Dean Biskup

At Citrix, I was part of the ShareFile Items team. The ShareFile items team handles everything that has to do with uploading, user permissions, downloading, and storage of the files and items in ShareFile (a Dropbox-like software that is part of Citrix Workspace).

Personally, my project was to provide email notification functionality to an existing bot deployed in Amazon Web Services. To do this, I updated the bot to a newer, cross-platform .NET standard, and used existing ShareFile API endpoints to send a ShareFile-formatted email to the user upon the bot's completion. As part of the project, I oversaw the development, testing, and deployment of the updated bot to production.

In addition to my project, I also helped fix 5 customer issue tickets as well as 3 bugs found from internal testing, personally bringing these bugfixes from research to testing and into production.

At NIO, I was part of the Digital Cockpit Team designing the "infotainment" system in the NIO ES8. This includes the dashboard displays, center console, radio, and other parts of the in-car entertainment system.

As part of the hardware team, I wrote an easy-to-use test suite that helps engineers run hardware diagnostics. The immediate application was for environmental test cases, but the suite can be applied to other situations as well. Specifically, the test suite (written in Python), interacted with the on-board operating systems and provided functions for an external python script to thermally stress and continually monitor various CPU and connectivity functions.

During the Spring 2018 semester, I took on a part-time internship located at the University of Illinois's Research Park for Sandia National Labs. I was part of a team of 4 interns developing a data viewing web application, which could parse Google Protocol Buffer, JSON, or HDF5 formatted data files into a tree structure and display the data for the user. This web application utilized the React frameworks with Express for the server side. The React Client interacted with the Express server, which utilized a PythonShell to interact with several Python scripts in order to perform plotting or image visualization and modification.

For the summers of 2016 and 2017, I worked as an Electric Powertrain Intern at Lucid Motors in California. As an intern, I designed and wrote Java software the streamline the tuning of shunts to accurate read the current moving through the inverter part of the drivetrain. The small Java GUI I wrote would graph the current moving through two shunts in real-time, as well as have the capability to control a CNC mill that was cutting the shunts to the correct thickness.

I also tested various phase-change thermal interface materials, characterized the data, and was able to find a material that doubled thermal efficiency of the interface. Along the same line, I designed and implemented a test of thermal efficiency for a supplier-provided sample of the Inverter's thermal system.

A small part of my work also included desigining a thermal runaway test utilizing Nichrome wire to simulate the external heating of an 18650 cell. I also characterized the massive amounts of data we collected, and formatted them to be readable using Microsoft Excel.