Daniel Lerma Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Arlington, VA, US

- Integrated product team lead for the Electro Optical (EO) and High Energy Laser (HEL) groups at RTX. Taking ownership of scheduling, tasking, funding and planning for all activities (software and firmware) from conception (pre-bid) to production.- Managed a team of 8+ engineers on rotation across multiple programs. Working with leadership to ensure needs.

Arlington, VA, US

- Lead Digital Design Engineer for the Raytheon DAS (EODAS) internal research and development (IRAD). Later, continued deliverable efforts as a critical senior engineer member core to the bringup of the project to production.- Prevented a multi-million dollar circuit card assembly (CCA) redesign by re-architecting the firmware memory interface to meet.

Chief AI Platform Architect w/ Motus Labs - Under NDA FPGA Accelerated SW Architect w/ Twitter - Under NDA

El Segundo, California, US

- Designed the second generation 4U-Link processing firmware architecture. Its robustness has allowed next generation endoscopic cameras to have never before seen configurability and mode operations.- Introduced and implemented continuous integration processes in Jenkins that improved reuse efforts by providing confidence in KSI IP testing. Reduced server.

Arlington, VA, US

-Lead Digital Design Engineer for the Emerging Infrared Technologies group. Tasked with the design, implementation and completion of all next generation high density IR camera programs and the Raytheon DAS sensor. - Designed an Agile based DFT architecture that allowed firmware and embedded software tasks to be completed in a fraction of the bidden time.

- Biometric dev w/ Heart ID: Assisted a team of 5 engineers design a sensor capable of detecting users through single source ECG. Led algorithm development and applied machine learning to help improve user detection overtime. The team managed to be one of the 10 of over 100 teams to be selected to be part of Startup Aggieland. Agreements with hospitals in.

College Station, TX, US

• Designed, Simulated and verified the fabrication process of microelectronic devices using the Synopsis Sentaurus TCAD tool.
• Carried out the fabrication of designed devices performing Oxidation, Diffusion, Masking, Ion Implantation, Photolithography, Etching, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Epitaxy, and Metallization at the A&M nanofabrication.
• Characterized each device to confirm they met design parameters at probe stations.

College Station, TX, US

• Working under supervision of Dr. Sam Villareal in collaboration with Yajie Zeng and Alyse Judilla
• Led a team of 3 engineers through the research, design, and development of a portable IR enhanced facial recognition system.
• Predicted improvements on current PCA based facial recognition algorithms using IR imaging through Matlab.
• Obtained unlimited funding, up from $500 limited funds, and a $3,599 DRS Infrared (IR) camera through meetings and project presentations with Capstone Coordinators. As predictions, tests, and prototypes showed.
• Programmed the developed IR facial recognition algorithm using C++, OpenCV, and Python in Linux.
• Coded and compiled a Linux kernel module (Driver) for the Tamarisk 320 DRS Infrared Camera.

College Station, TX, US

• Designed and built a MIPS pipelined processor using Verilog to demonstrate prowess in computer architecture.
• Compiled, simulated, and debugged using the Synopsys VCS DVE and utilized waveform data to improve design.
• Coded and ran Verilog test benches to verify design parameters, signals, and improve the hazard detection unit.

College Station, TX, US

• Working under guidance of Dr. Peng Yu in collaboration with Chenxi Qiu and Ashley Murray
• Managed a team of 3 engineers through the research and development of a script automated analysis pipeline using existing NET-seq data that would facilitate the quantification of DNA transcription errors in vivo.
• Programmed the script using Samtools, Awk, SED, Ggplot, and R in a Linux environment.
• Saved days of experiment-time as the script allowed the analysis of data in roughly 2 hrs instead of the 3+ days of legacy methods.

Huntsville, TX, US

• Working under the guidance of Dr. Hui Fang.
• Synthesized a new cathode material (Li(1-4y)Ti(y)FePO4) for lithium-ion batteries
• Characterized the material through X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, & electrochemical impendence spectroscopy
• Analyzed data using MAUD software in order to accurately find the optimized Ti doping performance eliminating impurity variable.
• It was found that doping of Ti causes a decrease in charge and discharge capacities. However at higher C rate, the charge discharge capacities are improved. We found that Li(0.96)Ti(0.01)FePO4 exhibits the optimized.

Huntsville, TX, US

• Planned, Organized and set up labs of up to 40 students so they could study and observe different Physics phenomena under my tutorage. These ranged from Intro to Astronomy, Classical Mechanics, and Modern Physics.
• Carried out astronomy demonstrations to classes of up to 60 students as part of a non-majors astronomy course.
• Graded each individual student performance to assign a grade that reflected the students’ performance within labs.

Huntsville, TX, US

Tutored students in both physics and math from different level courses up to senior level classes.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering