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Fort Collins, CO, US

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Manage engineering teams with 1-10 members on projects with multiyear timelines and multi million-dollar budgets on a variety of Electronic Warfare (EW) and radar projects
• Conduct systems-level design of EW and radar systems following a Modular Open Systems Approach
• Provide project management by interfacing directly with sponsors and stakeholders, leading team meetings, defining project requirements and technical needs, scheduling, budgeting, etc.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Technical contractor (through Apex Systems) at the Open Systems Development Branch in the Electronic Systems Laboratory at GTRI
• Developed high throughput DSP algorithms for electronic warfare applications with C/OpenCL on heterogeneous systems (CPUs + GPUs)
• Design software to process RF data according to open standards like VITA 49.2 and MORA
• Conducted systems-level design of electronic warfare prototype, including evaluation of requirements, constraints, and commercially available hardware

Evergreen, CO

• Used KiCad to design expansion circuit boards for GreatFET One, a USB peripheral multi-tool, that provide a variety of hardware specific features such as infrared communication, Bluetooth communication, level shifting.
• Used GNU Radio to test transmit/receive applications for software defined radio and software defined infrared circuit boards
• Analyzed and debugged board performance using electronics test equipment

Ann Arbor, MI

• Taught four sections of Physics 241 - Elementary Lab II, an introductory lab in electricity and magnetism for scientists and engineers.

Evergreen, CO

• Created circuit schematics and PCB layouts using KiCad.
• Developed SMT hand soldering and rework skills.

Boulder, CO

• Assisted with the Thompson group's strontium superradient laser experiment, the goal of which is to produce a mHz linewidth laser using an optical clock transition as its gain medium.
• Assembled a variety of optical and electronics systems for laser cooling and trapping of atoms,frequency stabilizing lasers, etc.
• Performed data analysis using Python.
• Designed and built electronics such as loop lters, laser current and temperature controllers,power supplies, etc.
• Designed and machined mechanical parts such as MOT coil mounts, breadboard for optics,electronics housing, etc.

Boulder, CO

• Facilitated in-lecture student discussions and hosted office hours for PHYS1230 - Light and Color for Nonscientists.
• Assisted with student projects exploring basic optics and photography phenomena.

Superior, CO

• Designed and taught three math, science, and engineering lessons to a class of fourth graders at a local elementary school as part of the CU Teach program.

Paris, France

• Fellow of the University of Florida Gravitational Physics International REU.
• Worked on an experiment designed to demonstrate frequency-dependent squeezed light in anoptomechanical system with the goal of lowering the quantum noise floor of gravitational wavedetectors.
• Implemented and improved automatic laser-cavity locking systems controlled by a FPGA.
• Worked with nonlinear optics systems, including SHGs and OPOs.

Pasadena, CA

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF).
• Measured mechanical loss properties of crystalline silicon with applicationstowards lowering the mechanical noise floor of future gravitational wave detectors.
• Worked with optical, mechanical, vacuum, and cryogenic systems.
• Processed and analyzed experimental data with a variety of digital signal processing techniques.

Master Of Science - Ms, Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering Physics, 3.94

Activities and Societies: Sigma Pi SigmaSumma cum laude. Minor in Applied Mathematics.