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Boulder, CO, US

Full-time electrical engineering consultant with clients in the solar energy, carbon capture, building electrification, and autonomous vehicle industries.

San Francisco, California, US

Designed camera data aggregation and processing hardware for the Cruise AV. Implemented 18-layer PCBA using a Xilinx MPSoC with 10GBASE-TX, 1000BASE-T1, TI FPD-Link III, and DDR4 SDRAM. Designed a prototype indirect Time-of-flight (ToF) Lidar sensor with QVGA resolution and 16-watt VCSEL laser illumination.

Mountain View, California, US

Responsible for requirements management and verification / validation (V&V) testing for electrical power systems, harnessing, GNSS, and telematics systems. Provided traceable requirements and test results to support safety sign-off for driverless operation.Implemented standards for vehicle EMC testing per Fiat Chrysler (FCA) and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

San Francisco, California, US

Led development of Airware electrical hardware, including flight controllers, GNSS, IMU, radio telemetry, and onboard compute. Transitioned modules through DV to production, including development of ATE hardware and software.

Worked with Chip Yates on the powertrain architecture and construction of his record-setting Long-ESA electric airplane. Assisted in development of electric powertrain and battery management system, and developed patented in-air-recharging concept.

Electrical Engineering lead, responsible for design and implementation of primary drive and accessory electronics for a Guinness World-Record breaking electric motorcycle. Worked as part of a three-person team to design, build, and campaign the motorcycle in a variety of race events, culminating in a 202mph world-record-setting run at the Bonneville Salt.

Arlington, VA, US

Electrical Engineer with Boeing Phantom Works, designing avionics for the A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter. Designed avionics hardware and developed embedded firmware for distributed sensor system and mil-spec power conversion and distribution system. Assisted in transition to production from prototype manufacturing methods, and provided extensive.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Undergraduate researcher in the Center for Biologically Inspired Design implementing a hardware simulation of blue crab chemical plume tracking methods. Duties included installing and troubleshooting a two-axis linear rail robot to move a sensor array through a saltwater flume to track chemical plumes. Also responsible for implementing a National.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Teaching Assistant for two sections of ME3720 "Thermal Systems Engineering" with a total of 92 students. Duties include weekly office hours to tutor students, weekly homework grading, and pre-test review sessions three times a semester.

Arlington, VA, US

Worked as a summer intern with Boeing Advanced Unmanned Systems, Concept Exploration on the A160T Hummingbird UAV. Responsible for various software and hardware updates to the power system, as well as testing of newly redesigned components prior to their being used on the aircraft.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Undergraduate Co-op student in the Electrical Systems Laboratory (ELSYS). Primary responsibility was development of operational flight software for the ALR-69 Radar Warning Receiver. Also responsible for developing a hardware-in-the-loop test console to verify the operation and performance of ALR-69 firmware updates.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Worked as an undergraduate in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory alongside a team of two graduate students to design, develop, and test the first university-built fuel-cell aircraft in the United States. Designed and constructed the fuel cell balance of plant control system, power conversion system, data acquisition system, and data telemetry system.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Intern responsible for software test, technical documentation, and pipeline AM/FM/GIS alignment sheet generation. Experienced with AutoCAD, ARC/GIS, and software test methodology.