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
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