Résumé

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Coursework so far includes ECE 220 Computer Systems and Programming, ECE 120 Introduction to Computing, ECE 110 Introduction to Electronics, electromagnetism, differential equations, and discrete mathematics.

C++, ESP-IDF, LVGL, ESP32-P4, REST APIs

• Building an embedded weather terminal on a Waveshare ESP32-P4 that displays live METAR field conditions and VFR or IFR flight categories at a glance for pilots, sourced from the aviationweather.gov API.
• Writing the firmware in C++ on the ESP-IDF toolchain, designing the data model that moves parsed reports from the network layer to the display, and learning LVGL to build the interface.

ECE 120, Xilinx Vivado, TTL

• Designed an eight state finite state machine for a vending machine controller restricted to NAND, NOR, and NOT gates, deriving the logic with Karnaugh maps and verifying the design in Xilinx Vivado with a SystemVerilog testbench.
• Implemented the controller on a breadboard with TTL logic ICs, wiring an asynchronous reset and debugging with LEDs until it drove a physical vending machine prototype over a ribbon cable interface.

Astro, HTML and CSS, Git, Cloudflare Pages

• Building a personal site in Astro that presents my engineering projects and flight training.
• Deploying through Cloudflare Pages with automatic rebuilds on every push to the GitHub repository.

GNC , Winston-Salem, NC

• Ran the store independently, handling opening and closing, register operation, and daily cash reconciliation.
• Drove membership and loyalty program sales while advising customers across the store's full supplement line, and processed incoming shipments against packing lists to maintain the sales floor.

Publix Super Markets , Winston-Salem, NC

• Restocked and merchandised inventory across multiple departments in a fast paced, high volume store.

Phi Gamma Delta

• Lead chapter recruitment, organising rush events and coordinating outreach to prospective members.

IEEE Student Chapter and SIGARCH

• Attend hands-on workshops in soldering, circuit design, and ASIC design, plus technical talks on logic gates, pipelining, and cache design.

Scouting America

• Designed and led a service project building planter benches for the Forsyth County Humane Society, managing budget and materials sourcing for a team of over 30 volunteers.
• Served as Troop Senior Patrol Leader, planning events and mentoring younger scouts.

In progress

• Logged over 70 hours in Cessna 172s, including solo cross country and night flights.
• Operating under FAA procedures and ATC radio communication while managing checklists and navigation.