TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Skills & Tools

Capabilities built across power systems, embedded firmware, infrastructure modeling, simulation, and systems security. Everything here is backed by active hardware projects, live builds, or ongoing research.

B.S. Electrical Engineering CIBR Lab Researcher Security+ Certified NSBE Tech Dev Chair
PROVEN IN PROJECTS

Skills Backed by Active Work

Applied in Smart Grid Monitor, Infrastructure Lab, and active CIBR Lab research.

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POWER SYSTEMS
AC/DC analysis, load-flow & THD detection

RMS Voltage/Current/Power Factor measurement with <3% error margin on ESP32. FFT-based Total Harmonic Distortion detection in sub-100ms. MATLAB load-flow simulations optimizing grid restoration by 22%.

Smart Grid Monitor · Infrastructure Lab
EMBEDDED FIRMWARE
ESP32/Arduino, PWM control & signal conditioning

PWM trip-logic for overcurrent protection maintaining stability within 10% of peak rated capacity. Active RC filtering reducing electrical noise (Vpp) by 35%. Bench-validated with digital oscilloscopes.

Load-Shedding Controller
DESIGN & SIMULATION
MATLAB/Simulink, LTspice, SOLIDWORKS Electrical

Power regulation system designed in SOLIDWORKS Electrical for 12V-to-6V DC-DC conversion. MATLAB cascade failure modeling across 7 infrastructure layers (500+ unique scenarios). PulseGrid AI simulation.

Infrastructure Lab
SYSTEMS SECURITY
AES-128, MQTT TLS, infrastructure hardening

NERC CIP-compliant data transport with AES-128 + MQTT TLS 1.2. Network segmentation via pfSense and inter-VLAN routing. CompTIA Security+ — infrastructure security, secure protocols, identity management.

Smart Grid Monitor · Infrastructure Lab
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
Human-AI interaction & behavioral datasets

Analyzing 500+ human-AI interaction datasets for cognitive bias patterns. Building conversational AI for cybercrime victim support. OSINT research design on digital footprint exposure across social and data broker platforms.

USF CIBR Lab
CAPABILITY AREAS

Technical Domains

The full scope of the engineering lane — what's active now, what's in progress, and what's building.

Power & Circuitry

Active

  • • AC/DC circuit analysis and 3-Phase power
  • • Power Factor Correction and Load Flow Analysis
  • • Transformer theory and Thevenin equivalents
  • • DC-DC power regulation design (12V-to-6V)
  • • LiPo discharge rate management and protection

Embedded Systems

Active

  • • ESP32 and Arduino firmware development
  • • PWM control — servo drivers and motor logic
  • • Signal conditioning and RC noise filtering
  • • Digital oscilloscope bench validation
  • • Sensor integration: current, voltage, IMU

Modeling & Simulation

Active

  • • MATLAB/Simulink — load-flow and grid modeling
  • • LTspice — circuit simulation and analysis
  • • SOLIDWORKS Electrical — power system schematics
  • • PSpice, KiCad — PCB design and simulation
  • • AutoCAD 2D/3D and Revit — design documentation

Software & Automation

Active

  • • Python — firmware automation, gait control, data pipelines
  • • C/C++ — embedded firmware development
  • • Bash — infrastructure scripting, 40% diagnostic time reduction
  • • SQL — data extraction and analysis
  • • Git/GitHub — version control and project management

Infrastructure & Networking

Active

  • • Proxmox VE — hypervisor and VM orchestration
  • • pfSense — firewall config and inter-VLAN routing
  • • TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS protocol analysis
  • • Network segmentation and topology design
  • • Linux system administration and log management

Systems Security

Applied Edge

  • • AES-128 + MQTT TLS 1.2 for IIoT data security
  • • NERC CIP compliance design patterns
  • • CompTIA Security+ — secure protocols, identity mgmt
  • • Network traffic analysis and infrastructure monitoring via homelab
  • • NIST SP 800-61 incident response — applied to infrastructure failure events
TOOLING

Tools & Platforms

Tools used across casework, research, and active builds.

Infrastructure & Network Analysis

Wireshark
tcpdump
Nmap
pfSense
NIST SP 800-61
Proxmox VE

Compliance & Threat Framing

NERC CIP
MITRE ATT&CK (ICS)
Shodan (ICS exposure)
Splunk
CompTIA Security+
NIST CSF

Network & Systems

Nmap
pfSense
Proxmox VE
Kali Linux
Ubuntu
tcpdump

Development

Python
Bash
PowerShell
SQL (SQLite / MySQL)
Git / GitHub
REST APIs
SUMMER 2026

What's Next

Building toward ARMS — Applied Research in Military Systems. A defense engineering org launching Spring 2027. This is what the technical stack needs to look like before that launch.

ARMS — PROJECT 01

GPS-Denied Inertial Navigation

  • • IMU-based dead reckoning on ESP32 or STM32
  • • Drift quantification and error analysis pipeline
  • • Kalman filter → sensor fusion layer
  • • Field-validated to professional documentation standards
SOFTWARE & AUTOMATION

C/C++, Python & Bash

  • • C/C++ — embedded firmware development
  • • Python — gait automation, data processing, scripting
  • • Bash — network triage automation, 40% diagnostic time reduction
  • • Git/GitHub — version control across all active projects
CERTIFICATIONS & RESEARCH

Security+ & CIBR Lab

  • • CompTIA Security+ — infrastructure security, secure protocols, identity management (Jan 2026)
  • • CIBR Lab — analyzing 500+ human-AI interaction datasets for social engineering vulnerability patterns
  • • Undergraduate Research Symposium — April 2026

Open to Opportunities

Targeting EE internships in power systems, embedded engineering, and infrastructure — with a security-hardening edge. Primary target window: Summer 2027. Open to conversations now.