Technical Expert, Embedded Software
December 2022 - Present
Dearborn, Michigan

ADAS Special Projects Group

Founder & Advisor
December 2022 - Present
Rochester, Michigan

Founder & President
May 2021 - December 2022
Rochester, Michigan

Embedded systems consulting, specializing in high-performance systems using hardware acceleration with FPGAs and ASICs

Lecturer
January 2022 - May 2022
Rochester, Michigan

Lecturer for ECE 2700, an FPGA-based digital logic design course

Co-Founder & Principal Engineer
May 2012 - May 2021
Waterford, Michigan

Developed industrial control systems based on Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC running PetaLinux. Designed Xilinx Spartan-3A and Artix-7 FPGA development boards in a compact DIP form-factor, with cross-platform C application for programming SPI NOR flash via USB, and example code in VHDL. Developed embedded C firmware for wireless battery-operated assistive technology device. Designed system architecture for open-source Raspberry Pi-based home audio controller.

Research Engineer
January 2017 - January 2021
Dearborn, Michigan

Part of in-house software team for automated driving. Helped deliver industry-first advanced trailering features for the Ford F-150. Ported computer vision and machine learning algorithms to ARM-based embedded systems-on-chip (SoCs). Spearheaded efforts to accelerate driver assist algorithms through the use of special-purpose hardware accelerators. Set up Docker-based CMake build environment, Jenkins continuous integration system, and QNX operating system image build scripts. Provided support to algorithm research team and production software team. Evaluated and benchmarked candidate SoCs for use in future driver assist modules.

Electrical Engineer
April 2013 - January 2017
Troy, Michigan

Developed FPGA firmware in VHDL and Verilog for high-speed digital signal processing in scanning probe microscope controllers. Designed and implemented special-purpose processors, communication interfaces, FIR and IIR filters, CORDICs and control loops. Extensive experience with FPGA timing analysis and closure. Driver development in Forth. Isolated sources of error in high-speed DAC & ADC interfaces used for piezoelectric control; developed a novel architecture-sympathetic delta-sigma modulator to improve conversion resolution while mitigating non-linearities. Project manager for R&D lab based at Oakland University. Supervised development of several FPGA design projects, including a native Forth soft processor, and a reconfigurable signal routing system.

Developed C firmware and wireless mesh protocol for an assistive technology system to aid the deaf and hard of hearing. Worked with RF engineering team to ensure FCC compliance. Developed C firmware for Bluetooth-based signaling devices, along with accompanying iOS and Android apps. Developed software for production automation and testing. Supervised manufacturing at factory in Shenzhen, China.

Engineering Intern
September 2010 - April 2013
Troy, Michigan

Designed and implemented several FPGA components in VHDL:

Research & Teaching Assistant
January 2010 - April 2013
Rochester, Michigan

Research assistant in the OU High-Performance Embedded Systems Lab. Researched methods of generating special-purpose hardware from stack-based intermediate representations of high-level software languages (e.g. Java-to-VHDL, C#-to-Verilog, etc).

Lab instructor and guest lecturer for microcontroller design course (C and HCS12 assembly with CodeWarrior) and FPGA digital logic and microprocessor design course (VHDL with Xilinx ISE).

M.S. Embedded Systems
Oakland University - Rochester, MI
September 2011 - April 2013

B.S.E. Computer Engineering
Oakland University - Rochester, MI
September 2007 - April 2011