Logan Kirk

About Me

Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate with experience in PCB design, hardware debugging, and soldering. Skilled in developing and maintaining test fixture hardware, coupled with a strong background in firmware development and verification.

Skills:

Hardware:	Altium Designer, PCB layout, hardware debugging, soldering
Firmware:	C code (NXP, STM, TI), Arm Cortex-M architecture
Software:	C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, Git, SVN, TFS, Perforce
Web:	Apache2, PHP, Twig, MySQL, HTML, CSS
Management:	Agile (Scrum, Kanban), team leadership, product design, technical writing

Education

Electrical Engineering, B.S.	North Carolina State University - December 2018
Computer Engineering, B.S.	North Carolina State University - December 2018

Experience

Test Engineer (Actalent) - Caterpillar	December 2020 – March 2024
Developed over 100 Python functional tests using Robot Framework, selenium, pandas, and pywinauto Rearchitected our test framework to support additional testing capabilities, adhere to software best practices, and increase usability Researched, wrote, and presented a proposal to improve internal development practices, promote team efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction Led onboarding process for four new team members, including knowledge transfer and training
Firmware Verification Engineer (Actalent) - Honeywell	December 2018 – December 2020
Debugged and maintained test fixture hardware and software, developed new feature tests, and contributed to software test library Served as regression testing group team lead for four months, managing work and training new members Managed between five and ten regression runs simultaneously
Test Engineer (Actalent) - Carrier	March 2024 – Present
Implementing a fully automated Python-driven test system including integration with TeamCity Providing software architecture guidance to team, including system design and best practices
Lab Engineering Intern - Schneider Electric	July 2018 – December 2018
Led project in Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing lab on GTEM cell calibration Created visualization software using Python to streamline calibration process and improve UX Assisted in design and construction of EMC verification hardware

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