Nnaemeka (Emeka) Okafor

Co Director at Vera Aqua Vera Vita
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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, US
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Credentials

  • PCAP - Certified Associate in Python Programming
    Python Institute
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer
    Python Institute
    Jul, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • AI on Cloud
    Great Learning
    Jul, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
    Scrum Alliance
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Google Data Analytics Certificate
    Google

Experience

  • Vera Aqua Vera Vita
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co Director
      • Nov 2021 - Present

      o Co-lead with founder in planning Annual Speakeasy Fundraiser Event, with proceeds used to develop water treatment and sustainment solutions for developing countries.o Led monthly planning meeting of 10+ volunteerso Exceeded fundraising event goal on May 14th of raising $30,000o More information about nonprofit can be found at givetruewater.org o Co-lead with founder in planning Annual Speakeasy Fundraiser Event, with proceeds used to develop water treatment and sustainment solutions for developing countries.o Led monthly planning meeting of 10+ volunteerso Exceeded fundraising event goal on May 14th of raising $30,000o More information about nonprofit can be found at givetruewater.org

  • Raytheon Technologies
    • United States
    • Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior System Engineer
      • Aug 2018 - Nov 2021

      Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learningo Developed Deep Neural Networks artificial intelligence model for classifying maritime ships, part of an internal research and development (IRAD) effort.o Developed a custom ResNet model that showed a 3% area under the ROC curve(AUC) improvement over our previous custom AlexNet model. Performance improvement was on our worst performing feature classifier, the ship Mast.o Used tools such as Python, Tensorflow, Docker, Juypter Lab, Linux Remote WorkstationsSilent Knight Radar Developmento Used model-based engineering to develop models and algorithms for terrain following radars, working closely with Software Engineers in performing Unit, Block, End-to-End, and Hardware in the Loop testing.o Used tools such as Matlab, C, C++APY-10 Radar Developmento Developed an enhanced algorithm for large swath ISAR (Inverse Synthesized Aperture Radar).o Worked with an interdisciplinary team using Agile Scrum framework to implement algorithm in production system and verify with software unit tests.o Developed an image processing algorithm to detect features from the ISAR created images.o Used tools such as Matlab, C, C++

    • Electrical Engineer
      • Dec 2014 - Aug 2018

      Engineering Production Supporto Technical lead on a $4 million project, collaborating with vendors, to develop a new test set to software automate production validation tests for 8 circuit card assemblies for radar applicationo Created a test fixture, incoming test procedure, and an automated analysis datasheet using Visual Basic scripting to automate test measurement analysis for a Pulse Compressor and Surface Acoustic Wave Filter module.o Led biweekly meetings with engineers to foster collaboration of shared knowledge using OpenWiki to improve production cost cycle times. Used Sharepoint Designer to create workflows to manage a web task list.Employee-taught continuing education classes taken: Machine Learning and Algorithms, Principles of Radar, Principles of Systems Engineering, Single-Channel Multi-Mode Radar Fabrication, Receiver-Exciter System Design, Real Time Embedded Systems ProgrammingNumerous Achievement Awards for outstanding job performance

  • Raytheon
    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Electrical Engineer Intern
      • May 2014 - Jul 2014

      Used LabVIEW to interface with and automate RF test measurements, realizing more than 70% time savings and significant budget cost reduction. Used LabVIEW to interface with and automate RF test measurements, realizing more than 70% time savings and significant budget cost reduction.

  • Prairie View A&M University
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
      • Aug 2012 - May 2014

      Distributed Wireless Control System-Team Leader of a group of 5, created a hierarchical wireless network system in which sensors from heterogeneous networks communicate with each other via software-defined radio and relay their information to a host processor for data collection and display.-Used C++, Python, Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP2), ZigBee wireless measurement sensors, GNU Radio open source software, and the UNIX environment programming. DSP Control Algorithms for Advanced Motor Drives- Configured a DSP based electric drive dc motor, permanent magnet synchronous motor, and alternating current induction motor using speed-controlled, current-controlled, and vector control (d,q) algorithms.- Used power electronics drive board, D-Space controller board, MATLAB, Simulink and Control-desk for real-time programming control.Undergraduate Senior Design Adviser - Provided guidance and direction to undergraduate senior design students in creating a demonstration of processing kinetic signals from the human body to control a mobile radio wirelessly using LabVIEW as the interfacing software.- National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project, Award Number: 1238918.

  • Raytheon
    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Electrical Engineering Intern
      • May 2013 - Aug 2013

      Awarded a U.S. Patent in collaboration with 2 other interns and 2 senior engineers.Patent Number 9485125: Dynamically Reconfigurable Channelizer, Raytheon Company, Publication Number US-2015-0365185 Awarded a U.S. Patent in collaboration with 2 other interns and 2 senior engineers.Patent Number 9485125: Dynamically Reconfigurable Channelizer, Raytheon Company, Publication Number US-2015-0365185

  • The University of Texas at Austin
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      • Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

      RFI Mitigation In Wireless Communication Systems-Modeled a digital communication system in MATLAB and investigated optimum filtering techniques in the presence of impulsive and non-impulsive noise. Link to overall research can be found at: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/projects/rfi/index.html RFI Mitigation In Wireless Communication Systems-Modeled a digital communication system in MATLAB and investigated optimum filtering techniques in the presence of impulsive and non-impulsive noise. Link to overall research can be found at: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~bevans/projects/rfi/index.html

Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin
    Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
    2020 - 2020
  • Purdue University
    Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2010 - 2012
  • The University of Texas at Austin
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    2006 - 2010

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