Life and Accident & Sickness Advisor at Neilson Financial Service | Primerica | American Income Life – Paz Organization (2024-01 – 2025-02)
- Trained under various Managing General Agents to sell various types of Life Insurance (incl. Term, and Age-Based), averaging Annual Cumulative Premiums of 1250+/yr
- Outperformed senior advisors in my training cohort, by maintaining a net positive Sales Variance, making 1-2 sales per day, even during holiday season
Electrical Engineering Designer and Validation Intern at Toronto Transit Commission – Rails Engineering Dept. (2021-06 – 2022-05)
- Utilized Root Cause Analysis and circuit measurement techniques to debug and design Train Control Unit's Brake Controller schematics using AutoCAD and/or MicroStation for the Maintenance and Repair Dept. that will be serviced on the Toronto Rocket train on Line 1, thereby increasing maintenance uptime by 90%+
- Determined and verified safety criteria and DRC of designs to meet rules and regulations for transit infrastructure design, resulting in reviews of oversight for over 100+ trains using testing procedures
- Performed subsystem and system level tests for the Technical Review Boards or Groups of the Maintenance & Repair Dept. to facilitate any issues with existing electronics or drafted hardware designs
- Designed electrical layouts based on existing architecture and deign goals, and presented NPIs (New Project Introductions) for DFM/DFA (Design For Manufacturing/Design For Assembly) of auxiliary systems and critical assembly designs
- Schematics, Bill Of Materials (BOMs), and layouts all followed existing protocol standards for design (e.g., IEC, IEEE)
- Contacted directly with contractors (e.g., ALSTOM) to debrief upcoming design implementations and how to best service them at different work stations across the Downtown Core of Toronto, ON
- Accumulated and conducted detailed calculations on various primary and auxiliary electrical systems of the Toronto Rocket, auditing 2 trains/hr, following compliance standards
- Developed fundamental knowledge for various multi-disciplinary fields during placement: Project Management, Electrical and Pneumatic Systems, Product Development, Stakeholder Deliberation, RAMS Analysis, PCB Fabrication
Hardware Engineer Co-Director at IEEE – University of Toronto Chapter (2019-09 – 2023-06)
- Led various hardware, and software workshops throughout the semesters, all 6 of which received 5-star ratings
- Hardware-Related: PCB design and power management; Altium Designer Beginner's Guide; Arduino
- Software-Related: BIOS/bootup debugging + Python; SQL Databases; ReactJS
- Organized and oversaw nation-wide MLH affiliated hackathon events, NewHacks and MakeUofT, boasting over 1000+ RSVPs
- Designed technical projects to develop technical skills among associates and directors:
- Temperature Detection Circuit: ESP32, DHT22 Temperature Sensor, Firebase cloud interfacing for real-time data transmission
- Telepresence Robot: Raspberry Pi + Optical Camera, Mini Onboard Screen, DC motors (with calculations made in advance)
- Hardware Inventory Website: Django (Python Framework) interfacing with HTML&CSS styling, from an inventory excel sheet
- Performed DFM and DMA analysis across different associates for internal technical projects
Electrical Design Engineer (Formerly Science Team Junior Lead) at RSX (Robotics for Space Exploration) (2019-07 – 2023-06)
- Performed Various Verification Tests for both demonstration and international rover competitions for the various electro-mechanical and embedded-software systems:
- Test Plans, Acceptance Test Procedures, First Article Inspections, Design Verification Tests, configuration and version control (e.g, Turtoise), footprint calculations (e.g., Saturn PCB Toolkit), Connectivity, Grounding, Wireless connectivity, Communications Protocol (e.g, I2C, UART), Unit Tests for specific physical hardware circuits
- Researched and presented speculation of ET life on Mars through our rover design and implementation at the Ontario Rover Challenge (2019), winning Top 5 of all competitors
- Assembled and soldered a Wireless Emergency Stop Button using a Zigbee Xbee 3 module on a fabricated PCB via Altium Designer, for 1km < RANGE < 2 km
- Crimped, screwed, drilled, wired, and tested different cables/signal wires and mechanisms on various rover iterations, across 2 rovers
- Facilitated and modelling in the development of the Drill + Soil Entrapment Mechanisms via Embedded Systems Programming in Arduino IDE, 3D Mechanical modelling in SolidWorks, and soldering of discrete electronic circuits for the Servo Motors
