Electrical Engineer in the Boston area. Broad practical experience with interests including wireless communications (RF), battery/power systems, analog and digital design, embedded systems, product development, and wearable electronics.
Embedded System Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Greater Boston AreaHardware Intern @ I completed 2 internships with Quanttus: 1 during the summer of 2014, and 1
Electrical Engineer in the Boston area. Broad practical experience with interests including wireless communications (RF), battery/power systems, analog and digital design, embedded systems, product development, and wearable electronics.
Embedded System Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Greater Boston AreaHardware Intern @ I completed 2 internships with Quanttus: 1 during the summer of 2014, and 1 during the winter. I did wearable device product development. Responsibilities over summer and winter break internships included:
Custom Circuit Board design
Circuit Board bringup/triage
Battery analysis and documentation
Designing, building, and documenting test rigs
Test Plans
Sensor analysis
RF antenna analysis (including building RF test fixture)
Sourcing of parts
3-D printing
Rapid Prototyping
Weekly progress presentations From May 2014 to January 2015 (9 months) Hardware Engineer (Internship) @ First Internship with Sonos was during summer 2013. I worked on a Research and Development project for a new type of speaker driver. The project involved closing a control loop around several sensors. I designed a circuit board for the project in Eagle. Tools used include: oscilloscope, multimeter, LTspice circuit simulator and Eagle PCB Layout tools.
Second Internship with Sonos was in December 2013 during winter break. I was doing product analysis of battery technologies. I performed rigorous tests on Lithium Polymer batteries and charging circuits under various electrical and environmental conditions. I used oscilloscopes and various data acquisition devices, then analyzed the data in Excel. I made a final presentation to a technical group of engineers. From May 2013 to January 2014 (9 months) Quality Assurance Engineer (Internship) @ Continuation of Internship from Where which was bought by PayPal.
Worked an additional winter break and summer.
Member of Quality Assurance Engineering team working on the initial launch of the PayPal Here mobile payment application. Responsible for testing iOS, Android, Web client application against a highly secure payment backend.
Responsibilities included:
- Writing test plans (included full regression test plan)
- Manual testing
- Worked closely with remote locations (Croatia, India, San Jose)
- Participating in agile daily scrums
- Entered and Verified bugs in Jira
- Helped to determine priority of bugs From 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Quality Assurance Engineer (Internship) @ Member of the Quality Assurance Engineering team responsible for shipment of the Where Mobile Application. Responsible for testing iOS, Android, RIM, Web client applications running against a Java Spring server.
Responsibilities included:
- Writing test plans
- Writing automated tests in Selenium
- Manual Testing
- Participating in agile daily standups
- Entered and Verified bugs using Redmine
- Helped to determine priority of bugs
- Directly worked with engineering team From July 2011 to August 2011 (2 months) Lead Student Sound Technician @ This position involved running the sound-board in the Derryfield theater for weekly school-wide assemblies and for theater productions. Required full understanding of the PA system including digital signal processing units, amplifiers, wireless microphones, speaker placement, gain-setting, equalization, etc. From 2008 to 2011 (3 years)
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering @ University of Vermont From 2011 to 2015 High School Degree @ The Derryfield School From 2006 to 2011 Devin Walker is skilled in: Testing, Mobile Devices, Agile Testing, Agile Methodologies, Matlab, Mobile Applications, Electrical Engineering, Test Planning, Arduino, Circuit Analysis, Analog Circuit Design, Audio Engineering, Embedded Systems, Quality Assurance, Mobile
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