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Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
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Equipment Maintenance
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· During Christmas break from the University of Maryland, I designed and built a radio telescope in my backyard.
· I always had a passion for Astronomy, so during Christmas, I flew home from college and designed and made a parabolic reflector I used for radio Astronomy in my backyard in Georgia.
· Using Trigonometric functions, I graphed the parabola and focal point for the dish and plotted the points using small nails on a plywood sheet.
· I used this to guide the antenna elements to the right parabolic shape.
· I utilized a metal ring for the central hub, attaching the curved antenna elements circumferentially with wire rings of increasing size from the main point of the telescope.
· I bolted this through a tree my cousin helped me cut down and installed an altitude adjustment I designed and built.
· I could control the altitude of the dish to capture everything at that celestial coordinate that traversed the meridian daily.
· I pointed the radio telescope at the sun, the most powerful radio source in our sky.
· I got a 200mV deflection on my analog multi-meter, validation that the project succeeded.