A 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at the University of South Florida building toward a career in defense systems. Currently an EE intern at Orbital Corporation working on tactical communications hardware, a USF Global & National Security Institute Future Strategist with direct exposure to Pentagon and Capitol Hill decision-makers, the founder of Ellis Dynamics, a countermeasure systems company currently building a GPS-denied navigation validation pipeline anchored in ARL and DARPA literature, and the Technical Development Chair for NSBE USF. My work sits at the intersection of embedded systems, resilient power, and national security, bench-built and clearance eligible.
Building a GPS-denied navigation validation pipeline. Kalman filtering for 6-DOF IMU fusion, inertial dead reckoning error characterization, and TT&C ground station development. Anchored in ARL and DARPA INS literature.
View Ellis Dynamics →Building IPC-A-610 Class 3 tactical communications wiring harnesses. Multi-pin crimp connectors, cup soldering, continuity and resistance fault isolation, EMI shielding and nailboard layout interpretation.
Engineering Resume →Industry summits, research briefings, and engineering showcases. Where technical work meets operational context.
Five days moving through the national security ecosystem with the GNSI cohort. Defense, diplomacy, intelligence, and policy: the full system that engineering has to move through and survive.
Open post →SOF Week 2026 took over downtown Tampa. Special operations forces from around the globe, alongside the institutions, organizations, and companies that support them. On the ground with GNSI.
View post ↗During the GNSI DC Experience, I stood outside Lockheed Martin and took a picture. No tour. No briefing. Just enough to understand the scale of the industry I am preparing to enter.
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Represented USF NSBE at the Engineering Expo. Showcased engineering pathways and chapter initiatives to industry partners.
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Tampa-area security engineering conference. Defense professionals, students, and practitioners across critical infrastructure sectors.
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NSBE USF career strategy event. Aligned early-career planning with long-term professional impact for Black engineers at USF.
Open post ↗Hardware builds, power systems, embedded firmware, and infrastructure modeling — all documented with measurable outcomes and engineering rationale.
ESP32 firmware with FFT-based THD detection in sub-100 ms intervals, <3% RMS error margin. AES-128 + MQTT TLS 1.2 over a NERC CIP-compliant telemetry pipeline validated end-to-end.
PWM trip-logic holding system stability within 10% of peak capacity. Active RC filtering cut noise (Vpp) by 35%, bench-validated with digital oscilloscopes.
Proxmox + pfSense multi-tier lab. MATLAB load-flow simulations cut grid restoration time 22%. Cascading failure modeled across 7 infrastructure layers and 500+ outage scenarios.
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