About Me
Los Angeles born and raised, I am a proud product of the LA Unified School District. While at Warren High school, I was first introduced to engineering through the Metropolitan Water Solar Boat competition and the American Society of Civil Engineering popsicle bridge competition thanks to Glenn Yamasaki. I started at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the age of 19 as a academic part time in the Signal Processing and Communication Research Group while getting my degrees at Cal Poly. It was a great experience to be able to align my academic courses to the work I was doing at JPL along with my interests.
Early in my career I was fortunate to deploy a prototype high rate receiver and build a Ka-2 downlink package for the Deep Space Network to test the receiver with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter downlink. The package itself is still used for lunar noise measurements at the DSN. The early part of my career was spent focused on FPGA firmware and software development for a Mars Proximity Radio, LDPC decoders, optical communication, software defined receivers and mixed signal board design.
Early in my career I was fortunate to deploy a prototype high rate receiver and build a Ka-2 downlink package for the Deep Space Network to test the receiver with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter downlink. The package itself is still used for lunar noise measurements at the DSN. The early part of my career was spent focused on FPGA firmware and software development for a Mars Proximity Radio, LDPC decoders, optical communication, software defined receivers and mixed signal board design.
I received my Bachelors in Electrical & Computer engineering specializing in signal processing & digital systems architecture from Cal Poly Pomona. I then received my Masters in Electrical Engineering from UCLA specializing in adaptive signal processing & statistical estimation theory. For my keystone team project at Cal Poly we built a fully autonomous robot capable of navigating from point A to B while evaluating threats along the way. The robot used computer vision for threat assessment, GPS and local sensors for navigation, FPGAs for motor & servo control, a microcontroller for vision processing and wireless communication to the base station.
For the next phase of my career, I lead the technology infusion effort of a high rate receiver and LDPC decoder to support support Artemis Lunar Gateway at the Deep Space Network which involved architecting a new digital systems to meet the demand of current and future missions. Overall, a modernization of the DSN.
I then joined the Autonomous Systems Division at JPL. In my current role as the technical group supervisor for Avionics System Engineering, my group is responsible for providing Avionics Systems Engineering and Integration & Test of spacecraft electronics and software systems to support JPL's mission. Composed of 60+ of the most knowledgeable and talented engineers around responsible for leading the avionics system engineering on Psyche, Europa Clipper and Mars Sample Return.
I then joined the Autonomous Systems Division at JPL. In my current role as the technical group supervisor for Avionics System Engineering, my group is responsible for providing Avionics Systems Engineering and Integration & Test of spacecraft electronics and software systems to support JPL's mission. Composed of 60+ of the most knowledgeable and talented engineers around responsible for leading the avionics system engineering on Psyche, Europa Clipper and Mars Sample Return.
Looking forward in my career, the next phase at JPL is to design avionic systems to enable autonomous capabilities in future NASA missions using today's latest system on a chip solutions (Programmable logic, GPUs, Machine Learning, Neural Nets, Microcontrollers). I will be working to not only modernize but advance the state of the art at JPL through tech infusion into our testbeds and process infrastructure.
Overall, I embrace challenges, taking ownership of the most difficult problems as opportunities for personal growth. I possess an unwavering determination and a commitment to making things better and contributing to the greater good.
Overall, I embrace challenges, taking ownership of the most difficult problems as opportunities for personal growth. I possess an unwavering determination and a commitment to making things better and contributing to the greater good.
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Believing in the transformative power of engineering and the limitless opportunities it offers, I am committed to inspiring and fostering innovation within the field. I firmly believe that each endeavor brings us closer to a brighter future for all + it's fun.
#Engineer #Tech #Space #Leader #Finance #RealEstate
Believing in the transformative power of engineering and the limitless opportunities it offers, I am committed to inspiring and fostering innovation within the field. I firmly believe that each endeavor brings us closer to a brighter future for all + it's fun.
