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
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
Rated excellent in performance evaluation report by supervisor and colleagues
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
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
Rated excellent in performance evaluation report by supervisor and colleagues
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
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
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