Electrical Engineering Experience

How it unfolded

1. ~2011

   A boost converter before a circuits class

   Self-taught origin: learned soldering and basic C, then designed and built a working boost converter as a freshman, before taking a single electronics or programming course. In 2012 I etched my first circuit board with the toner-transfer method in my college apartment sink, then tested its frequency response. That board landed me the Nanotechnology lab job without a formal application.

2. 2012–2014

   UConn research labs

   Two research assistantships: high-speed memory-device test automation in the Nanotechnology Lab, then the Advanced Power Electronics and Drives Lab. Motor-control algorithms for servo and induction systems, solar and vehicle emulators, and LabVIEW automation that cut research testing time by orders of magnitude. Winter internships at DRS Fermont added CAN frameworks and high-power bidirectional converter tooling. I also mentored high-school students through UConn's Mentor Connection.

3. 2014

   B.S. Electrical Engineering, and a first-place finish

   Graduated from the University of Connecticut. Took 1st place in the 2014 Senior Design Challenge with a linear induction motor test bed.

4. 2014–2015

   Megawatt-class power electronics at Magna-Power

   Core R&D team member on next-generation power supplies at and beyond 1 MW. I designed my first production PCBA from scratch on a team of three engineers, owning circuit design, layout, and test. Controller algorithms in MATLAB/Simulink, C peripheral drivers across a distributed multi-processor system, and control/communication PCBs in Altium.

5. 2016–2020

   Leading electrical design at Bloomy Controls

   Project Engineer, then Senior Electrical Systems Engineer leading electrical design for a company of 50+ people. Boards ranged from simple breakouts to 8-layer MIL-SPEC designs. Led electrical design on a 3-rack, 9,000+ relay aerospace test system, over 95% off-the-shelf, delivered in under 12 months; follow-on orders exceeded 5x the initial contract value. Lead engineer on soldier-carried military electronics designed and tested to MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 and on embedded battery-simulation products. Built the company's first automated test system for its NI SLSC products. The pace could be a design conversation on Monday and a finished, hand-soldered prototype on Friday.

6. 2020–2022

   Embedded systems at Veeder-Root

   Firmware in C/C++ on STM32 with RTOSes for next-generation fuel-forecourt technology. Python test tooling cut hardware characterization from hours to minutes, and an off-the-shelf mesh-network selection cut wireless deployment from months to weeks. Plus the unglamorous work that keeps products alive: failure analysis, end-of-life part replacement, and agency compliance.

7. 2022–2023

   Hydrogen systems at ANGI Energy

   Electrical systems for hydrogen refueling technology compliant with global standards. This is the role that pivoted into simulation software and, eventually, the software career.

8. 2023–2025

   Consulting: load banks and motor control for a stealth startup

   Independent consulting for a stealth-mode California hardware startup, alongside full-time roles. Designed, fabricated, and programmed a custom electronic load for bi-directional converter testing, cutting test-electronics costs by more than 67%. Wrote the embedded controls for a self-healing inverter architecture with 10x the switches per phase and automatic switch-over across 8 fault-driven control modes. Advised on current and next-generation electronics architecture.

9. Ongoing

   The home lab keeps the thread alive

   A home-server and networking hobby that grew into a Proxmox virtualization host with GPU compute and a purpose-built 16-core ML training server. Hardware built to serve the software. The two disciplines stopped being separate a long time ago.