Developed advanced process monitoring and adaptive control algorithms to improve washer and dryer energy efficiency and performance for a major appliance manufacturer.• Primary technical contributor for a series of R&D projects worth over $600,000.• Reverse-engineered clothes dryers, washers, and refrigerators and developed research testbeds for real-time process monitoring and control using LabVIEW and dSPACE.• Planned and conducted over 500 washer and dryer experiments based on AHAM/DoE test procedures to evaluate system performance under various conditions.• Prepared and presented biweekly status updates to senior engineering management.• Produced MATLAB functions and scripts to enable computationally efficient batch processing and analysis of data from hundreds of experiments in under a few minutes.• Prepared project proposals for private companies and government agencies.• Independently managed a rotating team of undergraduate research assistants and delegated tasks necessary to complete project objectives.• Assisted professors with labs, including Circuits and Power Systems, since 2017.• Supervised the day-to-day operation of a 9,000 sq. ft. research center during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research Assistant with WKU Center for Energy Systems (formerly Energy Systems Laboratory) Team Leader of a multi-phase, industrially-funded, and confidential research project· Accumulated over 3000 hours of experience modeling non-linear thermal systems; developing testbeds for data acquisition and control algorithm prototyping; and overseeing other undergraduate researchers· Defined technical direction of an open-ended industrial research project· Developed a LabVIEW-based testing platform for full-controllability and monitoring of a thermal process· Created a mathematical model for a transient, heat & mass transfer process and developed a real-time estimator for a key process metric· Developed an optimization algorithm that improved process energy-efficiency by up to 17%Additional Roles and Responsibilities:· Created and presented over 25 technical status updates for senior engineers and managers· Developed computationally-efficient data analysis scripts using MATLAB· Used LabVIEW and SIMULINK/dSPACE platforms to perform data acquisition and control tasksMore information about the center can be found at: https://www.wku.edu/ces/