Tactical Solutions—Intelligence and Surveillance• Software Project EngineerInterfaced with Program management, removed roadblocks to development team, ran sprint reviews, retrospectives, interfaced with team during difficult funding issues.• Lead Development of Deployed Ground SystemResolved customer reported bugs and feature requests by developing and testing across ten thousand lines of Ruby, C++ and Java. Supported an operational airborne sensor system and its distributed ground data ingest and transmission system. Documented system with a 24 slide overview for future use in on-boarding. • Supported Hardware TestingCollaborated with a team of engineers across disciplines and seniority levels, including delegating to junior engineers as well as improving hardware test scripts. Created a suite of MATLAB scripts to ingest, interpolate and overlay test data in order to visualize differences in optical measurement runs.

Missiles and Fire Control—Autonomous SystemsSoftware Development as part of the Collaborative Autonomy team. • Upgraded Collaborative Autonomy SimulatorDeveloped dozens of improvements to a simulation of collaborative autonomy between UAV swarms. Wrote Python scripts and GUIs, Created new C++ classes and modified existing code, making daily commits to an active Git repository. Expanded simulation from under 10 UAVs to over 80 and created a number of C++ GUIs using Qt. • Developed Multi-Domain Asset Scheduler Developed a scheduling system to support tactical planning for multi-domain operations. Collaborated with developers of a genetic algorithm planner and met tight efficiency and optimization requirements.

Homeland Protection Systems GroupEngineer on a multi-disciplinary team performing rapid prototyping and field evaluation of autonomous technology. Tested Prototype Counter-UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) SystemResearched and tested the capabilities of various UAVs/drones, becoming a resource throughout Lincoln Laboratory. Acquired, managed, and piloted a fleet of consumer UAVs for demonstrations, testing, and evaluation. UAV flight testbed allowed for development of a UAV-detection system that Homeland Security deployed for critical infrastructure protection. Designed and conducted flight tests to comply with FAA regulations, air traffic control requests, and security and safety requirements. Measured Detectability of Small Commercial UAVsSelected, acquired, and operated a dozen small commercial UAVs. Developed test plan and conducted field tests to analyze UAV detectability in multiple sensor modalities for the development of a counter-UAV system. Prototyped a Wi-Fi based, low-cost, handheld detection system for UAV identification from off-the-shelf parts. Compiled a database of UAV signatures that was distributed to over thirty government research organizations. I was selected to present these findings to the staff of my entire Lincoln Laboratory division. Technology Office ChallengesManaged a robotics team of six scientists and engineers designing an autonomous racing drone to fly through an obstacle course within a large motion capture system. Developed software architecture enabling an air and ground robot team to autonomously solve a maze. Tested and selected Robot Operating System (ROS) packages, including sensor fusion, SLAM, and navigation software.Other projects: Created multiple demos for key sponsors and stakeholders, developed a low-power wireless health-monitoring system, implemented CUDA GPU image processing, supervised team safety for Confined Space work.

Thesis: Autonomous Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Culvert InspectionIn collaboration with the Advanced Capabilities and Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Designed and integrated an end-to-end autonomous robotic culvert inspection system using a quadrotor UAV. Interfaced with academic researchers, added outdoor navigation capability to an established codebase, and implemented sensor-fusion and state-estimation using the Extended Kalman filter.

Built and tested an optical payload for the RQ-11 Raven micro UAV. Programmed an embedded computer, calibrated and characterized cameras, and developed camera control and image processing software.

Smoke tested new builds of in-development software before deployment.