Engineer Computer Science

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Josh Villbrandt

Los Angeles, CA 90007 ****@***********.***

Objective

Seeking to push the boundary of embedded systems. Interests include probabilistic robotics and embedded systems architecture.

Education

M.S. Computer Science (Intelligent Robotics) GPA 3.53 Expected Fall 2012

University of Southern California (USC)

B.S. Aerospace Engineering, minor in Computer Science GPA 3.39 AE, 3.91 CS May 2011

University of Southern California (USC)

Experience

Space Exploration Technologies Avionics Systems Integration Engineer April 2011 - present

Designed a hardware / software solution to emulate Dragon for JSC s ISS integration lab (SDIL)

Designed a vehicle-in-the-loop test rack to simulate spacecraft sensors during mission simulations

Developing controls and displays for a crewed version of the Dragon space capsule

CS 547 August 2011 - December 2011

Developed real-time a Lego pose estimation and classi cation program from 3D point clouds using C++ and ROS

Advanced Tactics, Inc R/D Engineer January 2011 - March 2011

Designed advanced, small-scale technology demonstrators ( xed-wing and rotary vehicles) under a grant from the Marines

Developed a standardized long range (60mi), line-of-sight comm package for realtime video and telemetry for all of our vehicles

AME 441 August 2010 - December 2010

Designed a structural health monitoring system by analyzing vibrations with custom accelerometer chips

Developed a realtime wireless serial communications protocol to connect multiple accelerometers to a LabVIEW base station

USC Aerial Robotics Team Software Team Lead August 2009 - July 2010

Outlined a distributed multi-agent solution for autonomous indoor navigation and lead a team to implement it

Implemented a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm (DP-SLAM) in C++ for quad-rotor helicopters

USC AeroDesign Team Performance Captain January 2009 - July 2010

Created a multidisciplinary design optimizer in MATLAB to spec out the competition plane as Performance Captain

Gained workshop experience by building plane parts from composite materials for Design/Build/Fly competition

CS 445 January 2009 - May 2009

Developed a particle lter to localize a robot in a known world/map with an ultrasonic sensor and magnetometer

Implemented a blob detection algorithm to identify objects and their pose from a 2D camera

Illumin Web Developer March 2008 - December 2011

Brought the editorial process online with a new website written with a custom MVC framework using PHP and MySQL

Other Experience: Raytheon Quality Engineer, Flash Avenue Web Developer, OneGeek Computer Repair Technician, USC

Underwater Robotics Team Software Team Member, TruthDig.com Web Consultant, Autonomous RC UAV

Skills

Engineering: MATLAB, Simulink, SolidWorks (Certi ed Associate), LabVIEW, NX, E3, Solid Edge, MultiSim, ModelSim SE, Xilinx

Computer Science: ROS (Robotic Operating System), C++, Java, jUnit (unit testing), SVN, Python, C, BASIC

Web Development: PHP, MySQL, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Django, Firebug, Adobe Photoshop

Honors / Awards

2nd place - AIAA Student Design/Build/Fly Competition (w/ AeroDesign Team) Spring 2011

Interactive Media Awards 2010 - Outstanding Achievement: Science/Technology (w/ Illumin) Fall 2010

Bridging the Gap award from the Society of Women Engineers Spring 2010

California Space Grant Consortium UROP Research Scholarship Spring 2010

USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean's List Spring 2009 - Fall 2011

USC Viterbi School of Engineering Stillman Scholarship Fall 2009 - Spring 2011

Most Useful Award at the Google 24 Hour Programming Challenge at USC February 2008

Dallastown Area High School Dollars for Scholars Scholarship Spring 2007

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