(More) About Me

As a little more background on me, here's what my friend coined my Casual Vitae!
For more details, click the entry you're interested in.

Learn:
2012 - 2014	Purdue University, MS Electrical and Computer Engineering My studies at Purdue focused on Computer Architecture. My master's thesis focused on GPU design, analyzing the memory patterns of GPGPU applications to inform possible microarchitectural techniques.
2008 - 2012	University at Buffalo, BS Computer Engineering, BA Mathematics​ At Buffalo, my favorite classes revolved around computer design rather than pure software engineering. This interest is what led me to study computer architecture at Purdue.

Work:
2016 - 2018	AMD, Senior Design Engineer, Floating Point Verification At AMD, I worked on the floating point verification (FP) team. In short, I helped write and run software that tested our designs for our floating point unit (this is the unit that does decimal math, among other things). In practice, I did a lot of work interfacing with other teams to ensure our different units were interacting with each other properly. This included debugging failures both within the FP and the other interfacing units.
2014 - 2015	AMD, Design Engineer 2, Floating Point Verification See description for my Senior Design Engineer position above!
2013	AMD, Co-Op Engineer, Floating Point Verification As a co-op engineer at AMD, I worked to help test and shape our internal implementation of the ARM ISA. This involved running tests, debugging implementation issues, and identifying potential performance improvements to our current design.

Volunteer:
2014 - 2015	Engineers for a Sustainable World, Deputy Director As the Deputy Director at ESW, I oversaw our five internal departments, ran executive committee meetings, and helped facilitate interdepartmental collaboration. Another major component of my work was leading our Leadership Team recruitment, including reaching out to potential candidates and organizing and running interviews.
2013 - 2014	Engineers for a Sustainable World, Chapter Relations Coordinator In my role as Chapter Relations Coordinator, I was responsible for overseeing the Midwestern region of collegiate chapters. This included developing relationships with chapter leaders and providing resources and advice to help their chapters grow and thrive. I also took the initiative to head up a merchandising effort to provide various ESW items to students, such as graduation stoles.

Play:
2013 - present	Mopeds, Hobbyist Mechanic and Rider I caught the moped bug when interning at AMD. My roommates of the time both had mopeds, and a couple months in I finally rode one. Since then, I've acquired numerous mopeds, worked on them, and learned a ton about the mechanical world!
2015 - present	Mountain Biking, Rookie Rider After living in Colorado for so long, it's only a matter of time before at least some part of the outdoor lifestyle wears off on you. For me, it was biking -- first road and then mountain. I'm still new to the game, but really enjoy it!
2014 - present	Real Tacos, Eater I'm talking real, authentic, Mexican tacos. My good friend, of Mexican and Columbian descent, introduced me to authentic tacos. Since then, I've been hooked! I'm always in search of the best tacos in town.
2008 - present	Guitar, Amateur Jammer I picked up guitar starting right before I went to college, and it's been a consistent on-again off-again hobby. I have a sexy shark-shaped electric and a beautiful blue acoustic!