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Zeeland, Michigan, United States

Hudsonville

• Instilling a passion for STEM in youth by fostering understanding, excitement, and collaboration across peers and even diverse cultures.
• Mentoring and teaching engineering through leading questions resulting in 2 different teams advancing to the world's tournament

• Engage with customers to refine requirements, establish technology architecture, and develop an implementation strategy that aligns budget and scope to build customer confidence and grow the number of customer accounts.
• I proactively developed insights from tech conferences and research to drive strategic investments, enhance component selection, and deliver innovative solutions, enabling product pivots and added value for customers.
• Diagnosed and resolved critical design failures in existing products, utilizing analytical skills to identify root causes and implement changes, resulting in successful relaunches at multiple beta sites with zero.
• Created prototype hardware and firmware for high-speed RGB sensors, deployed to the customer for testing, resulting in a patent-pending innovation for the customer.
• By employing Software Problem-Solving Expertise, I transformed a problematic prosthetic knee algorithm, resolving a six-month challenge by leveraging my holistic system insights and sensor expertise to swiftly advance.

Zeeland, Michigan

• Championed Esight Go HW development, a pioneering wearable vision aid for macular degeneration, honored with “Best of Innovation in Digital Health” and “Best of CES2024 Health” awards. Heavy collaboration with.
• Leading interdisciplinary collaboration, I guided the system design as the lead hardware engineer for a groundbreaking medical lighting project. Redefining surgical room illumination, I spearheaded efforts to define.
• Designed ISO26262 automotive cameras for digital mirrors, pioneering fault mode analysis to ensure safety. Resulted in a revolutionary camera enhancing user experience with higher resolution and a more natural-looking.
• Developed hardware for a compact Video analysis and prototype platform based on Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ FPGAs (ZU5EV), facilitating faster proof of concept iteration and bolstering customer confidence in Gentex’s.
• Innovation thought leader resulting in Patent US11263986B2: System and method for display fault monitoring

Grand Rapids, Michigan

• Led hardware team strategy, process improvement, sales and marketing strategy development, and effective communication to enhance client confidence and build company growth.
• Led and executed R&D projects such as a Xilinx(AMD) Zynq Ultrascale+ SOM and an I.mx6sx SOM.
• Cultivated a collaborative environment and empowered engineers through mentoring and peer reviews of technical work, driving their professional growth and readiness for increased responsibilities.
• Led technical engagement with potential customers understanding customer needs and developing plans and proposals to solve their problems.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Mastered schematic design, PCB layout, signal integrity simulation, firmware development, and system integration across diverse customer projects.
• Engineered an FPGA-based video product featuring 7x SerDes Digital HD video inputs, FPGA, DDR3, RS485, involved in schematic design, layout, solder rework, VHDL, and firmware development.
• Think creatively and outside the box for the customer. Developed a novel, battery-free, sensor to relay sensor data wirelessly that led to a patented design used as a differentiating feature in customer product.
• Integrated and optimized USB and Ethernet drivers for Medical customers enabling more link budget and more spare processing.

• Developed Boot, BSP, driver, Self-Test firmware for the Vehicle Management computer, Mission Management Computer, and Navigation Management Computer for X47B aircraft.
• Innovative problem solving on the inherent instability of a flying wing needing a fast recovery assuming a fault occurs resulting in Patent US8209526B2 awarded for: “Method and systems for restarting a flight control.

Developed and maintained an automated test environment to regression test application changes against customer requirements for a Bluetooth telematics product.

Worked as a residential electrician's apprentice