Experience

Work

--- Industry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(June - Aug 2009) ....... Texas Instruments; Cary, NC: Engineering and Marketing Internship

(June - Aug 2005) ....... General Motors Tech Center; Warren, MI: Engineering Internship

(Jan - May 2005) ......... General Electric; San German, PR: Co-op Internship

(June - Aug 2004) ....... General Motors Tech Center; Warren, MI: Engineering Internship

(June - Aug 2003) ........ NASA Glenn Research Center; Cleveland, OH: Research Internship

--- Research and Academic --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Sept 2011 - Present) ..... ECE Department, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL: Teaching Assistant

(Sept 2009 - Present) ..... WAMs Laboratory, University of Florida; Gainesville, FL: Research Assistant

(July '08 - April 2009) ...... WICS Laboratory, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI: Research Associate

(Sept '07 - June 2008) ..... WICS Laboratory, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI: Graduate Student Research Assistant

(Jan - April 2008) ............EECS Department, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI: Teaching Assistant

(May - Sept 2007) ...........EECS Department, University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI: Research Assistant

(Aug - Dec 2004) ............ ECE Department, University of Puerto Rico; Mayaguez, PR: Research Assistant

 

Projects

(Fall 2010) ....... Time-Domain Convolution Digital Circuit using VHDL

(Fall 2010) ....... Study and Implementation of Urgency-based MAC (U-MAC) Protocol

(Spring 2010) ... Effect of ISI due to Multipath Fading on Non-Coherent UWB Receivers

(Fall 2009) ....... TCP Transmission Rate Control

(Fall 2008) ....... Magnetic Levitation Controller

(Fall 2007) ....... S-Band Down-ConverterReceiver Front-End

(Fall 2007) ....... Auto-tunable IR Sensor for Use in IR Wireless Communications

(Spring 2007) ... Fully-Integrated AM Radio Receiver

(Fall 2006) ....... Modified Cherry-Hooper Amplifier

(Fall 2005) ....... Automated Monitoring and Cleaning System for Aquariums

(Fall 2005) ....... Sound Pressure Level (SPL) Meter

(Fall 2005) ....... 8-bit Adder-Subtractor

(Spring 2004) ... Temperature Controller Circuit

(Spring 2003) .... BCD to 7-segment Converter

 

Software

Control and Communication Systems: MATLAB, Simulink, LabView

Electronic Design: Cadence, Multisim, PSpice, Electronics Workbench

Programming Languages: Perl, Java, Visual Basic, C/C++, Prolog, VHDL

Layout and engineering graphics: Microsoft Visio, AutoCAD

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix

Office: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook

 

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