Systems Engineer @ From December 2015 to Present (1 month) Lead Electrical Engineer @ Leading a team of exceptional Electrical Engineers designing the hardware that enables Airware's Aerial Information Platform. From January 2012 to November 2015 (3 years 11 months) Electrical Engineer @ Worked with Chip Yates on the development and construction of his record-setting Long-ESA electric airplane. Assisted in development of electric powertrain and battery management system, and developed patented in-air-recharging technology. From January 2012 to July 2012 (7 months) Electrical Engineer @ Electrical Engineering lead, responsible for design and implementation of primary drive and accessory electronics for a Guinness World-Record breaking electric motorcycle. Worked as part of a three-person team to design, build, and campaign the motorcycle in a variety of race events, culminating in a 202mph world-record-setting run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2011. From 2010 to 2012 (2 years) Electrical Engineer II @ Electrical Engineer with Boeing Phantom Works, designing avionics for the A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter. Designed avionics hardware and developed embedded firmware for distributed sensor system and mil-spec power conversion and distribution system. Assisted in transition to production from prototype manufacturing methods, and provided extensive troubleshooting and in-field support to flight test program. From June 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 7 months) Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Undergraduate researcher in the Center for Biologically Inspired Design implementing a hardware simulation of blue crab chemical plume tracking methods. Duties included installing and troubleshooting a two-axis linear rail robot to move a sensor array through a saltwater flume to track chemical plumes. Also responsible for implementing a National Instruments LabVIEW interface to control the robot based on sensor feedback. From September 2007 to May 2009 (1 year 9 months) Teaching Assistant @ Teaching Assistant for two sections of ME3720 "Thermal Systems Engineering" with a total of 92 students. Duties include weekly office hours to tutor students, weekly homework grading, and pre-test review sessions three times a semester. From August 2008 to December 2008 (5 months) Electrical Engineering Intern @ Worked as a summer intern with Boeing Advanced Unmanned Systems, Concept Exploration on the A160T Hummingbird UAV. Responsible for various software and hardware updates to the power system, as well as testing of newly redesigned components prior to their being used on the aircraft. From June 2008 to August 2008 (3 months) Co-op Student @ Undergraduate Co-op student in the Electrical Systems Laboratory (ELSYS). Primary responsibility was development of operational flight software for the ALR-69 Radar Warning Receiver. Also responsible for developing a hardware-in-the-loop test console to verify the operation and performance of ALR-69 firmware updates. From August 2006 to December 2006 (5 months) Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Worked as an undergraduate in the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory alongside a team of two graduate students to design, develop, and test the first university-built fuel-cell aircraft in the United States. Designed and constructed the fuel cell balance of plant control system, power conversion system, data acquisition system, and data telemetry system. From June 2005 to June 2006 (1 year 1 month) Intern @ Intern responsible for software test, technical documentation, and pipeline AM/FM/GIS alignment sheet generation. Experienced with AutoCAD, ARC/GIS, and software test methodology. From May 2002 to July 2005 (3 years 3 months)
Electrical Engineering @ Georgia Institute of Technology From 2004 to 2009 Robert Ussery is skilled in: Embedded Systems, Thermal Engineering, Test Engineering, PCB design, Product Development, Electronics, Avionics, Troubleshooting, Manufacturing, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Sensors, Engineering, Testing, Robotics, Mixed Signal, Systems Engineering, PCB Design
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