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St. John's, NL

• Member of software and operations teams for Iceberg ASV, a designteam at Memorial University competing in the international RoboBoatcompetition.
• Developing software for an autonomous surface vessel with ROS andthe Gazebo simulator. Created software to navigatethrough gates and around buoys to complete tasks.
• Managing finances, and contributing to fundingapplications and technical reports.

Mount Pearl, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Researched cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the maritime industry;Identified the NMEA2000 network as a significant risk.
• Developed a platform to research potential cyberattacks anddemonstrate impacts to industry professionals; The platform consists ofa 1 m boat with a working autopilot and NMEA2000 network.
• Designed malicious NMEA connectors to record and modify sensor data.Connectors can cause the boat to steer off course, send false sensorreadings, disable alarms, and modify AIS messages.

Kanata, Ontario, Canada

• Conducted characterization and compliance testing for high-speedoptical transmitters.
• Analyzed data to select optimal equalization setting for opticaltransmitters.
• Design Verification Testing.

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Developed a customizable digital traffic generator in SystemVerilog to test and measure efficiency of a High Bandwidth Memory FPGA
• Verification and validation of HDL designs to determine functionality and timing requirements

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Developed test for 3D image filters and encoding/decoding methods in python and C++
• Simulated HDL designs in Vivado Design Suite to determine their functionality and timing requirements.
• Tested FPGA builds and performed debugging on source code.

St John’s, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Coached youth summer camps for children ages 4-15
• Designed training sessions for each team’s needs and ran sessions alongside coaching staff

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Completed a 6-week internship at the Hoffman Laboratory at Harvard University
• Created a user interface for an effusion cell temperature control and implemented remote monitoring and control.
• Built and tested voltage bias adders for a Scanning Tunneling Microscope system, identified the most precise design.
• Presented Final Research Paper to Peers and Professors at RSI Presentation at Massachusetts Insitute of Technology