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Seattle, Wa, Us

Reading, Pennsylvania, United States

• Manage a team of 7 directly reporting engineers in Systems, Regulatory, and Test Engineering specialties.• Responsible for the support of NPI development by providing requirements, test plans, and test result feedback to the design engineers.• Responsible for all aspects of NPI testing including lab resource allocations, equipment availability and allocation, test plan development and approval, prototype requirements and procurement, and regulatory body involvement.• Work directly with senior engineering staff to architect new products.• Collaborate internationally with other engineering teams to efficiently drive the development of system blocks with cross-functional applications.

Bellingham, Washington, United States

• Manage a team of 7 directly reporting engineers in Systems, Regulatory, and Test Engineering specialties.• Responsible for the support of NPI development by providing requirements, test plans, and test result feedback to the design engineers.• Responsible for all aspects of NPI testing including lab resource allocations, equipment availability and allocation, test plan development and approval, prototype requirements and procurement, and regulatory body involvement.• Work directly with senior engineering staff to architect new products.• Collaborate internationally with other engineering teams to efficiently drive the development of system blocks with cross-functional applications.

Arlington, Washington

• Contributed to new product development by translating broad product goals into specific technical requirements for systems and sub-systems.• Lead and worked with electrical, software, mechanical, regulatory, and production engineering teams to frame problems and develop solutions.• Technical leader on multiple projects including firmware updates for existing products to implement new features and full NPI development cycle for new products.• Lead a Systems and Test Engineering team of 6 engineers working across multiple projects.• Reported engineering team progress and roadblocks to leadership for designated projects.• Anticipated requirements for interoperability of current and future designs.• Specified and lead testing of new projects to validate design requirements.

Arlington, Wa

• Performed and supported regulatory testing to national and international standards.• Anticipated equipment and personnel requirements for multiple projects and resolved resource conflicts to support organizational priorities and commitments.• Developed, implemented, and revised testing procedures for new and existing products.• Characterized the performance of prototypes including initial characterizations, ultimate performance testing, root cause analysis of unit failures, and recommendations of corrective actions.• Performed functional troubleshooting and defect detection of PCBA boards and integrated circuits based on design schematics.

Developed evaluation techniques for competing hardware specifications for improvements to the ATLAS data acquisition system and performed computer simulations of the system response, including error rates, under a variety of expected operating conditions.Developed code to interface a new computer simulation program (POWHEG) with the existing simulation and analysis codebase.Wrote and maintained computer code to perform machine learning analyses and advanced statistical analyses of large (~10TB) datasets using distributed computing techniques for my thesis.Researched improvements to existing machine learning algorithm techniques given systematic uncertainties in the data for my thesis.Performed research independantly and as a member of larger groups.Collaborated internationally with other physics researchers and engineers.Presented research at national and international conferences.Mentored less experienced research assistants.

PHY 251 & 252 - Introductory Physics LaboratoryTaught introductory undergraduate physics labs in mechanics, electronics, and optics.Assisted students with experiments and troubleshot equipment malfunctions.Assessed student work.

PHYS 434 - Application of Computers to Physical MeasurementAssisted students with the development and design of experiments featuring automated computer control and data collection using LabView.Assessed student work.PHYS 121 & 123 - Mechanics & WavesLead undergraduate physics tutorials in mechanics, waves and optics.Assessed student work.

Edmonds, Wa

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics

Activities and Societies: Council of Graduate Students, Adopt-a-Physicist

Master Of Science (Ms), Physics

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics, Mathematics

Associate’S Degree, Science