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Charlottesville, VA, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

- Small Cap fund focused on <$10B market cap companies- One of six students selected as Senior Portfolio Manager to lead one of Darden Capital Management's six funds- Lead a team of three Portfolio Managers

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Initiated the implementation modular design principles, allowing for new firmware images to be designed and released in about a month, reducing firmware release lead times by 75%
• Translated stakeholder preferences into customer requirements, and subsequently mapped them to design artifacts to guarantee 100% requirement coverage in the final design
• Constructed test plan to verify firmware designs by creating identical automated outputs from simulation runs and on-target board hardware tests to ensure 100% expected behavior from device
• Championed coaching and guidance for junior engineers, fostering professional growth and empowering them to navigate the FPGA design process adeptly, yielding heightened team efficiency and superior project outcomes

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Developed world-class fiber optic sensing system, resetting optical temperature sensing industry benchmarks in wavelength range and interrogation speeds by over 1000%
• Pioneered development of world's inaugural chamber-less smoke detector, revolutionizing fire safety technology by increasing smoke detection times by 50%
• Orchestrated collaboration between multiple North American sites to realize R&D project synergies, culminating in combined development effort yielding cost savings of over $5M, enabling acquisition of a British firm to.
• Managed international design team spanning three continents, ensuring seamless collaboration across diverse cultures, meeting project milestones, and enhancing team cohesion
• Created and sustained an FPGA/firmware internship program, yielding one full-time hire and evolving into an annual recurring talent development initiative
• Conducted exhaustive trade studies to evaluate component options for electronics design, leading to data-driven decisions on part selection that optimized performance, cost-efficiency, and project success

Vergennes, Vermont

• Spearheaded development of FPGA firmware utilizing model-based design software, resulting in first FAA certification of an FPGA using model-based design methodology at organization o Modeled FPGA subsystems in.
• Initiated an automation effort to program sensors, which led to a 100% reduction in engineering hours and enabled the process to be sent off-site to a contractor in Singapore
• Designed controllers for ADC, FLASH, DDR3 SDRAM, and overall system and deployed code onto target FPGA

Vergennes, Vermont

• Simulated and debugged FPGA modules and Systemverilog test-benches using Mentor Graphics ModelSim
• Designed a proof of concept fiber optic communication system for a future generation Health & Usage Monitoring system
• Created a Window App GUI using Visual Studios that sent commands and received responses over RS485

Faimont, West Virginia

• Created a database that utilized XPATH checkers to analyze user inputted code for various coding standard violations. The database expanded coverage of coding standards from 20% to 68%.
• Converted existed text-based searches in Bash-script into XPATH checkers utilizing a UNIX environment
• Expanded the Orion Coding Standards to cover more unique cases that could jeopardize mission safety and success
• Wrote weekly reports summarizing the progress of my tool and evaluation of current objectives

Fairmont, West Virginia

• Created a project analysis tool that transformed large scale project databases in Microsoft Access into interactive flow-down diagrams in Microsoft Project by using Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel filters
• Worked with IV&V analysts to modify the tool so that it was streamlined for project analysis and tracking
• Organized part by part objectives for myself and a partner in order to accelerate the production of the tool

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: Consulting Club, Technology Club, Darden Capital Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Class Senator, Union Executive Board, Class of 2017 Vice President, Union Annual Report Chairman, Senior Week.