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Research Technician (Ref:# 05020104)

Status: Position is Filled

Duties:

Developed systems to perform experiments and collect data.

Designed electronic hardware for infrared detection and RFID tracking.

Fabricated printed circuit boards by exposing photo-sensitized boards, chemical etching, and hand soldering.

Wrote software responsible for hardware management, data logging and analysis, and emulating experimental results using statistical models.

Performed cost analysis, budget tracking, and project management.

Qualifications:

Algorithm design: Utilized binary arithmetic to isolate signal source. Condensed rapid repetitive entries and sorted nested data in real-time. Managed multiple timing charts using a single timer. Efficiently calculated, sorted and ranked angles. Reduced hard disk usage. Increased simulation speed 3000 fold.

Error reduction: Isolated hardware limitations that triggered false readings. Programmed software to monitor unlikely conditions and minimize data loss.

Multithreading: Integrated 16 RFID readers with infrared activators. Controlled each reader independently using ActiveX classes. Utilized multithreading to maximize hardware performance.

GUI Interface: Displayed status of each flower/feeder/RFID reader using color coded icons. Simplified access to adjustable aspects hardware.

Circuit Fabrication: Coupled photo-transistors and infrared diodes, boosted signal strength with BJT amplifiers. PCB design, chemical etching, and soldering. Budget tracking, cost forecasting, and time management.

Research Assistant (Ref:# 05010601)

Status: Position is Filled

Created a simulator in MATLAB to model analog and digital circuits. Adapted a newly developed algorithm to calculated electrical properties of a circuit. Tested over 40 circuit configurations of various complexities.

Duties:

Created software to simulate analog and digital circuits.

Adapted newly developed algorithms to calculated electrical properties of a circuit.

Tested over 40 circuit configurations of various complexities.

Converted all software to C, resulting in a 300 time increase in simulation speed.

Qualifications:

Increased Performance: Built net-list parser to reduce setup time. Converted all programs into C, resulting in a 300 fold increase in simulation speed.

Algorithm Design: Utilized Jacobian technique and LU Decomposition to minimize computation times. Initialized networks with default values for faster convergence.

Reverse Engineering: Examined pSpice and hSpice source code. Isolated problems with transistor models. Developed simplified routines increasing accuracy of simulation.

Report Writing: Wrote formal report outlining effectiveness of new technique.