Key Achievement: Defined requirements and coordinated work between design agencies and vendors to develop automated UAV takeoff and conveyance system to improve throughput for drone-based operations

• Drove aircraft hardware modification projects to improve delivery package stability and dropoff success, resulting in a 50% increase in delivery success rate
• Developed discrete-event simulation environment using Python with GUI to better understand drone delivery operations at scale,thus enabling key decision-making without costly investment and experimentation
• Created and implemented team structure, standards, and best practices for a new team

Key Achievement: Integrated sensor-fusion technology into intelligent vehicle platform to deliver high-precision, low-cost localization technology, resulting in winning high-value permit to operate in Chicago, IL

• Translated problem statements from operations teams into feature specifications,thereby improving vehicle downtime and profit margins by 30%
• Communicated complex topics to non-technical teams to improve accuracy and clarity of marketing materials and technological expectations to external stakeholders and internal partners

Key Achievement: Developed hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) fixture and software tests for vehicle platform, increasing fault injection and stability test coverage by over 10x and drastically reducing release defects

• Built manufacturing test log database, data pipeline, and tooling from scratch resulting 35% cycle time reduction on manufacturing line, amongst many other use-cases
• Upgraded test report analytics to improve data consumption and debugging capability of engineering teams to reduce time-to-market for new features
• Designed and specified manufacturing test fixture that enabled offline firmware updates during final assembly to streamline communications and troubleshooting processes with manufacturing partners in China
• Managed vehicle firmware release process that included performance field testing and validation, engineering hange order documentation, and education of operations teams on feature set changes

Key Achievement: Triggered over $120,000 in sales for vision-based sensors and laser markers

• Generated 30+ sales leads for technical industrial automation products using a proprietary customer relationship management (CRM) system
• Assisted sales engineers during various in-person sales calls, product demonstrations, and technical support for high precision measurement tooling

Key Achievement: Published “A Cyber-Physical Testbed Design for the Electric Power Grid” research paper in IEEE Xplore via the North American Power Symposium

• Directed undergraduate research team in developing cyber-physical power grid testbed
• Designed testbed for cyber attack analysis and defense strategy development

Key Achievement: Determined empirical relationshipbetween capacitance and liquid volume

• Designed and operated test equipment for novel 3D imaging technology for use in non-destructive testing
• Furthered multi-phase mass-flow meter based on ‘electrical capacitance volume tomography’
• Modified plumbing system to incorporate stratified flow into a multiphase flow loop for testing

Key Achievement: Modified work instructions to reduce cycle time by 11 hours on three separate parts.

• Mapped value stream of aircraft electronics component to identify and implement cycle time reduction methods, resulting in time savings of $1000 per cycle of medium volume product
• Redesigned facility floor plan according to Lean manufacturing principles to improve efficiency by removing need for products to traverse a large facility multiple times during assembly and test
• Improved generator electronics work instructions based on engineering change orders
• Inspected and logged nonconforming electronic components
• Developed user interface and basic code for a aircraft generator miscommunication detector