Electronics Engineer

Daniel Overstreet

***** **** ******, *** #**, Torrance, CA 90505 214-***-**** ******.**********@*****.*** Employment History

Technical Engineer, Fisker Inc. in Torrance, CA March 2019 – February 2020

Established processes for manufacturing solid electrolytes for solid-state and hybrid lithium ion batteries o Inventor on a patent for these processes (Publication: WO2020041775A1)

Designed and built a gas flow delivery system for precise gas switching and flow during heat treatments

Sintered all solid-state electrolytes for lithium ion batteries o Improved setter architecture and optimized heat profile to increase uniform throughput

Formulated solid-state electrolyte slurries to be processed and tape casted out of water defect-free

Researched and tested battery management systems with conventional lithium-ion 2170 cells

Conducted post mortem analysis on cells to determine failure mechanisms Product Engineer, Axium Nano in Ithaca, NY January 2018 – December 2018

Developed and scaled up processes for a nonwoven fiber separator for rechargeable batteries o Recognized by Daimler as the safest separator for liquid electrolyte batteries on the market o Increased thermal stability and increased high charge rate cycle retention

Operated pilot-scale electrospinning and electrospraying machines

Collaborated with Cornell’s College of Engineering to scale up sample submissions

Assembled multilayered lithium-ion pouch cell batteries for joint development agreements

Analyzed data and presented ways to improve processes during weekly meetings Software Support Engineer, AccelTex Solutions in San Antonio, TX September 2016 – November 2017

Provided support and debugged firmware development for enterprise class Wi-Fi light load controller o Achieved Aruba compliant certification

Designed and tested off-the-grid solar solutions for various wireless systems

Delivered test plans and simulation modeling tools for solar solutions

Designed and tested custom Wi-Fi antennas and enclosures for large stadium infrastructures Software Customer Engineer, Imagination Technologies in Austin, TX October 2015 – March 2016

Connected worldwide internal and external engineering teams during software development

Built, debugged, and patched Android/Linux kernels for variety of reference platforms

Debugged graphics processor unit device drivers across multiple branches and hardware devices Research Associate, Axium Battery LLC in Austin, TX July 2014 – March 2015

Assembled 1,000+ lithium sulfur, silicon anode half, lithium ion pouch, and prismatic batteries

Researched and introduced water soluble binders for our anode and cathode

Programmed battery cycling protocols to analyze rate capability and capacity retention Operation Technician Intern, Windstream Hosted Solutions in Raleigh, NC May 2012 – August 2012

Installed server closets, cleared (i.e., DBAN) hard drives, and performed cable management Education

Texas A&M University, B.S. in Electronics Engineering Technology August 2010 – May 2014 Project Manager and Test Engineer for Capstone Project at Texas A&M

Wrote code in C on a PIC24 to communicate to a SD card, motor control board, WiFi module, RFID module, and power saving smart lights

Created and tested a four-layer printed circuit board (PCB) using Eagle

Designed a custom mounted enclosure for our prototype and 3D-printed it using SolidWorks Skills

Technical: Battery development, software and hardware development, computer networking, project management Software: Windows, Linux, Fusion 360, Arduino IDE, Quartus, ModelSim, Eagle, Altium, MultiSim, Excel, Visio, SolidWorks Software languages: Embedded C, VHDL, Java, LabVIEW, Visual Basic, Python, Bash

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