About
Acoustic Integration Engineer at Apple, developing audio systems for iPhone products. Graduate of the University of Miami, and pursued masters in Music Engineering and Technology. Experienced with acoustics and audio electronics.
Work Experience
Tempe, AZ
Sept 2024 - Sept 2025
Remote
April 2024 - July 2024
San Jose, CA
May 2023 - August 2023
Miami, FL
June 2022 - May 2023
Miami, FL
August 2022 - May 2023
Palo Alto, CA
June 2021 - July 2021
Palo Alto, CA
June 2020
Cupertino, CA
June 2020 - January 2021
Multiple Locations
August 2019 - Present
Rockford Fosgate
Acoustic Systems Engineer
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Served as DSP Tuning Engineer for numerous Harley-Davidson, Polaris, and Can-Am vehicles using SigmaStudio, Audio Weaver, Audio Precision, SMAART, AKM, and proprietary software. Successfully tuned all audio systems to meet frequency response and volume output targets requested by stakeholders.
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Identified and resolved several critical flaws in Harley-Davidson’s audio DSP architecture, and led a full redesign using Analog Devices SigmaStudio. Scheduled for implementation in the next major release.
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Conducted rigorous validation testing and measurements using Klippel, CAN, oscilloscopes, and multimeters (DMM) to verify optimal acoustic, mechanical, and thermal performance of Harley Davidson and Polaris audio platforms. Performed thorough analysis of speaker failures and unexpected system behavior, determined underlying causes, and implemented corrective actions.
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Worked closely with the electrical, embedded, and acoustic engineering teams to ensure unified operation and performance of audio systems.
ByteDance - Contract
Music Operations Campaign Lead
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Conducted user studies for ByteDance’s new AI-powered mobile application for music creation, Ripple. These studies are directly responsible for many new features within the app.
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Devised strategy with the Ripple operations team to maximize repeat user engagement, improve the monetization model, and promote community development.
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Populated Ripple’s template library, formatted to enable users to create their own pro-quality music.
TikTok - Speech, Audio, and Music Intelligence Team
Production Intern
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Created templates and assets for TikTok’s music artificial intelligence (AI) models utilizing Ableton Live, Python, command-line (Terminal), and Git version control.
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Identified areas of improvement in existing audio features, and provided comprehensive solutions to address them by writing technical documents for project managers and developers.
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Proposed a new audio feature for the TikTok platform, which was widely praised by team leads.
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ANIMAL Music
Production Intern, Assistant Engineer
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Created an original track that was placed on an AARP Radio commercial. Composed music and curated commercial pitches to advertising agencies for companies such as Google, Intuit, T-Mobile.
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Administered their composer outreach program, and managed licensing contracts for composer libraries.
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Later employed part-time after internship as the assistant engineer for their artist residency program.
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Weeks Recording Studio
Studio Manager
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Troubleshot and fixed recording equipment, trained and tested students for licensing, managed studio schedule and inventory, and remained on-call to assist licensed engineers.
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Logged 1000+ hours as lead engineer in studios on campus. Utilized SSL and API analog mixing boards, Dante Protocol, and Pro Tools S6 controller for clients’ recording sessions.
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Obtained Dante level 2 certification.
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The Girls' Middle School
Digital Music Production Summer Camp
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Designed and ran a music production summer camp where students learned the entire process of creating a song—including basic music theory, basic instrumentation and song form, using a digital audio workstation, mixing techniques, and distribution all throughout a two-week period.
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Students fully produced songs in their DAWs and are available to listen to on all major streaming services.
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The Girls' Middle School
Engineering Summer Camp
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Designed and ran a summer camp where students were taught engineering concepts using Minecraft and its in-game mechanics.
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Material included simple logic gates (or, and, not, nor, nand), binary/base 10 conversion, clock and timing, if/then/else statements.
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Students were taught applications of these concepts within Minecraft as well as real-world utilization.
Content Creator
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Posted music content consistently on TikTok, obtaining over 280,000 followers on a single account and over 60,000 on a secondary account, gaining insight on media creation and social media algorithms.
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Recording/Mixing Engineer
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Logged 1000+ hours as lead engineer in on-campus recording studios at University of Miami.
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Obtained licenses for all other on-campus studios. Dante level 1 and 2 certified by Audinate.
