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Chris Howard

Leesburg,VA

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Systems/Software Engineering Intern

Spec Innovations
05.2023 - Current
  • Participated in failure analysis and debugging report activities.
  • Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
  • Designed and coordinated engineering bug tests.
  • Worked with software team deploying update patches.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
05.2026

Skills

  • Embedded systems
  • C, C
  • Verilog
  • Innoslate (MBSE)
  • SOLIDWORKS
  • MATLAB

Additional Information

Personal Project 1 - Wireless Sensor Node:

Developed an autonomous sensor node utilizing Arduino Uno to collect and transmit temperature data wirelessly via Bluetooth, enhancing emergency response capabilities by providing early detection of environmental changes, such as forest fires.

Information: docs.google.com/document/d/1KRbQvLrl2rxv4XcZ1168_d1jDOk3blVxShEIh2JQm-Y


Personal Project 2 - Hardware Coding with TI MSP432 Board - Dinosaur Game

Employing my knowledge from embedded systems, the dinosaur game found when chrome is offline was implemented to the Texas Instruments MSP432 board, using various coding strategies. This employs knowledge of general software coding, hardware abstraction implementation, along with hardware and software timers.

Report: drive.google.com/file/d/1cu_u6XaoziRsi8V9qH_eDNNSnL6Rb7Fv

Repository: github.com/the-chrishoward/DinosaurGameProject


Timeline

Systems/Software Engineering Intern

Spec Innovations
05.2023 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Virginia Tech
Chris Howard