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Cupertino, California, Us

A cellist that's performed in a variety of genres for private and public events. Always open to collaborate.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leading multidisciplinary teams in architecting, planning, and executing across a range of challenges from flexible wearables to creative automation test solutions for flex devices.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Pioneered novel flexible printed circuits with a range of hardware, software and test solutions; targeting medical device and defense related applications.- mixed-signal (digital/analog/RF) analysis and characterization of flexible electronics utilizing high performant nRF52840 (ARM Cortex-M4) microcontrollers.- firmware development for Nordic Semi devices using nRF SDK, utilizing SoftDevices.- BLE 4.2+ implementations with GATT services, utilizing encrypted LESC links.- Architected, designed and implemented automated flex device programming and testing using industrial robots (e.g. Fanuc), custom electronics and custom Linux-based software.- Designed and executed semi-automated test protocol to study effects of bend and elongation on variety of inks, substrates, and geometries - utilizing Yuasa and Keysight DAQ equipment.- Created automated analysis pipeline in Python for customer analysis of collected resistances and stress data.- Various electrical tests on flex devices: digital, analog, VNA S-parameter measurements, antenna matching computations, Spectrum Analysis of emission from printed antennas.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

Focused on tertiary genomic cloud-based analysis for cancer diagnostics. Developed and executed an automated test strategy that integrated Roche’s Quality Management System with Cucumber (BDD).- Succeeded in achieving 70% of formal testing/verification either automated or assisted by automation.- Dramatically reduced labor cost and execution time for formal verification- Scaled automation to stress test cloud-based (AWS) production system to simulate many simultaneous users

Switzerland 🇨🇭 , Ch

Directly impacted successful launching and supporting of an automated tissue staining (Primary) instrument. Provided a wide spectrum of testing solutions (electrical, software, system), from test creation/execution to development of Python driven automated test solutions - Created a SIL framework that provided a method for testers and developers to inject sensor information on a running instrument – leading to more efficient development and accurate testing. - Developed a tool to convert instrument data traffic into useful telemetry information for both real-time and post-run analysis. - Assisted with Tiger Team to tackle customer issues. Developed Python driven pipeline to parse and analyze customer instrument logs from dozens of instruments over months of operation. Using data output to identify solutions and enable action. - Wrote MATLAB/Python scripts to analyze proprietary low-level serial communication protocol to identify and resolve infrequent customer issues. - Developed an automation solution using Python and a custom C++ Python module to reduce labor costs associated with manufacturing burn-in.

Created a custom Mobile Applications Development course (focused on the Android OS). A short list of course topics: - UI implementation- Location-Based Service- Communicating with Web Services (JSON & XML digestion), basic sockets programming, and multithreading.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

UAS experience with Air Force and Army fixed wing systems. Provided on-site software and hardware customer support for secure, high-speed, military data-links. (LOS & SATCOM) - Developed software for system performance analysis using MATLAB and C. - On-site repair of several key LRUs ensured uninterrupted mission performance. - Performed card level diagnostics and re-programming. - Experience troubleshooting numerous LOS & SATCOM RF issues. - Experience troubleshooting various network routing issues with proprietary routers, similar to CISCO. - Experience troubleshooting across multi-company systems for both airborne and ground system issues

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Experience with high altitude manned aircraft systems. Provided various software and hardware solutions for LOS links. Coordinated operations and troubleshooting between various companies and Air Force customer to enable mission success. Performed occasional maintenance on jet powered aircraft.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Developed and optimized Software Defined Radio code base to provide better customer experience with our state-of-the-art communication systems. - Wrote, tested and debugged multi-threaded C++ applications running in VxWorks & MontaVista Linux RTOS environments. - Created in-house testing software for both Unix and Windows platforms. - Created various UML class and sequence diagrams. - Discovered a method to vastly improve software modem transition time allowing team to meet contract deadline. - Experience in code reviews and adhering to requirements for CMMI software development process. - Experience writing basic UART Linux drivers in C - for RS232 and RS422 interfaces.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Developed labs for a course on Embedded Systems, using the Freescale MC9S12C32 microcontroller. A short list of the lab topics: - Frequency measurement - Interrupts - SPI communication - Stepper motor control - Serial network interface - Analog Inputs and Sampling

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Led undergraduate Seniors in company sponsored university project to produce a functioning embedded device that provides USB 2.0 connectivity to legacy 1553 military aircraft bus. - Provided students with structure on timeline to complete key milestones of project. - Arranged and oversaw meetings with company reps to ensure a common vision and approval of project’s progress. - Experience with both PDR and CDR style of presentations. - Experience writing technical report and various documentation so company engineers can continue development. - Experience with embedded software development for Cypress FXLP chip (C coding).

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering