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Fairport, NY, US

Melbourne, Florida, US

Melbourne, Florida, US

Melbourne, Florida, US

• Lead and participated in multidisciplinary groups to deliver custom RF and networking solutions for a variety of rugged military platforms including, shelter, vehicular, airborne and fixed sites for both international.
• In the systems execution group, worked directly with sales and program managers as a Project Engineer to manage cost, schedule, scope and risk for programs to deliver robust RF and network solutions that meet or exceed.
• Lead and participated in proposal teams, delivering responses for US Government and International RFPs. As a proposal manager, was responsible for the cost and schedule of the proposal effort, and the resultant final.

Burlingame, CA, US

• Developed and maintained control system software for transit vehicle charging systems, and advanced vehicle docking systems.
• Created solutions for field issue reports via creative application of technologies.
• Designed software tools to support data visualization and improve field issue diagnostic capabilities to drive system robustness
• Managed the specification, embedded software design, and final system integration for multiple subsystems in electric vehicle chargers.
• Implemented a printed circuit board design from prototype to release in less than 6 months to facilitate a footprint reduction of electric vehicle charging equipment.
• Supported customer installations in the field.

• Team member of inter- company Trison / GM design team working to optimize fuel cell vehicle software reliability.
• Performed software testing using black box and white box techniques to verify and validate vehicle software releases.
• Analyze and debug complex real time controls for electro-mechanical systems.
• Simulate control algorithms on a virtual testing platform (Hardware in Loop) and validate algorithms with respect to their requirements.
• Interface with a multi-disciplinary team to create requirements documentation of vehicle control systems.
• Create library tools within MATLAB to improve and streamline systems testing protocols.

• Designed sensor networks using the CAN protocol (Controller Area Network) to interface multiple microprocessors and more than 50 thermal flow and pressure sensing devices.
• Responsible for debugging and resolution of hardware and software issues in advanced fuel cell power module systems resulting in increased up time and the creation of an extensive knowledge base of day to day issues.
• Implemented significant process improvements in long term durability statistics and data collection.
• Developed a thermal model for sensorless temperature control of a fuel cell power module. Resulted in published intellectual property.
• Created data visualization tools to handle extremely large data sets, bring meaningful information to the attention of the end user and improve data management.
• Extended the capabilities of the user interface to enable on call and paging capabilities, to facilitate a 24-7 durability environment.

• Design and implement real time control systems for hydrogen fuel cell test stands
• Created an expandable durability test scripting system utilizing vehicle telemetry data.
• Developed methods of high voltage power management taking advantage of multiple load bank systems.
• Derived and verified thermal models for use in subzero temperature testing of fuel cell systems
• Developed test bench controls for electromagnetic interference testing of fuel cells.

Rochester, New York, US

• Mechanical Engineering Co-op through RIT over the course of 2 Summer and Fall blocks.
• Thermal modeling of dryer units and cost estimates to predict how downtime affects efficiency
• Designed a sensor array and PLC control scheme to improve film box defect detection and improve roll to roll continuous manufacturing.
• Participated in multiple lean kaizen activities with the goal of completely revamping the chemical staging area of a curtain coating process.
• Designed a loss in weight chemical distribution control system for liquid chemicals in the range of 10g to 60kg.

Plainview, NY, US

• Responsible for engineering change requests in mechanical and electrical systems drawings.
• Designed components for complex prototype high vacuum physical vapor deposition technologies, including cooling systems and a silicon wafer transfer mechanism in a 10 process machine.
• Ensured components for large assemblies were produced on time and within spec.
• Developed product layouts for specific customer spaces.

Mechanical Engineering, Engineering

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