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Recorded for numerous musicians, artists, and faculty.
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Education
Coral Gables, FL
August 2022 - May 2024
Coral Gables, FL
August 2019 - May 2023
San Jose, CA
August 2015 - June 2019
Frost School of Music at the University of Miami
Music Engineering and Technology - Masters
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Graduate Class of 2024, pursued masters in Music Engineering and Technology. 3.93 cumulative GPA.
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AES Journal Paper, Master's Thesis - Conducted research in the field of black-box modeling of an unknown non-linear audio system. Utilizing MATLAB, successfully lowered the energy of aliasing frequencies in a Chebyshev non-linear model by over 16dB using a computationally efficient method. Master’s thesis expanded with the help of a co-author and published as an AES journal paper titled “Antiderivative Antialiasing for Chebyshev Based Generalized Hammerstein Models”​
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Frost School of Music at the University of Miami
Music Engineering and Technology - Undergraduate
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Undergraduate Class of 2023, received Bachelor's Degree of Science in Music Engineering and Technology. Minor in Electrical Engineering.
3.88 cumulative GPA, Provost’s Honor Roll (Fall 2020 – Present).
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Notable Courses:
Senior Design Project - designed and fabricated an innovative audio converter device for consumer and professional line-level specifications. Schematic and PCB designed using KiCad, and circuit board was assembled and soldered by hand.
Audio Signal Processing II and III - projects involve designing and coding audio plug-ins (Delay Matrix, SRS Stereo Expander, Karplus Strong Synth, filters) using C++, RackAFX, and JUCE.
Audio Signal Processing I - learning theory behind digital audio concepts such as FIR and IIR filters, A/D and D/A conversion, dither, aliasing, etc. with assignments utilizing these concepts using MatLab.
Audio Electronics - Hands-on projects utilizing audio circuit theory concepts. Projects include building a DI box, cable tester, simple amplifier.
Bellarmine College Preparatory
Class of 2019
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Activities and societies: Cardistry Club (founder), Advanced Jazz Ensemble, Symphonic/Wind Ensemble, Student-run Jazz Combos, Bellarmine Creative Studios (Video)
Weighted GPA 4.25. SAT score 1530.
Accelerated courses included Multivariable Calculus Honors, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C (Mechanics and E&M), AP Physics 1, AP Spanish, AP Macroeconomics. Completed 16 semesters of music courses. 13 undergraduate credits from AP transferred to University of Miami.
Skills
Audio Hardware/Software Systems
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Klippel
Audio Precision
SMAART​
Analog Devices SigmaStudio
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Coding/Scripting Languages
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C++
Python
JUCE (C++ Framework)
RackAFX (C++ Framework)
MatLab
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Video/Photo Editing Software
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Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
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Instruments
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Piano - 13 years of private lessons
Drum Kit - 4 years of private lessons
Classical Percussion - 8 semesters
Bass Guitar - Self taught​​
Electronics/Circuit Simulation Software
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KiCad
PSPICE
ExpressSCH
ExpressPCB
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Digital Audio Workstations
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Ableton Live
Avid Pro Tools
Logic Pro X
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Other
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MuseScore - Scorewriter
Rekordbox - DJ Platform
Microsoft Office Suite
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Honors, Awards, and Certifications
Provost's Honor Roll (Fall 2020 - Spring 2023)
Issued by the University of Miami. Not issued Spring 2020 due to the global pandemic.
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Dean's List (Fall 2019 - Spring 2023)
Issued by the University of Miami. Not issued Spring 2020 due to the global pandemic.
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Dante Certification Level 1 and 2
Issued April 2020 by Audinate. Certification verifies holder has a solid understanding of Audinate's network-based product "Dante." No expiration date.
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Quincy Jones Musicianship Award
Issued May 2019 by Diane Wyant on behalf of Bellarmine College Preparatory. Award honors "outstanding students for their creativity and musicianship." Nationally recognized.
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Certificate of Merit - Level 10 for Piano
Issued Jan 2017 by the Music Teachers' Association of California. Standardized testing for classical piano, level 10 being the highest level they offer.
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Most Outstanding Member - Bellarmine Percussion
Issued May 2018 and 2019 by Bellarmine College Preparatory. First student to ever receive award two years in a row.