2017

3 Projects

FLC

Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
Promoting, Educating, and Facilitating Knowledge Transfer
  • Programmatically migrated a custom Solr server into Drupal for easier content management
  • Wrote duplicate reducer to compare nodes by measuring the similarity of common fields across sources. Used Levenshtein Distance algorithm and took action based on threshold configurations.
  • Rebuilt new Solr indexes with Drupal's Search API to respect CMS revisions and publish settings
  • Built front-end Full-Text search tools for the global site Search and FLCBusiness and showing facet counts
  • Built custom in-page editorial tools available by Drupal roles and node access hooks
  • Integrated CAS Authentication System for unified login portal between FLC sites
  • Rebuilt custom theme with Bootstrap to improve overall site responsiveness, scalability, and ARIA compliance
  • Wrote automated crawling importers for all NASA labs and various 3 parties technology sources
  • Upgraded Google Map integration to automatically update Map results alongside listed search results

Started: 2017-08-01

Launched/Lasted: 2020-01-01

Industries: Technology, Marketing, Events, Analytics

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End, API. Joseph Anderson: Cypher CEO. Denise Wainer: UTRS Director of Communications. Will Dyson: UTRS System Administrator, Release

Companies/Brands: Federal Labs Consortium, Cypher LLC, UTRS

Refined Motion

Assembly line robotics and automation
Automating safety and efficiency along the Tesla assembly line
  • Built Angular / Node-Red interface for guiding operators to fasteners, then testing torque and resistence after each fastening.
  • Wrote MySQL stored procedures to query required settings of each fastener and store results
  • Structured offline-first interface to configure assembly-line jobs and control tools & machinery
  • Created custom node-red modules for smoother synchronization with Fanuc robots
  • Wrote additional tools to allowing management to configure and validate jobs manually with or without needing the MySQL database
  • Deployed Node-Red backend on Raspberry PI connected to station Windows computer
  • Built client-side performance tracker averaging the time to assemble one project in a job
  • Wrote Station Service request tool to allow operators to order more parts or tool servicing

Started: 2017-12-01

Launched/Lasted: 2018-04-01

Industries: Technology, Robotics, Manufacturing

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Aaron Silverberg: Vice President. Saiman Shetty: Project Management

Companies/Brands: Tesla Motors, Flexible Assembly Systems, Refined Motion Engineering

Ampp Star

Art, Music, Poetry, & Photography
  • Built React.js application with Keystone.js CMS, MongoDB database and Express server.
  • Connected Express API on Heroku with S3 bucket for user file storage
  • Connected Mailgun and Nodemail services within application and Heroku control panels for automated emails

Started: 2017-09-01

Launched/Lasted: 2018-02-01

Industries: Music, Art

Team: E.A.Taylor: Front-End, Back-End. Jahanzaib Aslam: Front-End, Back-End. Garrett Morris: Front-End, Back-End. Bisera Mandic: Owner

Companies/Brands: Ampp Star