• Architect complex embedded systems for testability, maintainability, and reliability with solid code design principles.• Recruit, hire and manage high-performing, cross-functional team members, utilizing project management best practices to meet deliverable timelines while integrating IoT solutions across mobile and cloud applications for a variety of industries. • Leverage expertise with MQTT and embedded hardware, including Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Particle to develop and implement software solutions for clients. • Work with wireless technologies such as WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa, and cellular to build state of the art connected devices. • Communicate with clients to determine their individual needs and advise on best practices for efficient and affordable embedded system development, collaborating with international and interdisciplinary teams to produce results that exceed expectations. • Cultivate and nurture lasting business relationships with clients, contractors, CMs, and vendors.

• Facilitated a variety of IoT embedded software solutions and created firmware code for residential life-safety products that rivaled Google’s Nest Protect in features, functionality, and cost while working with limited resources and a fixed budget. • Provided comprehensive engineering support for all launched products.• Engineered an embedded system for an early emergency response product that was introduced to homes and schools throughout Nairobi, Kenya, partnering with the Red Cross to deliver products to an underserved population.• Supervised a 5 member embedded engineering team, introducing industry best practices and procedures to streamline development workflow while focusing on team collaboration, coding standards, and product testing to ensure the delivery of reliable products within established timelines and budgets, and boost overall efficiency.• Employed a Texas Instrument Chip to implement a multi-microcontroller over-the-air device firmware solution that was able to be upgraded via both Wi-Fi and ZigBee.• Created a patented smoke-sensing algorithm for use with an IoT Smart Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Detector, increasing detection responsiveness by up to two minutes over the previous market leading product and reducing false alarms by.• Built an efficient power management system that enabled Wi-Fi and ZigBee connected products to run on backup battery supply and last 15% longer than the competition.

• Performed in-depth research on methods for increasing the lifetime of self-sustaining wireless networks in remote areas.

• Utilized Robot Operating System (ROS) and OpenCV to create a vision system for a NASA funded telepresence robot. • Demonstrated knowledge of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to implement an algorithm within the autonomous robot.