Career History
Maintenance Technician III, C&W Services, West Jordan, UT, Jun 2020-Present
- Shift lead responsible for various maintenance tasks at an Amazon fulfillment center
- Earned the 3P RME Raising the Bar award for 2021
Self Employed, Mikstas Industries, LLC, May 2019-Jun 2020
- Perform contract work primarily based on embedded systems
FPGA Design Engineer 3, L3 Communications, Feb 2018-May 2019
- Implemented FPGA based modem designs in VHDL and simulated those designs in Modelsim
- Performed lab testing on products under development with signal generators, spectrum
analyzers and other RF test equipment
- Wrote software to automate modem test procedures using C#
Teacher’s Assistant-Electrical Engineering, Santa Clara University, Aug 2015-Dec 2017
- Taught lab classes for Intro to Logic Design, Advanced Logic Design and Computer Architecture
- Taught lecture classes for Junior Project Design and Senior Project Design
- Created design projects for juniors involving PCB design, hand soldering and enclosure design
- Guided electrical engineering seniors through their year-long senior design projects by providing
technical support and progress evaluations
Crit. Facilities Tech., Brookfield (Contracted to Apple), Sunnyvale, CA, Jan 2015-Jun 2016
- Performed various daily checks to ensure the reliable operation at Apple critical facilities
- Installed AC electrical power circuits in both lab and office environments
Customer Engineer Level 4, Liebert, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Feb 2001–Jan 2015
- Most junior Liebert associate to earn the position of project leader
- Consistently demonstrated the ability to work with both Liebert associates and customers of all
personality types
- Responsible for coordinating large computer power equipment installations and startups located
across the San Francisco Bay Area and other Western States, in many cases exceeding one million
dollars in value to both the customer and Liebert
- In depth knowledge of three phase power equipment including rectifiers, inverters, static
transfer switches, flywheels, DC power plants, and power distribution equipment
Active Duty Army, United States Army, Iraq, 2004–2005
- 642nd Aviation Support Battalion, 2 Army Commendation Medals
Army National Guard, Atascadero, CA, 1999–2007
- 340th Forward Support Battalion