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Senior Residence Advisor

University of British Columbia•  September 2018 - Present

• Manage a university residence hall floor of 80 ethnically diverse undergraduate students. • Enhanced the residence experience by supporting wellness, safety and security, community building and personal development for students in residence. • Facilitated connections between students and the available resources in residence and on campus • Organized and run events to support residents with support of a team. Achieved a 20% increase in participation in residence events • Counseled and supported residents to resolve roommate conflicts. This led to reduced roommate issues in the residence • Enforced University and Residence Life rules and regulations thus reduced on the number of violations by 10%

Embedded Software Developer

Form Athletica•  January 2021 - September 2021

Participated in the design, implementation, and release management of complex software systems in the consumer electronics market. This involves developing firmware systems for ARM-based microcontroller devices in C/C++ - Design and implement embedded software from requirements to production. - Create unit tests to validate new software features. - Work with hardware and product teams to collect software requirements.

Embedded Developer / PCB Designer

University of British Columbia•  May 2020 - December 2020

Worked with Dr. Andre Ivanov to design a device used in Accelerated Life Testing • Designed a Python program for the CPU and an embedded system software in C to run an embedded system • Used Altium designer for Placing and routing, high speed, multilayer Printed circuit boards. Boards are used for experiments • Used Interrupts, watchdog timer, Serial and SPI communication protocols to make the project efficient (Programming done in C) • Controlled elements like ADC’s, oscillators, heaters, voltage regulators, buck boosters on the PCB • Used temperature and magnetic analog sensors to design a device for accelerated life testing • Used Git for version control. • Performed Microcontroller programming to control a PCB designed for Accelerated Life Testing • Created schematics from engineering input

Software Test Intern

Sierra Wireless Inc•  May 2018 - September 2019

• Designed test cases that aided in catching major bugs before releasing products to customers; thus increasing the company’s revenue by 12.6% • Substantially reduced bugs in Sierra products using Sierra Wireless tools and software like HP quality center , JIRA and Confluence, bugs in future products are substantially reduced • Hired, trained and mentored new internship students on how to test and use the new software, the interns could do hands on work 10% faster than projected. • Performed hardware and power management testing on IOT devices using various software and hardware like communication analyzers, signal generators, RF equipment, oscilloscopes • Performed scripting in C# and Python languages to automate tests. Managed to decrease testing time by 20% • Executed manual and automatic tests using black box and grey box testing. Effectively organize testing which saved 48 hours on average