Richard Thompson
State College,PA
Summary
Software Engineer Intern dedicated to improving skills through hands-on learning and development work. Proficient in desktop development environments. Adept at using Java, Python and C++ to produce clean code. Well-organized and collaborative team player with strong analytical abilities that plans to specialize in autonomous control systems and distributed systems.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
R&D Software Engineering Intern
Applied Research Laboratory
06.2023 - Current
- Develop for digital signal processing applications with a focus on distributed systems
- Experience with socket programming and application layer network programming
- Primarily write high-performance C++, Python and some Shell
- Extensive experience troubleshooting and debugging in a Unix environment
- Investigated and resolved application functionality issues.
Section Supervisor, QA Inspector
United States Marine Corps
06.2016 - 06.2021
- In a key leadership role, supervised a department of 43 members, ensuring optimal long-term planning as well as continuous training for personnel
- As an aircraft Quality Assurance Inspector, successfully completed over 800 aircraft inspections in accordance with applicable manuals
- Successfully trained 23 new inspectors
- Conducted performance reviews to identify employee strengths and encourage professional development opportunities.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
The Pennsylvania State University
05.2025
Skills
- Java
- Python
- C
- Git
- Debugging
- Application Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Experience communicating technical information to non-technical personnel
UAV Projects - Autonomous Robotics Competition Club
- COMPUTER VISION - Collaborated with a team of three on a Convolutional Neural Network based AI for defect detection in industrial environments using UAVs. Processed 11,592 images with a 77.9% precision rate.
- LEADERSHIP ROLES - Currently leading the team for the International Conference of Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2024 (ICUAS24) competition. Also the current Corporate Liaison Executive.
Personal Projects
- GROUND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS - Currently constructing a full stack project to act as a broker and server for autonomous swarm missions
- P2P DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION - Currently architecting a serverless, trustless, distributed communications application with the intent of implementing in Go using the libp2p API
Timeline
R&D Software Engineering Intern
Applied Research Laboratory
06.2023 - Current
Section Supervisor, QA Inspector
United States Marine Corps
06.2016 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
The Pennsylvania State University
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