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Owings Mills, Maryland

Sendai, Japan

• Designed passively rotating cage for quadcopter with 3 degrees of freedom to protect against collisions during bridge inspection while converting force to cage rotation.
• Attained 96% accuracy with computer vision code developed in C++ used to approximate orientation of cage relative to quadcopter using OpenCV library.
• Refined code by adding filters to the detection algorithms based on known shape, size, and color restrictions, removing 80% of false positives.

Lanham, MD

• Xronz is a small startup company that builds pocket-sized quadcopters that are designed to take hi-def video and stills that are sent directly to your phone, which doubles as a controller for the quadcopter.
• Improved thrust from propulsion system from 10 to 50 grams with a 2 week deadline by testing and redesigning motor-propeller and speed controller designs.
• Achieved a 75% decrease in system virbrations for Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) test stands designed with mentor recommendations.
• Tuned Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controls for a 3-axis gimbal camera mount for MAV to stabilize inertial moments.
• Drafted, with SolidWorks, prototypes of MAV with detailed bill of materials, exploded and detailed views, and dimensioned g-code for manufacturing.

Trained in MATLAB and LabVIEW softwareTested and operated autonomous aeronautical vehicles.

Worked with researchers developing atmospherically designed camera.Tested the sensitivity of the camera

Trusted with day-to-day event planning.Organized official documents detailing company records.Generate CAD documents for power generators.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering, 3.34

Bachelors Of Science (Study Abroad), Mechanical Engineering

High School Graduation

Honors Salutatorian