Who am I?
I am a bay area native that is technically trained as an Electrical Engineer. I enjoy expanding my iTunes library, cooking, going for hikes, and I am always looking to pick up new engineering projects.
My EE focus is in digital electronics, and I have completed multiple projects programing micro-controllers and FPGA's. Additionally I have designed or analyzed circuits/FSM that were breadboarded or CAD-ed using VLSI techniques. I have experience with passive and active circuits, including filters, amplifiers, current sources, radio transmitters, and receivers. I also have taken multiple courses that focus on physics of silicon materials and devices as well as fabrication of these devices.
I have gained a strong interest in embedded programing working with a TI CC3200 in an embedded systems class and working with a NXP kl25z in my senior design project.
Contact
Resume here.
Background
Education gpa = 3.32 combined 2.74 Davis 3.718
University of California Davis 2016
I graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a new fondness for cows.
Napa Valley College 2014
I completed my general education here, and transfered with a A.S. in Natural Science and Mathematics.
Experience
Domaine Chandon 2015
As a grape sampler I was Responsible for picking maturity grape samples, inspecting the vine health and crushing the grapes. Then assisting in analysis of the juice’s Brix, and organic acid content using a refractometer, autotitrator, and enzymatic bio-analyser.
Projects
NATCAR - Autonomous Vehicle Project 2015 - 2016
We programing a NXP micro-controller to trigger and capture ADC conversions on two 128 pixel line scan cameras using a periodic timer, and used PWM signals control two motors and a servo. The algorithm was designed to follow solid colored piece(s) of tape. The algorithm took the slopes at each pixel, then using a moving average threshold we isolated peak slope locations (i.e. the tape edges) and put these indexes through a PD controller that controlled the servo and motors.
Watering System Simulation 2016
One TI board collected ADC data from wired moisture, temp and humidity sensors, and a servo adjusted pipe water flow depending on soil moisture. Using SPI an oled display presented the temp, humidity, and the valve position. A second TI board reads a pulse width from a wired ultrasonic sensor to monitor a well’s depth. If low depth a servo opens pipe water flow, and a water pump activates. Each board uses ifttt to send a sms message if a plant is dry or a well is low depth.
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Skills
Laboratory
Electronics: Breadboard analog and digital circuits, and use of oscilloscopes, function generators, logic analyzers.
Clean-room: Photo-lithography processing of wafer and MEMS devices. Including wafer cleaning, photo-resist application and development, alignment and exposure, plasma and BOE, electrical characterization and step height analysis.
Software
Code composer, keil uVision, Quartus 2, ModelSim, Magic VLSI, Hspice, CosmosScope, Microsoft Office.
Micro-controllers / FPGA
NXP FRDM-KL25Z (ARM Cortex M0+), TI CC3200 (ARM Cortex M4), Altera DE2 FPGA.
Interrupts, GPIO, ADC, Timers (PWM, PIT, GPT), SPI, I2C, UART, DMA, pin muxing.
C / Embedded C
First language that I learned. Used to create algorithm's and run embedded systems.
Verilog
Used ModelSim and Quartus 2 to do functional, and timing simulations of designs as well as synthesize the design to an Altera DE2 FPGA.
Matlab
I have used it to complete many homework assignments and projects, one example is testing an algorithm against imported data before implementation in C.
Python
Self taught using on-line material from Universities.
Assembly
Learned in a computer architecture class, that taught the MIPS processor instruction set.
HTML
This website:)
CSS
This website:)
Office
Years of experience. I have used Excel mostly to import data sets, graph the data, and use the graph to then test algorithms that are later implemented into a control system.
Adobe CS
A year of classroom experience, and additional personal use with Photoshop and Illustrator.