Experience
Software Engineer
Passport
March 2021 - Present - Remote with HQ in Charlotte, NC
- Building modern parking permit and curbside reservation applications for government clients and their customers
- Serverless microservice development on AWS with the Serverless Framework and NodeJS. We manage several dozen services using DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS, SNS, SQS, Elastic Search, and much more!
- Web application development for customers and governments built with React
- Contributed significantly to implementing new AWS services (Open Search, ECS) and internal libraries, and representing my team in architectural decisions
Solutions Consultant Specialist
Dassault Systemes (formerly CST of America)
April 2014 - July 2018 - Bay Area, California
- Technical Account Management - Provide direct technical support for two of CST's largest Silicon Valley accounts
- Pre-sales Technical Support - Provide technical presentations, benchmarks, simulation guidance, and direct support to prospective CST customers
- Advise engineers and managers on ideal numerical solutions to a variety of antenna, microwave, and PCB products
- Draft educational materials on simulation software for both internal use and for customers
- Instruct training courses and workshops
Microwave and Sensors Engineer
Sandia National Labs
March 2010 - April 2014 - Livermore, California
- Antenna simulation, design, and measurement in complex fixtures
- Simulation, design, and measurement of broadband microwave matching networks and filters
- Sensor R&D
- International Collaboration with AWE of the United Kingdom
Master's Engineer
Northrop Grumman
June 2009 - December 2009 - North Highlands, California
- Indoor and outdoor far-field antenna measurements
- VSWR and mutual coupling measurements for antenna arrays
- Automation of antenna qualification using OriginLab scripting language
Research Assistant
iNANO
June 2007 - September 2008 - UC Davis
- Optical reflectance and transmittance measurements of nano- and micro-structures deposited on economical substrates
Education
UCLA
MS in Electrical Engineering - September 2010 - March 2012
Critical Skills Masters Program Fellowship - Sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories
Thesis
Determining Integrated Lens Antenna Far-Field Patterns Using Geometrical Optics and the Aperture Field
Outlines a method for determining the far-field radiation pattern of an electrically large integrated lens antenna. Rays are traced from the phase center of an antenna aperture, refracted from the lens boundary, and then sampled on a plane in front of the lens. The far-field is then computed using a near-field to far-field transformation from fields on this plane. The results are compared with time-domain simulations in CST Microwave Studio.
UC Davis
BS with High Honors in Electrical Engineering - September 2002 - June 2009
Regents Scholar