Experience

EpiSci

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Engineer

  • May 2021 - Present

  • Wrote and won proposal for 2-year DARPA SQUIRREL project. (Project management ongoing.) • Won the CRANE Phase II (sim) and Phase III (real) challenges, which involve a flying drone autonomously mapping and exploring an unknown, indoor environment, detecting objects, and placing those objects in the map. • Placed 1st in the MoSAIC Navigation challenge and placed 3rd in the Human-Object Tagging challenge. • Advanced past LifeLink Stage 1 and Stage 2 qualifications. (Participation in Stage 3 still ongoing.) • Plan, direct, and/or manage several sUAS projects (e.g., SwarmSense, LifeLink, MoSAIC, Te-UAS, RF-TOUCAN). Show less



Purdue University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2016 - May 2021

  • Supported multi-year, multi-million IARPA DIVA grant to develop robust, automatic activity recognition for a multi-camera streaming video environment. o Fastest and second-best system in phase II, competing against 9 other teams. o Granted phase-2 and phase-3 funding• Developed a robotic system that autonomously solved The Amazing Race in a building o Intelligently explored and mapped an unknown environment o Detected, tracked, and approached humans o Engaged in dialogue with humans to get directions to a destination o Followed directions throughout a building o Constantly observed surroundings, reading text and detecting objects o Created a semantic map of rooms, objects, and text that the robot could reason over o Dynamically planned which robotic behaviors to engage in based on stimuli from the environment Show less

• • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

  Distributed and graded assignments

• • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

  Distributed and graded assignments

• • Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

  Created curriculum and taught class sessionsDesigned, distributed, and graded assignments



L-3 Communication Systems - West

• • Oct 2013 - Sep 2016

  Direct Product Line ATL (Automated Test Lab)• Reduce total DVT (Design Verification Test) time from 5 weeks to 2-3 days• Save $10,000 - $100,000 per SW release• Test 8000+ requirements across seven products upon demand (usually nightly)• Lead a software team (up to 6 programmers) that have automated up to 80% of some DVTs• Maintain 6 racks of equipment totaling > $1M in assets• Manage a multi-year, >$1M capital effort to develop an automated test lab • Direct improvements, enhancements, and bug fixes to internal webpage that provides tools, scheduling, results, and export/report capabilities• Oversee development, enhancement, and bug fixes of home-grown tools that support ATL (ResourceConflictDetectionResolution, ExceptionFinder, LiveLogViewer, RosettaStone) • Participate in the development of ATL Test SW, tools, and webpage (programming in Java, C#, mySQL, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)• Accountable for Capital and WO budgets Show less

• • Feb 2013 - Sep 2016

  Managed multiple IRAD (Internal Research And Development) projects• One multi-year project; several (5+) single-year projects• Oversee budgets of $875k, $568k (multi-year project), and several below $200k• Manage and direct interdisciplinary teams of up to nine engineers (with disciplines in software, networking, RF, FPGA design, and technical writing) • Work with programs and IRAD committee regarding deliverables and dependencies• Coordinate resources to meet variable-length schedules (from 3 to 14 months)• Responsible to create and execute plans, make decisions regarding risk, adjust work to meet changing scope/requirements, track and report progress• Accountable to IRAD committee and program management for budget, schedule, and work performance Show less

• • Aug 2011 - Sep 2016

  Supporting the standardization and automation of Product Line requirements and tests• Awarded L-3’s 2012 Spirit of Excellence award (which recognizes teams that greatly impacted company’s success)• Designed and implemented a vast project in DOORS to standardize and handle all Product Line requirements and tests• Through standardization and re-use, reduced requirement objects from 20,401unique objects to 2,449 shared objects (88% reduction) and test objects from 31,952 unique objects to 6,454 shared objects (an 80% reduction)• Created concrete traceability between 100’s of tests and 1000’s of requirements• Aided in the automation of tests (which reduces the SW release cycle from 5 weeks to 1 week and eliminates 240 engineering hours) which has saved $100k's in program costs to date• Scripted many tools that perform tasks ranging from metrics and error-checking to updating, linking, and preparing modules/documents for release Show less

• • May 2009 - Sep 2016

  Providing life cycle engineering of Mini-T, Mini-Ti, Mini-T2 and STINGER modems• Directed a team (and participated in) the discovery of the root cause of a product reset condition. Tested and implemented the solution, thus preventing the reset from occurring in the field• Aided in root cause discovery, solution, and implementation of a production failure (improving yield rate from ~70% to ~95%)• Introduced new flexible cabling that increased product yield from 70% to 91%• Improved grounding scheme on EMI testing to reduce Ethernet noise by 14-18 dB and bring emissions 10 dB under the limit• Wrote TP's for - and performed - environmental testing for EMI/EMC, humidity, temperature, altitude, vibration, and rain• Written Technical Reference Manuals, User Manuals, Quick Reference Guides, GUI Manuals, Test Procedures, and more• Regularly work with engineers from a large number of disciplines: RF, PCB, Signal Integrity, SW, Test, Advanced Comm’s (Black and Red FPGA), Mechanical, Systems, Failure Analysis, and Optics.• Regularly interact with individuals from a large number of backgrounds: finance, scheduling, program management, marketing, operations, testing, CMMI, etc.• Performed flight test• Government clearance (SECRET) Show less

• • Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

  Prepare division for SCAMPI B and SCAMPI A (CMMI Level 3 certification).• Responsible for reviewing and recommending process changes for Product Integration Focus Area• Discovered and documented current state of PI. Identified gaps, vetted with management, and recommended process changes• Completed CMMI-DEV v1.3 training



CareerStep

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Apr 2008 - May 2009

  Programmed in HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and MySQL • Designed and created Placement Direct (a suite of tools used by Career Step graduates, employers, and administrators to interface with each other). Over 1700 graduates are using the tools (and obtaining jobs with 150+ employers) as of Sept 2010. • Designed and created Web tools for new version of online training courses Programmed in HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and MySQL • Designed and created Placement Direct (a suite of tools used by Career Step graduates, employers, and administrators to interface with each other). Over 1700 graduates are using the tools (and obtaining jobs with 150+ employers) as of Sept 2010. • Designed and created Web tools for new version of online training courses



BYU Computer Science

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2008 - Apr 2008

  • Taught college students the basic principles of Java programming • Taught college students the basic principles of Java programming



American Satellite Company

• Sales Representative

  • May 2007 - Aug 2007

  • Sold highest volume of satellite systems in office of 12 sales reps • Sold highest volume of satellite systems in office of 12 sales reps