Resume

Casselberry | FL | 32707
Phone: (321) 276-0233 | Email: akeemliburd@gmail.com

Technical Skills

• Analog and Digital Hardware Design
• Schematic capture and PCB Layout
• STM32Fxx, Atmel/Microchip ATxx, Cypress FX2, Xilinx Spartan 3/6
• USB, Ethernet, RS232/485, I2C, SPI…
• Oscilloscopes, Digital Logic Analyzers
• HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Java

• 8 & 32 bit Embedded Design
• Embedded C, Assembly/MIPS
• FPGA Design in Verilog
• Troubleshooting at the Component Level
• SPI, I2C, USB and Ethernet Packet Analyzers

Software Experience

Extensive use of: Altium Designer, Eagle PCB Layout, LT Spice, STM32CubeMX, Eclipse, Atollic TrueStudio, Keil Microvision, Atmel Studio, Wireshark, Xilinx Vivado IDE, Visual Studio, MySQL Workbench, Python

Familiarity with: TouchGFX Studio, Cadence OrCAD, Microchip IDE

School Projects

• PCB Design
• FPGA Design
• Designed an agent using reinforcement learning that was able to navigate GridWorld.
• Designed an automated stock trading bot that trades based on the sentiment found in financial statements.
• Developed and trained a model on images and steering information that can successfully drive a car around a simulated track at least once.

Experience

Nov, 2016 – Oct, 2019

Ocean Optics Inc.

Winter Park, FL

Nov, 2016 – Oct, 2019 Ocean Optics Inc. Winter Park, FL

Electrical Engineer

• Developed firmware in embedded C for Cypress FX2 based spectrometer that communicated with a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA using combination SPI and digital 16-bit bus interface
• Ported spectrometer firmware from Texas Instruments Stellaris to ST Microelectronics STM32F756 microcontroller and added Ethernet TCP/IP capability to USB spectrometer
• Troubleshot and resolved customer reported issues with spectrometers and electronic accessories
• Designed detector daughter card with both analog and digital circuitry for miniature spectrometer
• Created analog and digital circuitry for various projects and test fixtures


Sept, 2007 – Apr, 2012 Nevis Multiline Services Charlestown, Nevis

Assistant Manager

• Solely responsible for the IT operations of the office.
• Oversee and lead office and field operations.
• Built a fully functional web-based application to increase efficiency of the business’ daily operations.

Education

Jan, 2020 – May, 2021 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL

Master of Science in Computer Engineering

Specialization: Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

GPA: 3.71

Graduated: May 2021


Jan, 2020 – May, 2021 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL

Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering

GPA: 3.52

Graduated: August 2016