Career
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Education / 4-H Extension /Alliant Energy, May 2019 – Present
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Senior Design I, Spring 2019 and Fall 2020
LD ST 270 ECSEL-WiSE Peer Mentor, August – December 2018
• Facilitated discussions surrounding inclusiveness and diversity as it relates to engineering students in ECpE.
• Managed and organized community service-learning by helping students lead STEM based activities with the Boys and Girls Club of Story County.
EE 490 (ECSEL) Peer Mentor, January – May 2018
• Held office hours for ECSEL scholars to discuss and study courses such as PHYS 221, EE 201, EE 230, EE 224.
• Organized a community service-learning session through The Road Less Traveled (TRLT) combining art and electronics by building paper circuits.
EE 185 Mentor/Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant, August 2016 – Present
Clark County Department of Aviation, Las Vegas, Nevada
Student Engineer, July 2014 – June 2015
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Education Specialist, March 2012 – June 2012
United States Navy, USS Rushmore (LSD-47), San Diego, California
Information Systems Technician, June 2006 – June 2010
Graduate Research Assistant, School of Education / 4-H Extension /Alliant Energy, May 2019 – Present
- Helped expand STEM opportunities for youth across the state through co-designing, piloting, evaluating, and implementing a new program, InventSTEM, for youth grades 4-12.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Senior Design I, Spring 2019 and Fall 2020
- Facilitated individual and team dynamics, and graded students’ work.
LD ST 270 ECSEL-WiSE Peer Mentor, August – December 2018
• Facilitated discussions surrounding inclusiveness and diversity as it relates to engineering students in ECpE.
• Managed and organized community service-learning by helping students lead STEM based activities with the Boys and Girls Club of Story County.
EE 490 (ECSEL) Peer Mentor, January – May 2018
• Held office hours for ECSEL scholars to discuss and study courses such as PHYS 221, EE 201, EE 230, EE 224.
• Organized a community service-learning session through The Road Less Traveled (TRLT) combining art and electronics by building paper circuits.
EE 185 Mentor/Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant, August 2016 – Present
- Investigated antenna communications efficiency for targeted drone applications
- Studied and assessed progress of incoming EE students for critical thinking skills through personal reflections
- Organized lab experiments to help guide students through electrical engineering fundamentals such as programming and circuits through TI Launchpads and Arduinos
Clark County Department of Aviation, Las Vegas, Nevada
Student Engineer, July 2014 – June 2015
- Studied Routing and Switching, the OSI model, RAID, Active Directory, and inventory of VMs under the direction of the Network and Server teams
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Education Specialist, March 2012 – June 2012
- Supported research and development of science-based educational project targeting grades 4-6, with the ability to work in remote and on-site environments via telecommunications
United States Navy, USS Rushmore (LSD-47), San Diego, California
Information Systems Technician, June 2006 – June 2010
- Watch Supervisor – managed watch personnel, troubleshooting and maintaining the functionality of communications circuits for ship-to- ship, ship-to- shore, and ship-to- air platforms
- Top Secret/SCI clearance for handling cryptographic equipment and classified documents