Experience

• The University of Texas at San Antonio

  Research Assistant

  -Developed two user manuals used by 10+ higher level students – user manuals provided instruction required to function the Unmanned Ground and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles used by the laboratory
  -Studied Unmanned Ground and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle dynamics
  -Participated in the Perseus III DoD Demonstration investigating unknown UAV capabilities and new methods for disrupting an invading vehicle
  -Executed Hand Gesture Controlled Drones project – UAV performs task/movement as a response to a user’s hand gesture
  

• Texas A&M University

  Graduate Research Assistant

  -Conducted data analytics and artificial intelligence research
  -Lead data analytics and anomaly detection research for Large Scale Data Analytics for Air Conditioning Systems Project – funded by Trane (Ingersoll Rand Inc.)
  -Contributed to the development of a novel operating mode detection algorithm for air conditioning systems
  -Developed novel change-point detection scheme to be used for detecting change in air conditioning system behaviors
  -Applied autoregressive forecasting methods to analyze faulty system behaviors
  -Assisted with publication submission reviews, grading exams, proposal writing, and giving course lectures
  

• Texas A&M University

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  CSCE 431: Software Engineering
  
  CSCE 121: Intro to Programming Design and Concepts
  - C++ Programming Language

• Air Force Research Laboratory

  Electrical Engineer

  -Solved technical research problems relevant to the Command and Control mission
  -Co-primary investigator to an awarded Entrepreneurial Research Funding initiative proposal for an interface framework which will help link simulator environments to learning algorithms
  -Organized and managed a directorate-wide Machine Learning Readings and Discussions Group created to enlighten fellow researchers of current state of the art learning methods
  -Helped review machine learning relevant proposals submitted in response to a Broad Agency Announcement for a federal contract opportunity
  -Through the Science and Engineering Palace Acquire Program, I was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to pursue a technical Master of Science/Engineering degree
  -Elected as a Junior Force Council Member who participated in voting upon the Junior Force group’s activity (i.e. Group Expenses, Federal Employee professional development, STEM activities, professional networking, volunteer activities, fundraising, social events)
  

• Air Force Civilian Service

  Electrical Engineering Student Intern

  -Organized and prepared equipment used by 16 Senior Executive Service personnel during Senior Development Team meetings
  -Developed first ever automated forms to be used by 290+ Palace Acquire Interns
  -Intern responsible for organizing and performing data analysis for 4,000+ resumes for the United States Air Force Civilian Science and Engineering Career Field Team
  -Converted archaic data to an organized database used by 10+ personnel to perform daily duties
  

• H-E-B, Inc.

  Cashier

  -Handled multiple tasks while assisting customers with point of sale transactions and other related services