Philip Wolfe Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Designing & Implementing many things including but not limited to PCBs, firmware, motion control, edge computing, network architecture, signal processing, backend + frontend web dev, database design/management/connection to visualization tools, gimbal design, devops, and much more. Balancing scaling up for production & continuing rapid prototyping to test new features

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Day to day involved both working on other employee's projects/leading my own, typically 2-3 customer projects at a time. Skills demonstrated along the way include designing and implementing system architectures, inferring actual business needs from customer and communicating new path along with technical feasibility and realistic timelines, and developing solutions to highly technical problems with tight timeframes utilizing both my practical industry experience and deeper theory academic experience.Examples of systems I've designed, implemented, and delivered to customers include: real time video streaming platforms with ML inference and tracking for both desktop & embedded systems, dynamic FPGA architectures, LIDAR point cloud visualization and data analysis tools, multiple gimbal systems for various needs on static and moving platforms, ML model performance and accuracy analysis, dev-ops systems usable across multiple projects, and much more.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

I co-founded a startup focused on developing educational games for children aged 2-6. Our products were designed to engage young learners and provide parents with actionable analytics to enhance their child’s learning experience through targeted activities. During this venture, I conducted customer discovery, sized our potential market, and helped our team get accepted into Georgia Tech’s Create-X program.As the lead developer, I was responsible for establishing the core game mechanics using the Unity game engine, targeted for Android. My duties included implementing touch interactions, designing menu screens, managing transitions, developing the login system, and integrating additional necessary tools. Although our startup ceased operations, my hands-on experience with these technical and strategic aspects significantly enhanced my skills in game development, user experience design, product development, and market analysis, while deepening my understanding of the educational technology landscape.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

This is our robotics team that competes in the IEEE Southeastern Conference Hardware Competition each year.Here I mentor the team on design choices, system architecture, controls, localization, and many other topics as we encounter new exciting issues depending on the tasks that year. I also teach new members skills to help them grow and inspire them to share my passion for technology and learning how things work.

I taught 2 lab sections for Digital Design Lab (ECE 2031). Here, I inspire students to learn more about digital design and the growing need for FPGAs. In addition, I help them improve their technical writing abilities and emphasize the importance of technical communication in their engineering careers.

• Worked with sustaining engineering team to solve customer problems, automate tasks, maintain existing embedded computer products, and solve problems to help optimize the processes on the manufacturing floor.• Explored root cause of board failures, learned and helped suggest better design techniques for future failure prevention• Requested samples from a potential supplier to prototype a solution to be incorporated in the manufacturing of future products and received the samples for free. Tested product in our design and kept supplier up to date with the status and the testing going on by our international customer that would be using the final solution.

Lead Undergraduate TA for an FPGA digital design lab class. Here I mentored and helped students to learn how to debug issues related to various areas including VHDL, digital logic, state machines, functional & timing testing, and simple computers that they implement on the FPGAs for their labs. I strive to encourage my students to ask questions despite the stressful environment of a lab class. As lead TA, I also mentored incoming TAs to share these same values.

This year's competition I worked on setting up a bus of I2C ToF(time of flight) IR distance sensors and reading multiple QR codes at the same time.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Added Hardware in Loop support on all boards in system, which involved modifying firmware to allow injection of data from a model to be sent through the serial port to be propagated throughout the system instead of authentic sensor data.- Merged functionally duplicate code into a single pressure sensor driver and developed unit and functional tests for pressure sensor driver- Learned test-driven development techniques for embedded software systems- Performed unit testing and functional testing using Cpputest and applied test-driven development techniques to maintain reliable firmware for safety critical applications.- Refactored code interfacing with pressure sensor into a common driver which was then implemented on multiple boards.- Created Python script for real-time visualization of incoming serial port data.

Worked in Dr. Durgin's lab under my PhD mentor Francesco Amato in the RF Propagation Lab.Project: 5.8 GHz Energy Harvesting of Space Based Solar Power using Inkjet Printed Circuits on a Transparent SubstratePersonal contributions: successfully designed, simulated, and tested the integration of interdigitated, printable capacitors into rectenna designs on a transparent, flexible substrate using silver nanoparticle ink in a desktop inkjet printer to further commercialization of space based solar power.

• Disaggregated aggregate house power signals into individual device power consumption using image processing algorithms for the purpose of offering consumers more knowledge via non-intrusive load monitoring• Developed MATLAB GUIs for large-scale data management including visualization and extraction features on two years of data sampled once every 3 seconds

Worked in Professor Yoder's Computational Electronics and Photonics lab under PhD student Timothy Philip• Added 3D-slice viewing window functionality to Wigner function post-lab analysis GUI with MATLAB• Applied computational techniques to model semiconductor device physics of Avalanche Photodiodes in order to compare to analytical solutions for validation.

Irving, Tx, Us

• Led weekly troop meetings for approximately 20 to 30 people from ages 12 to 18• Planned troop activities, outings, logistics, and furthered troop rank advancement helping younger members learn scouting skills and leadership

Master’S Degree, Embedded Systems, Controls, Machine Learning

B.S. Computer Engineering, Electrical And Computer Engineering