Work Experience
- Research In Motion, the designer and manufacturer of the BlackBerry smartphone
- 4000 Innovation Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - 2009 May 4 to September 4
- Hardware Systems Design Intern
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Enhanced productivity of engineers and accelerated development cycle of BlackBerry smartphones by reducing time spent on manually characterizing and verifying designs
- Improved and debugged custom test board to regression test BlackBerry smartphones
- Programmed MSP430 microcontroller in C utilizing integrated hardware peripherals
- Set up test station to characterize power consumption of BlackBerry hardware autonomously by liaising with suppliers to specify and procure equipment
- Research In Motion, designer and manufacturer of the BlackBerry smartphone
- 450 March Road
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - 2008 January 7 to April 25
- Power Design Intern
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Shortened development time of BlackBerry smartphones by automating hardware tests
- Collaborated with hardware developers to select tests most beneficial for automation
- Scripted LabVIEW and TestStand sequences to autonomously control test instruments
- Automated power consumption measurements of BlackBerry smartphones to determine battery life under multiple operational modes without human intervention
- TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics
- 4004 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 2007 May 1 to August 31
- Electrical Engineering Intern
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Augmented reliability and efficiency of 500-MeV cyclotron’s 100-kW auxiliary accelerating cavity system by upgrading relay logic control system to networked digital control system
- Captured schematic diagrams for Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission records
- Specified and programmed Modicon Momentum PLC and Pro-face AGP-3600T HMI
- Wrote manual, demonstrated operation, and presented implementation procedure
