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Experience

  • Mechanical engineer no company · Freelance May 2025 – Present 1 yrs 4 mos Houston, TX, USA
  • Mechanical Robotics Engineer Intevac · Full-time Mar 2020 – Apr 2025 5 yrs 1 mos Santa Clara, California, United States • Designed and modified mechanical components in SolidWorks, improving manufacturability and reducing rework costs.
    • Produced detailed 2D engineering drawings, GD&T annotations, and BOMs to streamline procurement and production.
    • Collaborated in design reviews, contributing mechanical solutions that improved tool reliability and test efficiency.
  • Mechanical Engineer ARA · Full-time Oct 2016 – Feb 2020 3 yrs 4 mos Maryland, United States Research, develop, test, evaluate (RDT&E), manufacture, and provide in-service support of energetics and energetic systems. Working and partnering with subject matter experts to ensure safe and cost-effective execution of production capabilities for energetic materials and related applications (munitions, rockets, warheads, etc.).
    * Support the design and implementation of efficient systems and processes
    * Collaborate with senior engineers and project managers on various projects.
    * Work under supervised direction but can independently determine and develop approaches to solutions.
    * Continuous learning to develop and ensure technical competence.
    * Ensure proper execution of the project, including planning, scheduling, and procurement.
    * Responsible for the implementation of safety and quality programs.
    * Ability to manage and prioritize numerous assignments.
  • Research and Development Intern Stryker · Internship Oct 2015 – May 2016 7 mos San Jose, California, United States ❖ Designed and prototyped a new multi piece surgical device for use in multiple joint spaces, with all
    pieces designed for injection molded manufacturing then rapid hand assembly and loading
    ❖ Iterated CAD models in Solidworks PDM, undergoing regular design reviews and iterations, resulting
    in a completed CAD assembly and functional 3D printed prototypes used for testing
    ❖ Tested new and in development products with various instruments (Keyence, Instron, force gauges)
    ❖ Designed test fixtures and created industry standard reports of testing protocols and results
  • Mechanical Engineering Intern Tesla · Internship Feb 2015 – Sep 2015 7 mos Fremont, California, United States Redesigned internal tool, designing housing using CATIA and PCB in KiCad, optimizing for cost and ease of assembly collaborated with suppliers resulting in an 82% cost down and a 90% assembly time decrease
    Designed, prototyped, and presented to executives an industry first mechanism for seat adjustability to increase performance capabilities, including pneumatic controlled air cells and resistive switch control
    Discovered, modified, and implemented a supplier part change creating an annual 5 figure cost savings

Education

  • Los Angeles Pierce College Bachelor's Degree, MECHANIAL ENGINEERING, 3 2012 – 2014
  • Boise State University Associate, Mechanical Engineeering, 5 2008 – 2012

Other experience

  • PCB design practice using tools like KiCad / Altium / Eagle Service->Hardware design service:
    - Power electronics design: (PFC, Solar charging controller, chargers, high voltage control, Motor controllers DC/AC/BLDC )
    - Analog electronics design: High-accuracy analog measurements, Noise filtration, Digital to analog conversion, Amplifying signal
    - Digital and high-speed electronics design: - Memories DDRx/LPDDRx, SDRAM, Camera and display interfaces (MIPI-DSI, MIPI-CSI, DisplayPort, etc), Data communication interfaces (QSpi, SPI, UART, I2C, FMC, I2S, USB 2/3.x, etc), (
    - RF Designs: ( 50-60 GHz (Radars), 1-6 GHz (UWB, Wifi, BLE, ZigBee, GPS, NB-IoT, LTE-M/LTE, Z-Wave, etc), 13,6 MHz, 128 kHz (NFC, RFID, etc), 433 MHz (Custom protocols)

    Service->Firmware design С/C++:
    - Languages: C/C++, Assembler
    - Diagrams: Block, UML, Workflow, APIs
    - Interfaces: I2S, SAI, MIPI-DSI, MIPI-CSI, USB 2/3.x, LTDC, DDR3/DDR4/LPDDR4, I2C, SPI/QSPI, UART, CAN, Ethernet
    - Wireless: NB-IoT, LTE M, GPRS, GPS, LTE, UWB, WiFi, BLE, ZigBee, Z-Wave, LoRa, Thread, 6LoWPAN, Sub 1GHz, NFC (13,6 MHz), RFID 433 MHZ and 128 kHz
    - Protocols : MQTT, HTTP, FTP, Modbus TCP/RTU, SNMP, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, DLMS, custom protocols
    - Security: AES, SSL/TLS, custom algorithms
    - Libs and frameworks: TouchGFX (GUI lib for MCU), emWin (GUI lib for MCU), LVGL (GUI lib for MCU), WolfSSL (SSL/TLS), Mbed TLS(SSL/TLS), osxMotionFX (Sensors fusion algorithm based on the Kalman theory), FatFS, lwIP (TCP/IP stack), WICED (Wifi stack), aws/amazon-freertos, Paho MQTT, TensorFlow
    - Embedded OS: FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS, ZephyrOs, Embedded Linux, Yocto, ROS
    - MCUs: NXP (i.MX RT1064, LPC1100, LPC4000), Nordic (NRF52xx/NRF53xx/NRF91xx), TI (CC3220/CC26xx/CC1100/CC3200, MSP430), Espressif (esp32, esp8266), ST(STM32H7/F7/F4/L4/F0/L0/WB/WL/G0 and STM8), Atmel/Microchip(SAM D20/D21/L21/R21/V70/V71, SAMA5/SAM4/SAMD4), Silicon Labs(EFR32, ZGM130S), Cypress (PSoC 3/PSoC 4), Kinetis (Family MK81FN256VDC15), Holtek (HT68xx)
    - MPUs: Analog Devices (ADSP-2156x SHARC), Qualcomm (Snapdragon 625/425/610/845), Allwinner (A64, A33, H3, H6 series), NXP (I.MX6/I.MX7/I.M8) , ST(STM32MP1)
    - SOMs: NVIDIA Jetson nano, NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, Toradex (Colibri iMX6, IMX7, IMX8), Raspberry pi (CM3, CM4 modules), Inforce (Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, 820, 845 SOM), 8devices (Mango on Qualcomm IPQ6000/IPQ6010 Soc), Sensiedge(SensiBle 1 and 2, SensiLora)

Stats

Age: 36

Joined: September 21, 2026

Last seen: September 25, 2026

Languages

English Native or bilingual proficiency

Location

Houston, TX, United States

Houston, TX, United States