About Me
I live in Garden City ID and in my free time enjoy rafting, making music, gardening, wood working and other hobbies!
I got my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Boise State University, and am halfway towards a Master’s of Engineering in the same field. I have a lot of experience with programming and circuit assembly, and have had a wide variety of internships and jobs utilizing these skills.
Internships
I had an internship at ECCO in 2017 where I worked on developing a light tester for the hardware they built. Using an Arduino and a CAN Shield automobile interface. In working with this hardware I found an error in the CAN Shield code by Seeed Studio and fixed an rtr bit issue, getting my first pull request accepted into the official codebase!
The summer of 2018, following my internship at ECCO, I took an internship at Royal Jay, also local to Boise, Idaho. When I was working there, they were focused on healthcare software to aid in the simplification of healthcare in Idaho and the US more generally.
While I was interning there, I was tasked with finding applications for machine learning in determining healthcare outcomes. I was given anonymized data, and using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning software I ran different regressions to find what trends I could. In the end I gave a presentation showing the outcomes of the research and regressions and discussed potential applications of my findings.
In the summer of 2022 I had the opportunity to work at Idah Power. The opportunity was incredible, and I learned and feel I contributed to the Methods & Materials team I was assigned to. My goal was to look at the change in power consumption that households in the Boise area had from the purchase date of the EV and how that impacted the local transformer. Using this data, I was able to create projections for when different transformers would be unable to carry the power load the EVs had on the electrical grid.
Programming
I am also a capable programmer, with a variety of languages, with various applications at my disposal. I have experience using REST API’s and writing web servers. I have written firmware for testing purposes, and have machine learning experience that allows me to accomplish nearly any task given to me.
I know the following languages
- Python
- Go
- Java
- C++
- C
- Javascript
Python and Go being my go to languages for web servers and REST applications, as well as back end uses such as with a Raspberry Pi.
An example of my programming ability can be found here on Github. This is a project I wrote for a project challenge, I and a group of friends did at Colorado School of Mines. There are three different programs using three different languages, that use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the go between to create a website that displays a live temperature reading from Raspberry Pi.