About

While pursing my Electrical Engineering degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology I founded and led a nationally competitive rocketry program, organized a funding campaign to bring $100,000+ to the univierity’s Innovation Center, architected and built an enterprise server rack for my peers, devoted 1000’s of hours to mentoring FIRST robotics programs, and worked 15 hr/week to support myself through school. Throughout these endoviors, I was nominated and awarded multiple honors for my work ethic, character, and impact on those around me. Along with my coursework, these projects helped strengthen my electrical background and software development skills that I apply to my current job and personal projects.

Technical Skills Summary #

Work Experience #

DEKA Research and Development #

• Verify PCB assemblies for technical accuracy upon arrival
• Utilize test bench equipment to debug, repair, and modify PCBs
• Perform Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing and analysis for new product line

Ursa Major Technologies #

• Developed a mission critical monitoring application of hydrogen peroxide to support upgrades of the engine test stands. Prometheus and Grafana were used to collect and visualize data essential for safe test stand operation, saving the company an estimated $200,000 in wasted hydrogen peroxide each year
• Utilized Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Apache Kafka to create an event driven software architecture from scratch

Kratos Space and Defense #

• Increased signal acquisition bandwidth from 30 to 500 MHz for the Kratos Global Sensor Network (KGSN)
• Built a Python library to utilize new RF signal digitizers. Library was deployed world wide on KGSN

NASK Inc #

• Increased accuracy of signal capturing software by applying C++ bug fixes to X-Midas primitives to guarantee signal acquisition would occur within 13-33 microseconds of the desired start time, depending on signal bandwidth
• Reduced setup time of RF signal acquisition machines by automating the install of CentOS Linux
• Utilized RedHat Linux Kickstarts to allow for CentOS to be installed and configured automatically over the network using the PXE protocol

Altec Inc #

• Developed a tool capable of logging hundreds of configuration parameters from several CAN devices automatically to assist manufacturing testing and verification
• Worked with several CAN technologies and tool-chains such as CAN open, CCP, vectorCAN, wireshark, socketCAN, and proprietary CAN protocols
• Built and debugged embedded Linux applications utilizing Buildroot, GDB, and other unix development tools

Project Experience #

Car Data Logger #

• Developing software stack to collect and monitor car telemetry following a micro-service architecture model
• Data is ingested via a dockerized RESTful API powered by Java Spring Boot and visualized via Grafana

NASA Student Luanch #

• Established Rose-Hulman’s first rocketry competition team, growing to 40 active students within two years
• Logged 1000+ hours of design and fabrication work in less than 2 years while enrolled full time and working 15-20 hr/wk
• Presented complex technical information to a panel of NASA engineers through a series of 3 design reviews per year

Switching Power Supplies #

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• Designed a built a boost converter 12-14V → 25V, 50W
• Designed and built a buck-boost converter 12-14V → -25V, 50W

Server Rack #

• Architected, deployed, and maintained a server solution to 300+ student peers to accelerate engineering design cycles
• Specifications: ~400 CPU cores, 2TB RAM, and 40TB NAS

Honors and Awards #

Student Representative to University Presidential Committee #

Most Valuable Competition Team Member #

FIRST Robotics Woodie Flowers Mentor Award #

Outstanding Student Leader Award #