About Me

Academia

I graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder in May, 2020 with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. During my time in university, I pursued my interests in mechatronics, automation, and control theory - tailoring my graduate curriculum to project based coursework for hands on experience. I served as a teaching assistant for the undergrad system dynamics course, pursued an independent study under Dr. Shalom Ruben using NVIDIA GPUs, and created a robot to launch nerf projectiles at targets while traversing a maze. I have samples of my technical mettle and schenanigans under my blog and projects page.

Career

Currently I am a Controls Engineer at Trimble in their Autonomy division working with off-road autonomous vehicles for agriculture and construction . Day to day I use a variety of programming languages (C, Python, Simulink) and operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux), and am familiar with communication protocols such as CAN (primarily J1939) and UDP. Most of my work is centered around model based design using Matlab and Simulink for functional safety (ISO 25119, ISO 19014), including generating code from models and wrapping existing C source code for use in simulation.

Prior to off-road autonomy, I have experience in service R&D for the wind industry where I developed a wind turbine blade inspection prototype that was being commercialized by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. My other industry experience includes creating an automated quality control system for a manufacturing facility based off a microcontroller to increase their testing efficiency by 30%.

I regularly use the linux command line and I have developed a personal interest in software/hardware integration. Although I am most comfortable with Matlab and Simulink, I have taught myself C/C++ and python. In my time as a student I have collected a significant amount of embedded hardware which I use in my persoanl projects - my favorite being the Jetson Nano from NVIDIA . I am an avid 3D printer, robotics hobbyist, and musician. Check out my github :octocat: to see what I have been up to recently!

Certifications

Currently, I hold several professional and academic certificates. Most recently I am pursuing courses in Self-Driving vehicles published by the University of Toronto on Coursera.

• Introduction to Self-Driving Cars
• State Estimation and Localization for Self-Driving Cars

Software related certifications:

• NVIDIA Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++
• Embedded Hardware and Software Architecture

Mechanical engineering certifications:

• FE Mechanical Exam
• CSWA (certified SolidWorks associate) (C-33LVZSD55F)
• STK Level 1 Certified

I aspire to better my understanding of autonomy everyday by exercising my existing skillset, picking up projects, and reviewing literature to broaden my domain knowledge.