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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mankato, Minnesota

• Testing features and functionality.• Work with development team to ensure that defects are identified and addressed.• Identify test scenarios and perform testing activities.• Quantify the accuracy and validity of our products.• Develop and maintain training materials.• Curating customer input to drive product enhancements.• I also get outside to test new drone and sensor configurations when the weather is nice!

Mankato, Minnesota

• Helped train 100+ agricultural customers to operate the ForthWing Vireo & Lockheed Martin Indago. The training program was comprehensive. It included mission planning, aircraft set-up, in-flight procedures, and post-flight processing.• We supported a customer base of farmers, crop consultants, and agronomists throughout the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons. On any given day our support team could expect to face questions regarding basic flight procedures, post-flight processing, or how to interpret data collected from drones and other sources.• Maintained our fleet of drones and co-managed a support flight team consisting of pilots operating throughout the Upper Midwest.• Collected data for our R&D team using a number of different drone and sensor configurations.

Mankato, Minnesota

• Obtained quality imagery for farmers and our R&D team on a number of UAV platforms.• Trained on the Falcon UAV, senseFly eBee, and Lockheed-Martin Indago.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea

• Taught reading, writing, phonics, grammar, and math to a group of 14 highly gifted and talented kindergarten students.• Participated in and coordinated a number of extracurricular activities at the school. Extracurricular activities included field trips, the creation of a school yearbook, and a Christmas concert.

Seoul, South Korea

I taught ESL to approximately 300 1-3 grade students with varied language abilities at a private elementary school in Seoul, South Korea. I instructed the students in comprehensive reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. In addition, I helped coordinate camps, festivals and other creative learning opportunities.