I am a test engineer on the Wireless Connectivity team. I spend my days running validation tests on the TCP module that connects GM cars to the cell network, to make sure features like OnStar calls or the car's wifi hotspot work as intended. I often find problems with the module itself, in code or hardware, with the cell network (ours was AT&T), with other modules inside the car, or with the data flow design for GM services, and report them to the relevant teams for fixing. Then once a patch is made, I retest and reverify. I often work with suppliers to troubleshoot issues, mainly LG.

Hardware Troubleshooting
Creating and Maintaining Documentation

Qualcomm eXtensible Diagnostic Manager
TeraTerm
MultiCOMM
RobotFramework
Custom GM Softare such as VehicleSpy and RMM Tool KiCad
Python
Linux Shell Scripting

Power Supply Design
Car Radio via KT0803L Chip and DFPlayer Engineering Portfolio Website

The Complete Odes by Pindar trans. Anthony Verity
The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by William Chambers
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Beaudelaire

My first year at GM was spent as a D.R.E., in charge of the design and production of my part, which was the headliner on the 2024 electric Equinox. The headliner is the felt material on the ceiling of your car's interior (actually its a multilayered pressed plastic composite material, mostly Thermoform). I was responsible for ensuring that my headliner was produced to GM quality, had no major safety concerns (the US DOT regulates a head impact area by the sun visor between the headliner and sheet metal roof in the event of a crash), and that enough parts made it onto the production line in time for Start of Regular Production for over a million vehicles.

Communicating with Suppliers
HTML, CSS, & Javascript
C

Teamcenter
Microsoft Suite including Excel, Powerpoint, Word, and OneNote.

Homelab Media Server

Paideia by Werner Jaeger
Early Greek Lyric Poetry trans. David Mulroy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Signals and Systems
Semiconductor Devices
Energy Conversion
Database Design & Management
Random Signals and Noise
Digital Data Communications
Wireless Communication Systems (RF Comm. Fundamentals)

Theta Chi Fraternity

The Celtic Realms by Miles Dillon
Histories by Herodotus
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: An Edition of Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu trans. Colin Ireland
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

This was my first introduction to electrical engineering in industry, and forever cemented me as an RF specialist (as opposed to power, controls, etc.). I got to design a component from scratch using low-loss components that made its way to the radar on an F-16 fighter jet through our contractor, L3-Harris. I also got to design parts of a new commercial cell antenna that would be deployed in Montana and overseas at multiple new cell sites.

Soldering
RF Circuit Impedance Analysis
Customer Outreach
Circuit Design
Component Design & Verification

Theta Chi Fraternity

Dune by Frank Herbert

My high school years. I don't look back on high school fondly, but I greatly enjoyed the technical projects I was allowed to do.

Java
C++ and C#
Arduino
AutoCAD
Rhino
SolidWorks

Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. H. Liddell Hart
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietasche
The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, and the Silmarillion by Tolkien
Tales from the Perilous Realm: Roverandom and Other Classic Faery Stories by Tolkien