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Work Experiance

Self Employed, La Jolla, CA 2013-Present

Owner/Manager/Engineer 

Current Projects: LabView Automation, sensor implementation, Mixed signal circuit test, simulation, analysis, & integration engineering. Perl Data mining, Visual Basic, embedded systems, Bitcoin mining, and instrumentation development

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center / UCLA / Northwestern Univ 2008-2013

Graduate research assistant

  • Designed and developed Hyperpolarization Instrumentation for cancer imaging at molecular level

  • Developed hardware & software for 3rd generation Hyperpolarization Instrumentation prototype

  • Mentored two undergraduate students in research. The first joined the MSEE program at Texas A&M

  • One Patent, 2 published papers as first author, 3 under review, and 2 in first draft, and 2 papers as coauthor

Air Force Space Command San Diego Station, San Diego, CA 1994-2002, 2004-2008

Electronic Technician 

  • Monitored the operation of the satellite detection system. Identify, isolate, and resolve all system failures

  • LabView programming of the System Control Satellite Data Acquisition for the U.S. Air Force (Chugach)

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 2003-2004

Graduate research assistant

  • Developed non-moving parts piezoelectric motors

  • Patent: Piezoelectric ultrasonic motor for 2-dimensional positioning

Cadence Designs Systems, San Diego, CA 2000-2002

Senior Test Engineer

Mixed signal ASIC devices Characterization using Credence & Teradyne testers

​© 2014 by Jose Agraz PhD

 

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