About Me

Motivated Computer Engineering Student pursuing challenging opportunities in Software Engineering, Embeeded Systems, and Automation. My strong academic background and continuous learning approach allows me to quickly pickup skills and be a dynamic leader in fast paced environments.

Skills

Experience

Education

Programming

Python

C/C++

Bash

SQL

HTML/CSS

Javascript

Technologies

Linux

AWS Services

Unity 3D

Wireshark

ROS2

Selenium

Electronics

Microcontrollers

Soldering

Test Equipment

PCBA Design

Industry Tools

Git

Confluence / Jira

September 2024 - May 2025
Tesla | Wireless Connectivity Software Intern
June 2024 - August 2024
MITRE | 5G Engineering Intern
June 2023 - August 2023
MITRE | Computer Engineering Intern
January 2023 - May 2023
iRobot | Systems Test Automation Engineering Intern
May 2023 - August 2023
National Science Foundation | Cyber-Pysical Drone System Research

September 2020 - Present
Computer Engineering Student @ University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Pursuing my Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering. Previous academic courses in:

• Networked Embedded Devices
• Image Processing
• Embedded Systems Lab
• Security Engineering
• Computer Hardware Organization and Design
• Systems Programming
• Advanced Programming (DSA)

Personal Projects

Electric Couch Vehicle

Electric driving couch built from scratch. Custom 72V 40Ah Li-ion battery from 18650 cells; 5 Miles per charge; 15 MPH top speed; Controlled by Bluetooth PS4 Controller; Programmed in C++

HackUMass X Winner: Hacking RFID

36 Hour Hackathon project: Reverse engineered and reimplemented Wiegand protocol, used in ~40% of RFID systems, through bit-banging. Designed an injectable, "man in the middle", sniffing device. Created a GUI for demonstrating data coming across data lines. Demonstrated remote replay and DoS attacks live

Email Text-to-MP3 Summarization Tool

A Python application that will summarize your unread emails over a specified time interval. The summarization will be sent as an text message containing an MP3 file back to the user, allowing them to listen to their unread emails. Utilizes Google API, Twilio API & ChatGPT API

Temperature Access Control System | Atmega328P

Access control system that detects people, checks their temperature, and allows/denies entry on a door lock. The system is built upon an Atmega328p, programmed in Ansi C, with an OLED display, 2 Ultrasonic sensors, a DC motor, TMP36 temperature sensor, and 7-segment-LED.

Node.JS Reactive Personal Website

A custom Javascript and CSS reactive website to display my personal projects, skills, and experience. Programmed in Summer 20223, it is currently not deployed.

NVIDIA Jetson Machine Learning

This project was focused on testing different machine learning models, Posenet & Mobilenet-v2, on the NVIDIA Jetson. These object detection models and pose-estimation models were experimented with for future use in a fitness application

Hi, I'm John Dale
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About Me

My Technical Strengths

Software
Automation

Embedded
Systems

Hardware
Security

Relational
Databases

5G
Architecture

Lixux
Environments