Technical leader, mentor, and driver of innovation.My extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration has been pivotal in resolving technical, system, and organizational challenges, significantly enhancing customer satisfaction and company value. As a mentor for T-Mobile's 5G Accelerator, I advised a startup on next-gen product development, providing strategic guidance and technical expertise. While sitting on the board for the Zephyr Project, I provided strategic leadership and… Show more Technical leader, mentor, and driver of innovation.My extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration has been pivotal in resolving technical, system, and organizational challenges, significantly enhancing customer satisfaction and company value. As a mentor for T-Mobile's 5G Accelerator, I advised a startup on next-gen product development, providing strategic guidance and technical expertise. While sitting on the board for the Zephyr Project, I provided strategic leadership and governance, influencing critical decisions and guiding the project's direction. Additionally, I led the architectural design for a new product concept using Zephyr and implemented essential features of the product's codebase, including secure settings, data validation, and communication protocols. Show less

Built a brand new hardware development capability within the company, from hiring the first-ever embedded software engineer to leading a team of over 40 incredibly talented professionals. During this role, I balanced the project budget to hire needed technical expertise and program management, established the team's direction and priority in re-usable architectures, and proposed new product ideas to senior leadership.I am proud of building and leading one of the most technically… Show more Built a brand new hardware development capability within the company, from hiring the first-ever embedded software engineer to leading a team of over 40 incredibly talented professionals. During this role, I balanced the project budget to hire needed technical expertise and program management, established the team's direction and priority in re-usable architectures, and proposed new product ideas to senior leadership.I am proud of building and leading one of the most technically, geographically, and ethnically diverse teams within my organization and work with each member to grow their career within and beyond the company.While leading this team, we have launched the company's first internally developed hardware product, provided technical leadership on four other hardware products, produced T-Mobile's first-ever development kit (DevEdge CAT-M), and multiple concurrent development projects in the works. Show less

Providing hardware leadership to define and build products, features, and platforms that deeply integrate hardware, software, and services. Helping create and drive the strategy, vision, and roadmap, with a high degree of ownership over critical features and the customer experience.Working closely with engineering, operations, other product managers, and key stakeholders to bring features and products to market, and grow business opportunities.

Responsible for all hardware and firmware development for the Wally system including overseeing two other engineers and driving the process. Primary engineering contact for all manufacturing and supply vendors. Brought four connected devices to market with additional prototypes in development.

Engineering lead for all hardware products for Wally Home which includes high-level architecture design, feature scope and prioritization, and interacting directly with customers to gather input for future direction.Primary hardware engineer role includes creating the preliminary schematic, directing ODM development, and reviewing joint development designs.Architect and developer for the sensor product firmware including refactoring vendor stack code to leverage object-oriented form of… Show more Engineering lead for all hardware products for Wally Home which includes high-level architecture design, feature scope and prioritization, and interacting directly with customers to gather input for future direction.Primary hardware engineer role includes creating the preliminary schematic, directing ODM development, and reviewing joint development designs.Architect and developer for the sensor product firmware including refactoring vendor stack code to leverage object-oriented form of C, ensuring product reliability, and ensuring features meet product requirements.Collaborate with development team to connect sensor products to the rest of the system including user interactions directly with the device and through apps. Show less

Lead embedded engineer for low power, long life, wireless sensors that help homeowners protect and learn about their home. Responsible for selecting hardware components that meet functional requirements while maintaining an extremely low current consumption. Developed maintainable and robust firmware using FreeRTOS, the GNU tool chain, and C programming. Using Python, created multiple test and verification tools to estimate battery life, analyze data in the cloud, and provide manufacturing… Show more Lead embedded engineer for low power, long life, wireless sensors that help homeowners protect and learn about their home. Responsible for selecting hardware components that meet functional requirements while maintaining an extremely low current consumption. Developed maintainable and robust firmware using FreeRTOS, the GNU tool chain, and C programming. Using Python, created multiple test and verification tools to estimate battery life, analyze data in the cloud, and provide manufacturing tools. Show less

Product development and innovative solutions to solve customer's RFID needs. Lead hardware engineer for three products from idea generation through manufacturing. Implemented primary firmware for two mixed-signal, real-time products. The architect of a highly flexible manufacturing test platform in C# to provide faster time-to-market product development.

I worked for the Director of University Events, assisting in facilitating events on and off campus. My primary job responsibility was to setup, managing, and clean up of audio/visual equipment at events but also served as guests management, facility setup, and other tasks to improve the image of the University to guests. Oversaw and trained junior event staff including preparing my successor upon graduation.

My primary task was to continue development on a software program written in C#.NET used by auditory researchers to create customized tests for their studies which were to be performed on patients. I worked with researchers to refine the specifications and user friendliness. My secondary task was to set up test equipment in an auditory anechoic chamber. This included installing 24 independent speakers connected through amplifiers to four sound cards. This setup was designed to use the… Show more My primary task was to continue development on a software program written in C#.NET used by auditory researchers to create customized tests for their studies which were to be performed on patients. I worked with researchers to refine the specifications and user friendliness. My secondary task was to set up test equipment in an auditory anechoic chamber. This included installing 24 independent speakers connected through amplifiers to four sound cards. This setup was designed to use the same program that I was developing. Show less

I worked with the AMR Product Marketing team to build a Microsoft Access and SQL Server application that would be used as a prototype application for catching and storing illegal tampering of electric, gas and water meters. I also built a cost analysis tool in Excel for a potential customer's use to see if Itron's products were a right fit.