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Fort Collins, Co, Us

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, and RF power detection• 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.