homework, and projects

West Lafayette, In

• Research in nonlinear viscoelastic materials.• Conducted impulse tests on foam samples • Ordinary differential equation (ODE) modeling of the sample reaction • MATLAB script produced to model the recreated response from ODE

Hannover Area, Germany

Conducted finite element analysis on the reaction of tire tread on ice in ABAQUS

Master Of Science (M.S.), Engineering Science And Mechanics, 3.78

Area of Focus: Random Heterogeneous Materials Coursework: Advanced Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics, Finite Elements, Elasticity Theory.

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering, 3.80

Areas of Focus: Engineering Design and Human Centered Design Thesis Topic: Selection of Digital Human Models from a Predetermined.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering