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● Designed multi-viewer display panels with Parallel Reality technology.● Optimized complex CAD assemblies to perform better on older PCs.● Implementing new designs and processes to aid display assembly and installation.

● Reworked existing CAD models and organization to meet current company standards.● Designed new parts to fit into existing CAD with minimal changes.● Compiled technician and customer requests into potential design changes.● Analyzed problems and created short- and long-term solutions through design and assembly changes.

Pasadena, California, United States

● Designed and assembled prototypes for a novel RT-qPCR test system.● Designed injection-molded cartridges with overmolded metal and ultrasonic welding for a $10 cost target.● Designed the optical pathway for fluorescent biochemical measurement.● Set up and managed Upchain PLM for Solidworks design files.● Developed motion parameters and sequences for Robotis Dynamixel servos.● Created a Python GUI to operate the machines in a laboratory environment.

• Design, analyze, assemble and test actively stabilized gimbals.• Systems and mechanical engineer for large quantity infrared two-axis gimbal system.• Mechanical engineer for two different four-axis gimbal systems: one infrared & visible range optical system for law airborne law enforcement with five active units undergoing field testing with customer, one satellite communication system currently in development.• Software engineer occasionally for C-based TI DSP module development and Python-based GUIs.• Troubleshoot problems with both our systems and customer provided payloads.• Responsible for communicating with customers, presenting designs, ensuring projects adhere to customer requirements and global standards.• Ensure all mechanical, electrical, and software interfaces are compatible.• Create machining drawings with correct tolerances for assembly, then source quotes and order components.• Source additional custom and off-the-shelf components to complete gimbal manufacture.• Work with a multidisciplinary team from different backgrounds with very different personalities.

Pasadena, Ca

• Planned competition for students to showcase abilities.• Taught dynamic and structural modeling.• Gave manufacturing advice through design approaches and machine use.• Repaired machines.• Worked with a team of four students and an instructor to best enable the students through the competition.

• Worked with the Caltech Robotics Lab.• Modified a FANUC-controlled CNC slotting machine to support an additional motorized axis for rapid gear prototyping and production.• Modification involved installing a servo and servo controller, terminating the servo's flying leads into the correct connector for its controller, wiring the servo controller into the FANUC controller, modifying parameters in the FANUC controller based on sources from the user and maintenance manuals, and creating a serial communication cable for computer communication.• Assisted with planetary gearbox design, manufacturing, testing, and construction.

Pasadena, Ca

• Machined components for a custom-built electric car.• Created quick fixes to bypass previous errors and oversights as competition approached.• Operated in a large team of more than 50 students.• Drove to Lincoln, Nebraska to showcase the vehicle.

Pasadena, Ca

• Locally known as ME72 Competition.• Designed and machined three robots to play a modified game of soccer.• Worked on a team with four other students.• Applied knowledge of Physics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials to outperform the competition.• Built the fastest drivetrains, most robust frames, and won the competition

Pasadena, Ca

• Worked with the Caltech Robotics Lab.• Designed, machined, and assembled the first and second prototypes of a wind-powered mobile sensor array for polar deployment.• System uses tubes along the principle axes of a reinforced fabric ball to guide magnets traveling through solenoids to generate power as the ball rolls.• Learned CNC machining to quickly iterate designs and prove idea plausibility.• Second development run involved small team management of a group of summer interns.

San Jose, Ca

• Developed an adjustable x-ray obfuscation system for flare reduction within an integrated-circuit inspection machine.• Designed mounting fixture for system around measurement optics.• System used an Arduino Uno with motor controllers to actuate 4 stepper motors soldered to lead discs.• Serial communication commands were translated to motor motion for adjustability.

Pasadena, Ca

• Worked with Caltech Nanofabrication Group• Prototyped a hand-held, automated testing device to diagnose diseases in thedeveloping world• Involved rapid-prototyping techniques (CNC machining, 3D printing, mold-making/casting) for a wide variety of materials• Assisted in design and production of the final product.

Pasadena, Ca

• Worked with the Caltech Geomorphology Group• Compiled information on incised meandering rivers across the globe to decide if further research is worth investing• Processed data with Python tools I created, including a noise reduction/Fouriertransform script to acquire the characteristic wavelengths of the river• The final decision was that the currently accepted theory for incised river formation does not coincide with observed trends