Led team to deliver all critical product capabilities on schedule for internal milestones and customer demos over the course of two years, for a specialized drone with a multi-axis stabilized gimbal, dual EO/IR cameras, and additional payload capabilitiesPrimary architect of a flexible, cross-platform, drone HW and SW architecture and development environment that is being used on multiple FLIR developed drones that was designed through collaboration with product stakeholders and cross-discipline engineersLed the SW and HW development of a cross-platform, multi-stream video pipeline with stabilization, optic flow, object tracking, and video recording and streamingImplemented features at various levels of the system such as low-level MCU drivers, OTA firmware updates, Yocto custom Linux distro, camera integration, automation utilities, simulation, etc.

Developed firmware for a 3-axis mechanically stabilized gimbal with dual cameras (EO/IR), onboard video stabilization, object tracking, and video streaming.Improved reliability and extended capabilities such as adding power saving state, reducing sensor error, making external peripheral interfaces more robust, and improving fault handling.Optimized video pipeline to increase concurrent video and still image throughput by 200%

Implemented algorithms on an operational, real-time satellite ground station including an algorithm for fusing multiple 2D Kalman filter solutions into a single 3D Kalman filter solutionComputer vision algorithm research and implementation including an algorithm that leveraged problem specific constraints to track moving targets across video frames with SNR below 0dB

Prototyped with Matlab/Simulink, implemented with C++, and field tested an original guidance and control algorithm for performing a cooperative rendezvous of multiple dronesProduced a method for navigating UAVs along time-optimal curves for intercepting other air vehiclesDeveloped original non-linear Lyapunov control laws for UAV path following

Taught and reinforced principles and implementation of numerical methods in C++, Matlab and Excel

• Assisted in the development and design of a next generation Oil and Gas Steerable Drilling System• Designed, modeled, and made engineering drawings for prototype and test parts