Experience

University of Michigan Solar Car Team

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Electrical Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Provide advice and support to Solar Car's current leadership team and general members as we design the world's fastest and most efficient Solar Car. In this role, drawing on industry standard practices, I am also updating the Solar Car's firmware code base to follow a standardized coding standard and implementing a modern DevOps process to minimize coding bugs and increase the development speed and reliability of our firmware. I am doing this as a continuation of my goal to lower the… Show more Provide advice and support to Solar Car's current leadership team and general members as we design the world's fastest and most efficient Solar Car. In this role, drawing on industry standard practices, I am also updating the Solar Car's firmware code base to follow a standardized coding standard and implementing a modern DevOps process to minimize coding bugs and increase the development speed and reliability of our firmware. I am doing this as a continuation of my goal to lower the barrier of entry to embedded system development many of Solar Car's new members experience when they join the team.

• Electrical Lead

  • Sep 2020 - Nov 2022

  Oversee the design and integration of the battery, solar array, and all embedded systems in the Solar Car.

• Race Electrical Engineer

  • Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

  As a Race Electrical Engineer, I worked with the entire Race Team to drive our 2022 solar car, Aevum over 4000 miles first in a test event around the perimeter of Michigan and then in an exhibition event across the North American continent from New York, New York to Los Angeles, California to push the boundaries of what is possible with solar power and raise awareness around it. During this I lead the installation and use of new set of sensors to characterize our car to a depth the team never… Show more As a Race Electrical Engineer, I worked with the entire Race Team to drive our 2022 solar car, Aevum over 4000 miles first in a test event around the perimeter of Michigan and then in an exhibition event across the North American continent from New York, New York to Los Angeles, California to push the boundaries of what is possible with solar power and raise awareness around it. During this I lead the installation and use of new set of sensors to characterize our car to a depth the team never had before. This data will inform the development of solar cars for years to come.

• Race Microsystems Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

  In this role, I coordinated the development of the PCBs powering the embedded systems of the team's 16th car, Aevum, while the world's supply chains were in shatters from COVID19 and the chip shortage. This required an adaptable and agile development process where systems that traditionally could be copies of each other had to use different components due to sever supply constraints. To support our manufacturing needs, I developed relationships with 3 new PCBs manufactures and strengthened… Show more In this role, I coordinated the development of the PCBs powering the embedded systems of the team's 16th car, Aevum, while the world's supply chains were in shatters from COVID19 and the chip shortage. This required an adaptable and agile development process where systems that traditionally could be copies of each other had to use different components due to sever supply constraints. To support our manufacturing needs, I developed relationships with 3 new PCBs manufactures and strengthened relations with our existing manufacturer as wells as worked with a wide range of component manufactures and resellers. Doing this I and our operations team developed 4 new sponsorship agreements between the companies and the solar car team. In addition to coordinating our PCB manufacturing, I worked with the rest our electrical engineering team to design adaptable PCBs that could use multiple different chips to perform the same functionality so a supply shortage of one would not require redesigns. To help achieve this, I transitioned the teams collaboration and version control management for hardware from GitHub to Altium 365 allowing for component library standardization and simplified design review process. I also implemented an inventory tracking solution using AirTable's software to allow the electrical engineering team to know component inventory in real time.



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lifeguard

  • Aug 2021 - Present

• Lifeguarding and CPR Instructor

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Lead classes teaching fellow students at the University of Michigan and members of the community the lifesaving skills of CPR and lifeguarding necessary to be a first line responder.