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Education
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Electronics Engineering
3.410 GPA for all Upper Division Engineering courses, Deans Honor Roll

Sep 2009-Dec 2014

Skills
Software Skills

Hardware Skills

Other

FGPA and VHDL

Digital Circuit Timing Requirements

Altium Designer

C++, Java, OOP, QNX

Logic synthesis

Lithium/LA batteries

NCsim

PSPICE, HSPICE

MATLAB/Simulink

Embedded C

Analog and digital electronics

GaN/SiC semiconductors

UART/SPI/I2C

Electric Motors (PMSM)

Document Management

Assembly

Rotating Field Control (DQ, ABC)

Altium Designer

Projects
MPPT Solar Charger, SFU (Senior Design Project)
Dec 2013 - April 2014

Designed a MPPT solar cell battery charger; involved with power stage, control and MPPT algorithm

Gained experience working with Lead-Acid batteries

Conducted theoretical analysis to determine components values

Successfully designed sensors and high-side gate drives

Soldered PCB, conducted testing to prove correct functioning and troubleshot errors
milliOhm Meter, Personal Project
Jan 2015

Designed a mOhm meter to measure small resistances such as shunts using the force/sense method

Utilized SPI to communicate to PGAs to achieve large dynamic range for ADC

Analog portion of circuit designed carefully to increase sensitivity, PCB etched in acid at home

Front panel made to look visually appealing, used high speed LED 7 segment displays

Project based around a dsPIC33 microcontroller

DQO PMSM Wind turbine simulation, SFU (Research Assistant)
June 2014

Successfully implemented a PMSG controller in Simulink to track optimal tip velocity for MPPT

Learned about DQ axis theory for induction and permanent magnet motors

Designed a PI DQO controller to control torque such that optimal tip velocity was achieved

Six Leg three phase inverter and SPWM was used to control the PMSG
Guitar Hero Clone, SFU (Digital System Design)
March 2014

Designed Guitar Hero(video game) clone based on a Altera DE2-115(Cyclone IV) in VHDL

Programmed FPGA to display video on a LCD monitor

Wrote karplus-strong guitar note synthesis algorithm

Correctly programmed game graphics and time/note correlation

NTSC Video Decoder, SFU(Advanced Microelectronics)

Mar 2013

Successfully designed a high speed (5Mhz) NTSC video decoder using analog circuitry

Designed vertical, horizontal syncing circuits, high speed buffers, filters using opamps

Utilized current feedback operational amplifiers to achieve high bandwidth

Designed self-running and auto-syncing oscillators using 555 timers

Prototyped circuit very cleanly to avoid noise at high frequencies, output displayed on CRT scope
Analog signal delay line, Personal Project
Dec 2014

Designed a digitally implemented analog delay based around a serial SRAM and a dsPIC33

Utilized SPI communication to access a 1MBIT memory chip where a buffer was implemented

Simulated analog portion of the circuit in LTSpice, PCB was designed in Altium and etched at home

Synchronized operation of DAC/ADC/Memory read/writes to achieve proper operation

Laser Scanner, Personal Project
Dec 2013

Successfully integrated hardware/software design ranging from DC motor controllers, laser drivers,
laser transducers and position tracking using a meticulous design approach

Demonstrated system design knowledge, assembling device involved a lot of different wires,
components and interconnections, final product was mechanically sound

Used various power tools putting project together, showing mechanical skills

Designed device such that it was capable of producing discernible images and creating .BMP files
Tremlolo Guitar Effect Pedal, Personal Project

Successfully designed, simulated and prototyped a tremlolo guitar pedal

Successfully implemented a linear regulator to provide +/- rails from a positive supply

Achieved low noise realization by using correct decoupling capacitors and circuit layout

Dec 2013

Work Experience
asd (Research Assistant)

asd (Research and Development)

2013(Apr - Aug)

Learned about power supply topologies, MOSFETs, IGBTs and troubleshooting circuits
Tested products for efficiency, operating temperatures and waveforms using an extensive set of lab equipment
Designed prototypes for senior engineers such as inrush and fan control circuits
Machined devices such as a 2kW DC load and various enclosures using drills, saws and other tools
Soldering components ranging from very sensitive SMDs to transformers onto large copper rails
Successfully modified expensive Military Power Converters through soldering
Captured Schematics using Altium, conducted various LTspice simulations

asd (Software Programmer)

2014(Apr - Aug)

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

2012(Sep - Dec)

Programmed VBA scripts for Excel to fill in spreadsheets using imported data from Microsoft Outlook
Managed a large inventory of very important items without losing anything by being detail oriented
Used VBA to program a database to keep track of important documents

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