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Work Experience
Intel (SSD Electrical Verification Engineer) - Contract

CNC Laser Engraver, Business Venture

April 2014 August 2014

Conducted surveys into LFP battery life expectancy, cycle performance and state of charge estimations
Researched performance of various emerging battery technologies suited towards intermittent charging
Simulated MPPT hardware solar cell converters in Simulink and LTspice
Designed control system and inverter for a wind turbine PMSG using DQO axis control in Simulink
Researched advanced power supply topologies geared towards high voltages and currents
Conducted various in depth literature surveys into GaN/SiC Semiconductors and multi-port converters

Analytic Systems Ware (Systems Engineer CO-OP)

January 2016- Present

Designed control board (laser diode and stepper motor drivers), firmware and software
Product featured axis limit fault detection, CRC protected communication and image translation tools
Created an easy to use GUI to communicate with the control board
Designed communication protocol specifically suited towards raster engravers
Attempting to sell control board/firmware/software as an add on to existing CNC systems
Machined 600x500mm CNC to facilitate development of software/firmware

Simon Fraser University (Research Engineer CO-OP)

March 2015 -March 2016

Designed test flow to conduct silicon validation on cutting edge SSDs (power and ECC)
Discovered a bug in ECC model using Python scripts; alleviated concerns about actual silicon ECC integrity
Designed library in Python to simulate data flows through SSD, increasing testing turn-around time
Designed procedures and hardware to cool silicon which detected issues at lower temperatures
Provided guidance and solutions relating to ECC during silicon bring up of brand new ASICs
Found several ASIC and environmental discrepancies and bugs saving possible re-spins or product redefinitions
Dictated requirements for testing ASIC power leading to the discovery of several important power bugs

April 2013 August 2013

Resolved bugs during 10kW power supply R&D including incorrect dead-band PWM generation
Tested products for efficiency, operating temperatures and waveforms
Conducted cost-benefit analysis of SiC devices and recommended using traditional transistors
Designed 2kW DC load and various enclosures reducing external design costs
Successfully modified mission critical military power converters to facilitate R&D
Captured schematics using Altium Designer, conducted various LTspice simulations
Designed hardware prototypes including inrush and fan control circuits and a novel GFCI circuit breaker
Gained experience on power supply topologies, MOSFETs, IGBTs and troubleshooting circuits

Projects
Railgun, Personal Project

MPPT Solar Charger, SFU (Senior Design Project)

August 2016- Present

Conceptualized mechanical design in CAD including

Designed high voltage flyback DC/DC converter utilizing snubbers, cycle-by-cycle current control and variable
voltage ramp features. Wrote firmware for dsPIC33 to control the converter functionality
Specified requirements for magnetics of the flyback transformer
Laid out converter PCB and Railgun features to minimize high voltage hazards and arcing

December 2013 - April 2014

Participated in power stage design, control and MPPT algorithm of solar cell battery charger
Gained experience working with Lead-Acid batteries, wrote firmware to take batteries through charge cycles
Conducted theoretical analysis to determine component values for current sense circuits and main inductor
Successfully designed sensors and high-side gate drives taking into account switching speeds, cost, and power
Soldered PCB and conducted testing to prove correct functionality and troubleshot errors

mOhm Meter, Personal Project

January 2015

Designed a .0001 resolution mOhm meter to measure small resistances using the force/sense method
Used PGAs to achieve large dynamic range for ADC eliminating the need for costly high accuracy ADCs
PCB designed in Altium Designer; special care taken to increase front end sensitivity
Ergonomically designed front panel; used high speed LED 7 segment display with rapid update rates
Project based around a dsPIC33 microcontroller

DQO PMSM Wind Turbine Simulation, SFU (Research Assistant)

June 2014

Implemented a PMSG controller in Simulink to track optimal tip velocity for MPPT
Researched DQ axis theory for induction and permanent magnet motors
Designed a PI DQO controller to regulate torque to achieve optimal tip velocity was achieved
Implemented six leg three phase inverter with SPWM to control PMSG

NTSC Video Decoder, SFU

March 2013

Designed a high speed (5Mhz) NTSC video decoder using analog circuitry
Designed vertical and horizontal syncing circuits. Implemented high speed buffers and filters with opamps
Utilized current feedback operational amplifiers to achieve high bandwidth

Analog Signal Delay Line, Personal Project

December 2014

Designed a digitally implemented analog delay based around a serial SRAM and a dsPIC33
Utilized SPI communication to access 1MBIT memory chip where a buffer was implemented
Simulated analog portion of the circuit in LTSpice, PCB was designed in Altium Designer
Synchronized operation of DAC/ADC/Memory read/writes to achieve proper delay line operation

Laser Scanner, Personal Project

December 2013

Integrated hardware/software design of DC motor controllers, laser drivers, laser transducers and positional
tracking
Successfully scanned images and transmitted information to control PC via UART

Education
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Electronics Engineering , 3.41 Engineering UDGPA

September 2009- December 2014

Skills
Hardware Skills

Software Skills

Other Skills

Power supply topologies

Embedded C, Python

Altium Designer

NAND technologies

UART/SPI/I2C

Lithium/LA batteries

Analog/digital simulations

FGPA and VHDL

MATLAB/Simulink

ONFI3,ONFI4

RTOS

GaN/SiC semiconductors

Logic analyzers and oscilloscopes

Assembly

Document management

Analog and digital electronics

SolidWorks, 3DsMax

UL standards

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