My adventure into electrical power systems began when I was 10, helping my grandfather install a new battery in our small boat. He accidentally connected the two terminals with a wrench and we were both showered in sparks, to my surprise but not at all to his. After tinkering with computers and cars in high school, building a solar cell from scratch in college, and 6 years startng a solar technology company -- I still don't know what he was thinking. But it got me thinking.
'The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you' - Neil Degrasse Tyson
'How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives' - Anne Dillon
Notable Courses: Electric Power Systems I & II, Smart Grid Components, Planning and Operation of Distribution Systems, Network Protection and Automation, Electricity Markets, Communication Systems
Thesis: Deep learning networks for PV power nowcasting (PI Sonia Leva, Solar Tech Lab)
Notable Courses: Optimization, Numerical Methods in Computation, Electromagnetic
Fields and Waves, Energy Conversion, Microcontrollers, Intermediate Electrical Circuits
Called the “fifth year,” the B.E. is an ABET accredited degree that first requires a B.A.
Notable Courses: Semiconductor Theory, Science of Materials, Distributed Systems and Fields, Engineering Design and Methodology, Power Electronics, Modern Control Theory, Classical Control Theory, Analog and Linear Devices, Discrete Systems
Fourth employee and only electrical engineer of startup solar technology company
· Lead designer on dual-axis PV tracking controller and remote communication
· Manufacturing and maintenance of controller and PV tracker
· Technology research and specification - normal, bifacial, and concentrating PV panels; inverters and module level electronics
· Design of hundreds of 4 kW residential and three 150 kW PV installs
· National Electric Code compliance
· PCB CAD and fabrication
· C/C++
· Python
· Tensorflow, Keras
· MATLAB
· DIGsilent PowerFactory
· Soldering
· Oscilloscope operation
· MS Office, MS Online, Google Docs
· Native language: English
· Linux systems
· Solidworks
· PowerWorld
· HOMER
· NREL System Advisor Model
· Machining and hand tools
· Italian, Spanish
· Backcountry skiing
· Rock climbing
· Bike packing, gravel and road cycling, mountain biking
· Quilting
· Home made gluten free goodies
· Audiobooks
· Photography