Performed project management, technical assessment, evaluation, reporting and implementation of electrical, mechanical, and optical systems in telecommunication products.Key projects:o Directed processing of backlog end-of-life components inventory. Lead team of 4 engineers to mitigate 151 components marked as End-Of-Life, reducing opex significantly within 75% of the projected time.o Lead team to find root-cause of a critical failure affecting key customer systems. Analyzed optical, electrical, and mechanical systems to find the failure mode in a critical photodiode assembly, eliminating service outages and an Innovation Award Nomination.o Designed stations and experiments for key electrical and optical performance parameter testing. Performed more than 80 evaluations with a variety of laboratory techniques deriving in multimillion revenue recue.o Filed 5 innovation disclosures, resulting in 2 patent filings, with 1 in publication.- DVT of optical transmitters/receivers, EDFAs, RF amplifiers, etc. - Manufacturing site support, cost containment/reductions, troubleshooting, EOL, etc. - New components evaluation/quality assurance, research for product improvements, innovation.- - Technical knowledge of RF test equipment: network analyzers, electrical and optical spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, RF power meters, signal generators, etc. - RF measurements and experience with DOCSIS, OFDM, PONs, etc.

• Taught more than 10 university level courses for 100+ undergrad engineering students.• Tutored winning innovation contest teams with Electrical Engineering projects.

Characterization of optical nonlinear properties of nanomaterials such as metallic nanoparticles and nanorods. Results:- Two first author publications.- Reduced 50% laser pulse shots for same experimental traces by improving on statistical and experimental methodology.- Knowledge transfer on experimental methodologies.

• Automated experiments with programming and scripting languages, increasing efficiency of data acquisition by 50%.• Performed research with optical experiments with fiber optics, lasers, amplifiers and free-space optics deriving in many conference proceedings and 6 peer-reviewed articles.• Developed computation software to implement novel physical models for experiment simulations.

Internship, Chief Engineer Salvador Zazueta. Development of embedded systems using the Xilinx Spartan 3 and Altera Cyclone IV platforms. - Designed and implemented NIOS II and picoBlaze embedded microcontrollers. - Designed and implemented fast memory arrays for high speed applications. - Developed and tested boot drivers for data extraction automation.