Mentor engineering students and help grade Java programs. I have completed Java programs that find and detect genes in strands of DNA, analyze log files for website visitors, and decrypt coded messages in any language.

• Object-oriented programming
• Finding genes in DNA
• Web scraping

Completed machine-learning study for dry June conditions in Illinois based on regression that compares ordinary and partial least squares, pre-processing with principal components analysis, and LASSO methods using cross-validation and ANOVA analysis.

• Completed certificates in Web Development with PHP, SQL database administration and modeling, and Python programming from the University of Michigan on Coursera.
• Completed the machine learning study named 'Predicting a Dry June in Illinois.'
• Built and installed website and database in cloud at http://www.marcel-merchat.com/crudBasic based on the final project for the University of Michigan Certificate. Website includes SQL database with separate pages for logging-in, adding records, editing records, and a summary report generated with a database JOIN command. JavaScript and JQuery run in the browser application to help edit records. JSON data packets are exchanged with the website and database to help the user fill in common items.
• Made RF and mixed-signal engineering tools. I wrote a computer program to perform design calculations, create a netlist model, call a Spice circuit simulation program, and finally generate graphs and a report.
• Completed data scientist certificate by John Hopkins University on Coursera in October 2016 to help complete project at Motorola. Following this, completed certificates in Web Development with PHP, SQL database administration and modeling, and Python programming from the University of Michigan on Coursera.

• Analyzed raw data and wrote R program that parsed text reports and generated a clean data file and automated PDF report with tables, graphs, and the results of statistical hypothesis tests.
• Wrote R program generating an interactive webpage report for phone battery data
• I performed other duties related to the company’s wireless products including LTE radiation tests for new cellphone models and writing LabVIEW programs for new automated tests.
• Completed data scientist certificate by John Hopkins University on Coursera to help complete project.
• Wrote LabVIEW program for automated battery tests and Android communication
• Wrote test procedures for radar sensitivity, calibration, ESD measurements.
• Contact bounce tests with triggered oscilloscope
• Micro-soldering to 0.3-mm pads, 0201 components
• X-ray microscope inspection

• Measured transmitter power and modulation, receiver sensitivity, audio power, sound pressure level, distortion, and audio frequency response
• Wrote engineering specifications for radio receivers and transmitters
• Wrote test procedures for radar sensitivity, calibration, ESD measurements
• Measured transmitter power and modulation, receiver sensitivity, audio power, sound pressure level, distortion, and audio frequency response
• Evaluated components and parts
• Responsible for government regulations and energy efficiency reports for battery chargers
• Designed battery charging circuitry for energy efficiency regulations
• US Department of Energy tests with t-distribution statistics
• Setup California Consumer Products Laboratory for energy efficiency
• Wrote object-orientated C++ program that analyzed logged energy efficiency data
• Programmed environmental chambers
• Supported RF and audio technicians in quality control
• Failure analysis and corrective action

Senior Development Engineer for Resistors and Electrical Components from 1990–1997; Engineering Manager for Axial Resistor Business Unit 1988-1990

• Developed power surge resistors
• Calculated inductance, resonant frequencies, and microwave properties of resistors
• Performed life-cycle tests and calculated failure rates using chi-square and Weibull distributions
• Made AutoCAD drawings for tool and mold makers
• Provided application engineering services for customers
• Provided technical support for manufacturing
• Worked on correction action committees that investigated problems and implemented solutions. After I described scrap rates for fine wire in a glass coating process, the coating was changed to silicone with a lower processing temperature which reduced scrap by more than half while the company continued to sell glass coatings for heavier wire.