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Sunnyvale, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked as electrical design engineer on project Tidal to improve, manufacture, and deploy an ML stereo-camera system for monitoring off-shore fish farms. Revised electronics hardware designs (schematics and layouts) to resolve reliability issues and feature requests. Designed and built hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test racks for Tidal camera system and supporting products. Wrote HIL tests (Python), stood up nightly and presubmit automation, and connected these with internal Google tools. Modified embedded software (C++ on Linux) to add more telemetry for remote monitoring and debugging. Modified microcontroller firmware (C++ on ChibiOS RTOS) to support new ICs and features.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked as an Avionics hardware design engineer on Project Loon to build safe and reliable flight-vehicle electronics. Designed, built, tested, and owned rollout of many PCBAs and subassemblies for actuation and monitoring. Became manager of 3 Avionics hardware engineers; coordinated all avionics hardware development. Led cross-functional program to diagnose and resolve in-flight failures due to storms and nearby lightning strikes.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as a hardware design engineer to develop cellular and LoRa communications modules and end devices. Met with vendors to select and qualify new parts. Tuned and verified RF front-end interfaces. Performed EMC and regulatory testing. Supported the software development and product test teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. Coordinated with the on-site PCB assembly and production teams to ensure highly-manufacturable designs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as a hardware design engineer with team members to develop communications products. Involved with all aspects of the product life cycle, from brainstorming to end-of-life. Designed and maintained circuits, schematics, layouts, and BOMs for several products. Drafted mechanical designs and worked with contract engineer to create product enclosures. Programmed embedded firmware to assist embedded software group. Performed EMC (emissions and immunity, including FCC) testing. Collaborated with many groups, including purchasing, marketing, sales, support, and legal. Managed several projects; responsible for budgets, schedules, reporting, and effort allocation. Managed a variety of vendors during product design, manufacturing, and testing. Currently researching new business opportunities and interviewing potential customers

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed kicksize.com website and Magento E-Commerce plugin to recommend shoe sizes for online shoe buyers. Worked as one of three co-founders to identify need, build strategy, and implement solution. Coordinated e orts and made sure that the team stayed informed. Designed user interface and graphics. Programmed in PHP, Javascript, HTML, and CSS; implemented MySQL database.

La Crosse, Wisconsin Area

Debugged and adapted testing hardware to meet test requirements. Wrote test scripts based on software and hardware design requirements. Quickly learned Visual Basic and Python; made modi cations to PC testing software. Continued to work e ciently when physically separated from the team.