HARDWARE ENGINEERING & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Canadian citizen that is willing to relocate to anywhere in the U.S. through the hassle-free TN Visa that I can apply for at the U.S. Border.
Electrical Engineer new graduate with experience in Electronic Design, Mechanical Design, 3D Printing, and Software Development (Web).
Had 2+ years experience in robotics and artificial intelligence in both software and hardware projects.
Project management experience with award winning university projects and co-founding two early stage start up company.
Product development through customer/client relationship by applying the lean startup method.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feel Three - Montreal, QC - March 2015 to Present
An early-stage startup consisting of 4 cofounders working on building an affordable motion simulator for Virtual Reality headsets. www.feelthree.com
Cofounder
Designed schematics for sphere and base of the motion simulator using Altium Designer.
Improved the business development side of the startup by interviewing 30+ potential customers, providing a validation for the product market fit of the business model.
Prototyped a scale model of the proposed design using off the shelf electronic development boards that were incorporated for the proposed PCB design.
Terasofya - Montreal, QC - August 2014 to February 2015
An early-stage startup consisting of 5 employees, specializing in Natural Language Processing technology in relation to news reports. It focuses on branches of text summarization and sentimental analysis using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. www.terasofya.com
Cofounder
Decreased application development by 25% (1 week before release) by interviewing 100 potential customers about application prototype for feedback using wireframing tools.
Increased team productivity by 50% (2 weeks early release) by switching from waterfall method to SCRUM which helped the team focus on essential product features.
Improved UI/UX by studying competition and developing mobile-friendly front-end, saving 10% of product budget.
Varcity 515 - Montreal, QC - April 2014 to March 2015
Varcity 515 is a private student housing company offering luxurious services and amenities to international students living in Montreal.
Customer Service Representative
Increased lease signing and move in by 8% ($336k in company projected revenue) by giving exclusive tours and following up by phone and e-mail with potential customers.
Improved apartment inventory fulfillment by focusing on essential customer requirements and delivering requests, improving customer satisfaction.
PROJECTS
Gump (A Voice-Commanded Bipedal Robot) - Montreal, QC - August 2013 to April 2014
Gump was built by a team of four to fulfill our Graduation requirement in Engineering by designing and testing a Capstone Project as specified by Concordia University. Gump is a bipedal robot, the first of its kind at our university, being able to move according to voice commands.
Hardware Lead
Saved 21% of team budget ($190.00) by designing bipedal legs on Solidworks and manufacturing them through 3D-Printing and laser-cutting.
Successfully received 180% increase on project budget ($500.00) by negotiating sponsorship agreements with third parties.
Designed the entire electronic schematics for two PCBs using KiCad to allow autonomy via wireless communication between user and robot.
Awards and recognition include First Place in the Project Design Awards for the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, being feature story in the Engineering News Magazine under the headline "Students Prototyping their Future”, and being invited to Gump at the Exposcience Fair to about 1,400 attendants.
SIMurai (A Sumo-Robot) - Montreal, QC - January 2013 to April 2013
Led a team of five to work on a sumo-robot for a competition at the Engineering Faculty of Concordia University. Worked with constraints including $200 overall budget and short time limit while effectively managing teams time slots to finally create a final design.
Team Lead
Successfully defended schematic design for essential robot features, receiving final approval from Engineer in Residence.
Improved algorithm for robot behaviour in collaboration with team programmers by adapting IR sensors at specific angles to obtain maximum detection parameters.
Acquired 100% in leadership qualities and project management skills from peer and supervisor evaluation reviews.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR
District 3 Innovation Center - Montreal, QC - September 2014 to December 2014
Lead by Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad trained instructors; the Launch Your Startup Program draws on the latest “lean startup” thinking in Silicon Valley and focuses on customer development and minimizing wasted effort. Relevant for innovators, lean approach relies on validated learning, experimentation, short product development cy...
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