Rapid Prototype Integration Engineer

Meta Reality Labs

• Designed internal tools for the introduction of new audio device prototypes.
• Incorporated a wide range of sensors, technologies, and algorithms to test new ideas for the metaverse.
• Collaborated with software and hardware engineers to develop state-of-the-art testbeds for new audio technologies.

Principal Engineer

Maker Portal LLC

• Embarked on an entrepreneurial venture in the field of software development and engineering content development.
• Published a Bluetooth iPhone application that interfaces with microcontrollers.
• Extensive experience with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Python, sensors and motors.

PhD Research Fellow

NOAA-CESSRST - The City College of New York

• Developed image processing techniques for satellite data over urban infrastructure.
• Created high-level products for NOAA including: air temperature, heat Storage, and net radiation.
• Managed research instruments such as: sonic anemometers, gas analyzers, thermal cameras, rain gauges, among others.

Adjunct Instructor

The City College of New York

• Instructed mechanical engineering students in a laboratory setting.
• Experiments and lectures pertaining to fluid mechanics and heat transfer.
• Topics include: lift and drag on an airfoil, heated fin, viscous flow down a tube, parallel and counter heat exchanger.

Graduate Research Intern

NOAA Satellite Application and Research Team

• Aided the Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) team in quantifying the accuracy of the land surface temperature product for the GOES-16 satellite.
• Correlated ground stations to satellite pixels to develop an air temperature model.

Platform Architecture Intern

Hewlett Packard Labs

• Conducted experiments in electronics cooling using vapor chambers.
• Managed, collected, and analyzed data to help HPE compare cooling technologies.
• Tools used: thermocouples, flow meters, fluid pumps, thermistors, pressure sensors.

Human Factors & Controls Intern

Idaho National Laboratory

• Developed signal processing software for nuclear reactor monitoring.
• Correlated vibrational behavior to operating conditions using Fourier analysis.
• Created a Guided User Interface (GUI) software in MATLAB for technicians.

Laboratory Teaching Assistant

Pennsylvania State University

• Guided graduate students through various engineering acoustics experiments.
• Consolidation, preparation, and inventory of acoustic equipment..
• Worked with sound level meters, oscilloscopes, hydrophones, accelerometers

Graduate Research Assistant

Pennsylvania State University

• Studied the effects of a nuclear-powered acoustic resonator.
• Acoustically characterized a complex and atypical environment.
• Worked with accelerometers, hydrophones, signal processing software (MATLAB).