About Me

Principal Electrical Engineer & FPGA Team Lead | Westminster, CO

• Lead FPGA team of 12 engineers for LIDAR receiver and control designs
• Responsible for LIDAR receiver architectures and algorithms
• Algorithm and architecture lead for GMAPD LIDAR Machine Learning including training and real-time FPGA inference
• Standardized designs and processes around Xilinx Zynq UP and Versal chipsets for embedded LIDAR

Principal Electrical Engineer & FPGA Team Lead | Westminster, CO

• Lead FPGA team for LIDAR receiver and control designs on GMAPD/Direct Detection systems
• Developed multiple timing architectures for distributed timing in LIDAR systems
• Organized and ran Ball Internal ML Challenge

Founder & Team Lead | Broomfield, CO

• Founded and led cognitive radio team for DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Grand Challenge (SC2)
• Placed 9th out of 30 teams in Phase 1, earning prize money and Phase 2 admission
• Led design for DSP, Radio, and Machine Learning algorithms plus system architecture
• Implemented Ettus USRP Radio FPGA/RFNoC DSP, Nvidia GPU, and CPU software

FPGA/DSP Engineer | Louisville, CO

• LMCO SSC Advanced Technical Leadership Program (ATLP) participant
• Developed FPGA algorithms and processing hardware for compact LIDAR systems
• Designed Xilinx Zynq embedded ARM/FPGA designs for diagnostics and DSP applications
• Implemented Machine Learning algorithms for wind prediction on Windtracer data
• Led design of low phase noise RF waveform generators and infrared waveform generators
• Designed >1 Gbps free space optical communication transmitter/receiver with packet and FEC
• Implemented real-time atmospheric turbulence correction on low power mobile platforms
• Translated coherent digital holography algorithms from Matlab to VHDL and GPU (CUDA)

Engineer | Syracuse, NY & Eagan, MN

• Developed Labview and Matlab software to automate testing of Deepwater HFTS system
• Analyzed back end processing on Socrates turbulence detection LIDAR
• Conducted testing of production and developmental acoustic sonar sensors

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering

• Thesis: "Fabrication of Long Period Gratings for Ultra Fast Tunable Filter"
• Developed ultra thin long period gratings and electro-optic polymer cladding for tunable filter design

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Hahn Family Farm | Nebraska

• "An athermal design on LPG based tunable filter" - Photonics West 2004, Denver, CO
• "Highly Sensitive Harsh-Environment Sensor Based on Innovative Long-Period Gratings" - Photonics East 2004