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San Diego, California

Providence, Rhode Island

Was lead embedded programmer in a project that focuses on providing aircraft arrestment system solutions to the AAG application.Responsibilities included vector controls, advanced controls, modeling and simulation, algorithm development, software and hardware development, prototype development, embedded systems, testing, analysis, and documentation.

Created symbolic software tools to model the dynamics of nonholonomic systems. Composed C-language programs to integrate PWMs, ADCs, inertial sensors, encoders, and configure SPI and I2C protocols. Developed experimental embedded testing techniques to characterize actuator nonlinearities. Designed multiple time scale discrete feedback controllers to.

• Assisted in the development of a novel lab course that utilizes motion control applications to teach the fundamentals of embedded control system design. Created the pre-lab assignments, developed the laboratory.
• Nominated: 2012-13 CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant
• Recipient: 2013-14 ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
• Nominated: 2014-15 CETL/BP Outstanding Teaching Assistant
• Substitute Lecturer

Atlanta, GA

Developed lectures, created quizzes and exams, and provided laboratory guidance for a course covering a breadth of introductory electrical engineering topics. Taught undergraduate juniors and seniors topics that include the analysis and design of op-amp circuits, BJT amplifiers, combinatorial and sequential logic circuits, and ADC systems.

Atlanta, GA

• Designed and implemented a multi-axis position tracking feedback controller for the purpose of correcting human vision. Created a simulation model and designed a two timescale feedback controller, interfaced hardware.
• Two-axis reference position tracking achieved with a resolution of 200-micron

Fresno, CA

• Developed lectures and provided laboratory guidance for a novel analog and digital communications engineering lab course. Taught senior undergraduate and graduate students topics that include signals and systems.
• Instructor on record

Fresno, CA

Developed and documented software applications using Matlab real-time target to explore advanced control theory topics. Interfaced externally integrated hardware for data acquisition and actuator manipulation to create a platform for demonstrating sliding mode control and fuzzy logic control concepts.

Fresno, CA

Created experiments for a novel analog and digital communications engineering lab course. The developed laboratory exercises include signals and systems, modulation and demodulation, receiver architectures, operation of phase-lock loops, and use of eye diagrams in digital modulation schemes.

Fresno, CA

Developed lectures and provided laboratory guidance for a special topics course investigating magnetic levitation. Taught undergraduate juniors and seniors topics that include modeling, control design, data acquisition, and prototype fabrication.

Fresno, CA

Created laboratory exercises for a special topics course investigating magnetic levitation, and developed a working prototype. Subject matter included system modeling, stability analysis, and circuit board fabrication.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Eta Kappa NuEmphasis on Embedded Control of Two-Wheeled Inverted Systems

Master’S Degree, Engineering (Electrical Option)

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi• Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

• Summa Cum Laude Graduate • Valedictorian

Associate’S Degree, Electronic Technology

• Dean's list 5x, Graduate with Highest Honors