Started a company to invest in real estate while not working in a full time engineering role. As the owner I perform all necessary aspects of the business including managing business financial resources, maintaining real estate properties, negotiating and hiring contractors, conducting marketing, financial analysis and reporting.

I joined the Xeon server team as a software engineer and started working on tooling for the Larrabee microarchitecture where my area of focus was cache coherency. My team leveraged the Linux kernel to create an execution environment that allows arbitrary assembly algorithms to be loaded and stress run directly on hardware. This gave precision to the tests so that we could target edge cases of the cache geometry on the chip. The environment was a standard GNU toolchain with the codebase in c and c++ a makefile build system and perl scripts to automate various processes.

My first full time position after graduating was a member of the internal rotation leadership program at Intel. This 1 year leadership program gave me the opportunity to quickly sample different roles within the company. The roles included non engineering positions such as technical marketing where I supported the engineering team with product launches demos and other tasks such as technical documentation releases. Other roles I had the opportunity to try were engineering roles within analog circuit design teams and new silicon testing.

Paid marketing role that started after the end of the summer internship. I managed brand representation for the Core2 Duo processors and continued in this role for the remaining time of my undergraduate studies. This was a great opportunity to become knowledgable about the Core2 line of processors and share that with others. I had the responsibility of building relationships with 3rd party retailers delivering product samples for them, designing in-store demos and providing marketing literature. An important part of the role was to make sure that retail employees had sufficient product information for consumers and in this way drive sales through technical knowledge.

Summer paid internship at Intel in Phoenix Arizona. During this internship I was introduced to the processes within the silicon industry. During the internship I learned from engineers how to design regression testing for multimedia chipsets. The role involved pre and post silicon testing. I also helped them design a system to do data post processing that would eliminate noise and yield a more actionable test result. After this internship Intel went on to offer me a full time position upon graduation.

First paid summer internship was at Honeywell Inc located in Phoenix Arizona. During this time I was introduced to the on-board computing systems for some models of military helicopters. My assignment was to write a series of programs in c that would compile for those platforms and would collect data from on-board devices. Honeywell went on to offer me a full time position after graduation.

While attending the University of Arizona full time, I worked part time as the Network and Systems Administrator for the Department of Arid Land Studies. During this time I was responsible for the administration of two computer labs and the offices of the department faculty. One of the labs was an onsite student computer lab and the other was a mobile lab for field studies. The onsite computer lab was a typical computer lab of that time, composed of around 20 student workstations on non uniform hardware running various operating systems. The mobile lab was composed of around 20 laptops with additional peripherals for data collection and storage for the field. In addition to the labs I was also responsible for the faculty’s workstations, the University sub-network for the department including firewalls and other networking appliances.