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College Station, Texas, United States

Lead of small development team creating a Distributed Battery Management System for 2025 Race Season.- Independently developed mixed-signal PCB in Altium for monitoring battery cell voltages and temperatures using TI BQ79616.- Working to develop STM32-based control board for communicating with multiple monitor pcbs, flagging faults, and communicating with the vehicle.- Using Jira to track timeline and task responsibility.

College Station, Texas, United States

At Texas A&M Formula SAE Electric, we build a competition-ready race car in nine months. The chassis, suspension geometry, aerodynamics package, high voltage battery, drive motors and inverters, and low voltage electronics systems are redesigned from the ground up every year in order to give students one of the best engineering project experiences available in college.I was elected as the Chief Electrical Engineer for the 2024 season.Roles:Accountable for entire vehicle High and Low Voltage systems in design, testing, and competition.Discipline high resolution timeline with subteam leads, reporting to project manager.Teach basic circuit design, PCB design, and soldering skills to members.Manage documentation for design presentations and internal records.Ownership:Designed high-level Low Voltage architecture, including power management, breaking up scope for team members to ownDesigned and built the Low Voltage HarnessManaged troubleshooting for High and Low Voltage full-vehicle integration

College Station, Texas, United States

Design cycle: 1 yearTime commitment: 10-25 hours/weekAs an electronics subteam member, designed low voltage system circuits to ensure driver safety and normal function of car.- Used CAD to design custom circuit boards and selected components while considering simplicity, cost, weight, and size.- Applied troubleshooting skills to detect faults in induvidual boards, wiring harnesses, and the full car.- Presented design decisions to the team, justifying choices and receiving input, while also giving feedback to others.- Integrated with other subteams' designs to support all sensor/controller interaction.- Assembled boards with SMD components by hand-soldering and reflow oven.Responsible for design, testing, manufacturing:Fault latching circuit- Acts as a part of the high voltage Shutdown Circuit, detecting fault or disconnection of critical safety devices. Required by rules, tested by FSAE judges.Dashboard circuit and waterproof housing- Displays faults of above circuit and contains vehicle start button. Required by rules, tested by FSAE judges.Activation Sequence circuit- Receives start button, brake, and shutdown circuit input, and sends enable signal to motor controllers when specific conditions are met. Triggers a Ready To Drive Sound when active. Required by rules, tested by FSAE judges.Data Aquisition CAN-BUS- A serial communication protocol that allows fast transmission of sensor and status data between nodes. Fully designed all message IDs and data packaging.Partially responsible for design of full-car wiring architecture and manufacturing of the vehicle harness.

Houston, Texas, United States

Employed through the Texas A&M RAD Lab to work at Johnson Space Center. As part of the Space Modular Manipulator team:Fabricated and tested Summer 2023 rotary encoder, wrote 500 lines of C code.Developed space-rated motor controller testbed for actuating robotic joints.Updated FPGA code to newer hardware using VHDL in Libero SOC.

Bryan–College Station, Texas, United States

I worked to further the robotics research of Dr. Robert Ambrose, TEES Director for Space and Robotics. The vision of this summer's research team in RAD Lad was to design, develop, and test unmanned robots for defense and extraterrestrial endeavors in partnership with NASA's Summer Robotics Academy at Johnson Space Center.As part of the Manipulator team, to create a prototype modular robotic arm, I:- Designed an integrated sensor array PCB to transmit rotational position over CAN Bus.- Integrated off-the-shelf components with custom machined parts within allowable tolerance.- Learned to design parts for manufacturing in SOLIDWORKS and include proper GD&T.- Reviewed design choices with NASA engineers calling from Johnson Space Center.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Formula SAE Electric, IEEE

5.47 (5 Point Weighted Scale)

Activities and Societies: Westwood Robotics- Chief Engineer, National Honor Society, Chamber Choir, UIL Classical GuitarTook four-year.