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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Hardware design engineer for both one-off R&D designs and scalable mass production products. Project experience ranges from product-line 3D camera design to fully autonomous robotic systems. Highlights of experience are outlined below.- Extensive experience with flexible circuits, controlled impedance over flex, and rigid-flex PCB design.- Aluminum substrate PCB stackups for high-power components in small form factor designs.- High-speed PCB design, specifically working with various interfaces like MIPI, HDMI, USB2/3.0, DDR4, PCIe, and Gigabit Ethernet (RGMII / MDI) where single ended / differential controlled impedance and crosstalk minimization are imperative.- Designs using various low-speed interfaces including I2C, SPI, UART, RS-232, RS-422.- High layer count PCB design (up to 14 layers) including both analog and digital layout.- High density PCB routing, including 784 pad BGAs requiring dog bone or via-in-pad.- High current Point-of-Load converter design optimization for minimum PCB footprint.- Circuit design and command line interfacing with various embedded products including STM32 (multiple product lines), Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Qualcomm RB5- Analog circuit designs vary from active over-voltage protection circuits to input conditioning for different types of analog signals.- Safety circuit design for E-Stop circuits and redundant interrupts for brushless DC / traction control motors. - LiFePO4 battery systems and charger integration in autonomous robotic systems- CAN bus design and debug, both using various COTS adapters (Kvaser / PCAN) or fully from scratch PCB designs using external or integrated (MCU / FPGA) CAN controllers.- Grounds-up harness design and connector selection for robotic systems.- Circuit grounding techniques for ESD and EMI/EMC compliance- Bench-level EMI debug using spectrum analyzer / nearfield probe- Lab bench automation using Python (PySerial / PyVISA)

Longmont, Co, Us

Lead design / manufacturing programs across various flight missions at Honeybee Robotics. Notable systems I've worked on are:- NASA VIPER Drilling Platform Avionics Design * Flight Computer and Thermal Controller schematic / PCB Design, bench testing, and analysis * Resolver-to-Digital converter schematic design, bench testing, and analysis * Multi-drop RS-422 system architecture and packet structure * FPGA based brushless DC motor controller * Custom backplane design and analysis- DARPA RSGS Arm Electrical Manufacturing * Lead electrical assembly for two flight arm assemblies * Inspected solder and harness workmanship * Generated assembly documentation and worked with technician teams- Sentinel-6 Supplementary Calibration System (SCS) design / manufacturing (IEEE article linked below) * Designed flight harnessing and various EGSE required for SCS * Assisted test team during flight assembly * Inspected solder and harness workmanship * Generated assembly documentation and worked with technician teams

Longmont, Co, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Supporting Analog Motor Drivers (AMD) for Brushed, Brushless, and Stepper motors. Some of my roles include working on TI reference designs, specifically following the design from product definition, to PCB / schematic layout, lab testing and data collection, and ending with technical writing. I also work with designing and defining TI's Evaluation Modules (EVM's) used to give customers working platforms from which they can bench mark our products in their own designs.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Taught two sections of the Application of Analog Circuits lab offered to senior level Electrical Engineering students. Topics covered were cross fader, mic preamp, and power amp design; an RIAA Playback Equalizer design; Bass and Treble tone controls; filters for a color organ; designing a stabilizer for a differentiator circuit; PSpice Macromodeling an Op Amp; Crossing Detectors; Color Organ; Photo-Tachometer; 40-Watt Amplifier design.

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Taught two sections of the Radio Frequency Electronics lab offered to senior level Electrical Engineering students. Subjects included AM / FM modulation and demodulation, RF Test Equipment, Ansoft Designer, Passive element measurement using a network analyzer, FIlters and Impedance Matching, and AM Transmission.

East Lansing, Michigan, Us

- Piloted installation and configuration of a fully functional Axia digital board network. - Various IT jobs such as network switch installation and FTP server setup via. a Tascam HDR1. - Developed various automation techniques using GPIO and peripheral recording / notification devices. - Installed and configured Rivendell Automation software on computers running Ubuntu 14.04- Wrote various python programs to automate / simplify daily station use of Linux machines. - Recorded station-wide wiring diagrams and general use documents for technical troubleshooting

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Working one on one with students in an introduction to AC circuits laboratory credit. Responsibilities include grading papers, administering student grades, and developing students trouble shooting techniques.

Worked as a part time bike mechanic for Michigan States bicycle shop. My responsibilities included repairing customer bikes and diagnosing customer problems in the front room.

Greer, South Carolina, Us

Developed department tool using embedded VBA macros in Microsoft Excel. Aided department in line trials and shadowed managers at daily department wide meetings.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Audio Production