Oceaneering
Electrical and Software Engineer September 2014 – Present
- Supported and developed a software intelligent diagnostic system to determine hardware defects in ROVs
- Designed and implemented a GUI for a secondary ROV control interface
Mako Surgical Corporation
Software Quality Assurance Intern January 2013 – September 2014
- Analyze, create, dry run, and formally execute software test cases for FDA approval
- Create, track, and verify bugs in development and released software
- Worked hands on to develop and test new versions of the world’s leading orthopedic robot
Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR)
Undergraduate Researcher January 2009 – January 2012
- Work with emergency responders and researchers under Dr. Robin Murphy
- Maintain and prepare robots for emergencies and search and rescue situations
2009
- Helped develop and build Survivor Buddy 1 (Popular Science winner of Best of What’s New 2009)
- Assisted with Robots to the Rescue Episode of PBS kids show “SciGirls”
- Literature review to update design of Survivor Buddy
2010
- Redesigned Survivor Buddy to better achieve its stated goals
- Constructed the original Survivor Buddy 2.0 according to revised design
- Wrote paper for IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation
2011
- Aided the construction of an additional order of Survivor Buddy 2.0 units
- Placed Survivor Buddy in the Smithsonian for National Robotics Awareness Week
- Literature review on how color, shape, and other physical attribute affect human perception of robots