Experience

Work, Education, and Design

Where I've worked

April 2026 — Present · Fullerton, CA
Radar Software Engineer II
RTX (Raytheon)
  • Contributed to the design and implementation of algorithms using proprietary internal tools.
  • Refactored a legacy codebase to improve readability and maintainability.
Radar SoftwareAlgorithmsRefactoring
April 2023 — April 2026 · Tucson, AZ
Signal Processing Engineer I
RTX (Raytheon)
  • Designed and implemented radar signal processing algorithms in C++, analyzed the resulting system changes against existing software, and presented results demonstrating performance improvements.
  • Implemented and tested research papers in prototype system design for angle estimation.
  • Developed and tested a version of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis in Python, reproducing results verified in the original paper.
  • Implemented LSTMs in MATLAB and completed data analysis in Python for time-series data.
C++PythonMATLABRadar DSPMachine Learning
June 2021 — December 2022 · San Diego, CA
Electrical Design Engineer
Agnetix — started as Sensor Development Intern, hired full-time
  • PCB design for sensor boards in Altium, with enclosure design in SolidWorks and Onshape.
  • Sensor development across soil, temperature, humidity, light, airflow and lidar.
AltiumSolidWorksOnshapeSensors
Summers, June 2016 — August 2020 · Anaheim, CA
Technical Assistant
RF Precision Cables
  • Assured quality control through testing procedures following fabrication and testing of RF cables.
RFTest & QC

Education

Completed December 2025

M.S. Electrical Engineering — Machine Learning Depth

University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ

  • Radar Signal Processing — MATLAB project processing a radar data cube.
  • Quantum Sensing & Quantum Machine Learning — quantum neural nets combined with deep neural networks to tackle an image classification problem.
  • AI/ML Neural Networks — recurrent networks, transformer networks, CNNs and DNNs.
  • SDR using PLUTO+ — CW radar project collecting radar data and forming range-Doppler maps.
Completed June 2022

B.S. Electrical Engineering — Machine Learning Depth

University of California, San Diego · La Jolla, CA

EIT Certificate, 2023 COSMOS Program Assistant

Tools & skills

Languages

C++CPythonMATLAB

Technologies

LinuxDockerMySQLGitBashArduinoRaspberry PiPIC32

Design

Altium DesignerSolidWorksOnshapeMPLAB IDEQuartus Prime

Bench

OscilloscopeSpectrum AnalyzerMultimeterSolderingBreadboarding

Sensor hardware & PCB design

Board and enclosure work from the Agnetix sensor program, plus ongoing Altium practice.

Soil sensor printed circuit board
Soil sensor boardMulti-layer PCB designed in Altium.
Soil sensor enclosure CAD model
Enclosure, in CADHousing modelled in Onshape.
3D-printed soil sensor enclosure
Enclosure, printedSame part off the printer, ready to fit.
Altium schematic capture
Schematic captureAltium Designer.
Altium PCB layout
Board layoutThe same design routed.

Digital design & FPGA

SystemVerilog and RTL work in Quartus Prime, including a Bitcoin mining core.

Post-mapping schematic of a Bitcoin mining algorithm
Bitcoin miner — post-mapping schematicSynthesized in Quartus Prime.
Simulation waveform of the Bitcoin mining algorithm
Bitcoin miner — simulationWaveform verification of the same core.
UART register transfer level diagram
UARTRTL view.
Integer multiplier register transfer level diagram
Integer multiplierRTL view.

Fabrication & prototyping

Machines I'm trained on and run myself — most parts on this page came off one of them.

LulzBot Taz 5 3D printer
LulzBot Taz 5Trained at UC San Diego.
LulzBot Taz Mini 3D printer
LulzBot Taz MiniTrained at UC San Diego.
Creality Ender 3 Pro 3D printer
Creality Ender 3 ProOperated at home.
Creality Ender 3 S1 3D printer
Creality Ender 3 S1Operated at home.
100 watt CO2 laser cutter
100 W CO2 laser cutter, 4×3 ftOne of several laser cutters I'm cleared to operate.

Design for fabrication

Inkscape vector work, cut in acrylic for IEEE Quarter Projects.

Inkscape vector design for the ForgettaBoutIt enclosure
Vector sourceDrawn in Inkscape.
Laser-cut acrylic ForgettaBoutIt enclosure
Cut in acrylicThe same file, on the laser.
Three-piece Inkscape design for IEEE Quarter Project
Three-piece assemblyVector source.
Three-piece acrylic laser-cut assembly
Three-piece assemblyCut and assembled.
ENLIGHTEN laser-cut panel
ENLIGHTENTeam panel for the automated light switch project.
Laser-cut robot team nameplate
Team nameplateCut for the line-following robot build.