Resume

Education

• Master of Applied Science in Engineering + AI, University of Guelph, 2020
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering Co-op, University of Guelph, 2018

Work experience

• Research Assistant
  • April 2018 - August 2018
  • University of Guelph
  • Worked on a project in a team of 3 to develop a website using Django which could optimize Archimedes’ screws for power generation for a client.
  • Individually developed and tested features and fixed various bugs in Python for the Archimedes’ screw project
• Innovation Web Application Developer & DevOps Co-op
  • September 2017 - December 2017
  • Sun Life Financial
  • Was part of the innovation team which experimented with new technology that could be used in the business as well as the DevOps team responsible for integrating tools to help software developers
  • Worked in a team of 3 developers to build prototypes and demos for the Google Home as well as develop a website using HTML, JavaScript and CSS within 2 weeks
  • Individually migrated projects from using old development tools such as Dimensions and Ant to using new tools such as Bitbucket, Jenkins and Maven and trained other developers on the migration
• Hardware Designer Co-op
  • May 2017 - August 2017
  • Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
  • Was part of the FPGA team responsible for designing, developing and debugging modules
  • Individually developed self-checking test benches in Verilog to simulate and verify FPGA functionality
  • Reviewed schematics and PCB layouts for products under development to find any potential issues with the design and provide feedback
• Software Developer Co-op
  • January 2016 - August 2016
  • Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc.
  • Collaborated with a team of 3 software developers to develop a user interface and unit tests for cinema projectors in C++ and QML according to specifications
  • Successfully upgraded the current version of Qt being used in cinema projectors
  • Efficiently worked with a team of 9 individuals from different departments to deliver software under the Scrum methodology
• Student Design Engineer
  • April 2015 - August 2015
  • Evertz Microsystems Ltd.
  • Worked on a team to design, develop and debug hardware platforms using FPGA development
  • Developed lists of warnings and scripts to stop Xilinx and Altera FPGA builds early to report potential issues earlier in the development cycle
  • Independently developed, modified, and debugged modules to fit current project needs as well as future project needs
• Farm Worker
  • Jun 2008 - Present
  • Szentimrey Seeds Ltd. & Szender Farms Ltd.
  • Have worked on the family farm which runs a commercial grain elevator and produces chicken and seed
  • Efficiently analyzed and removed unwanted seed varieties from 300 acres worth of soybean, wheat, barely, and oat seed fields on a yearly basis
  • Assisted in the maintenance of a poultry barn of 17,000 chickens in a fast-paced environment

Skills

• Languages
  • Python
  • C
  • C++
  • Java
• Frameworks/Libraries
  • Keras
  • Tensorflow
  • scikit-learn
• Tools/Processes
  • Git
  • Anaconda
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Linux operating systems
  • Agile development
• FPGA Development
  • VHDL
  • Verilog
  • Xilinx Vivado environment

Publications

Machine Learning for Congestion Management and Routability Prediction within FPGA Placement

Hannah Szentimrey, Abeer Al-Hyari, Jeremy Foxcroft, Timothy Martin, David Noel, Gary Grewal, and Shawki Areibi. 2020. Machine Learning for Congestion Management and Routability Prediction within FPGA Placement. ACM Trans. Des. Autom. Electron. Syst. 25, 5, Article 37 (October 2020), 25 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3373269

Teaching

ENGG*2410 - Digital Systems Design Using Descriptive Languages

ENGG*3130 - Modelling Complex Systems

ENGG*2410 - Digital Systems Design Using Descriptive Languages

CIS*3120 - Digital Systems

Awards

• Master of Applied Science
  • NSERC - Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s (CGS-M), 2019
  • Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI), 2019
• Bachelor of Engineering
  • Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education Gold Medal (awarded for having the highest cumulative average in engineering at convocation), 2018
  • College of Engineering & Physical Sciences Society of Excellence, 2018
  • E. B. MacNaughton Convocation Prize (awarded for being chosen the W. C. Winegard Medal nominee for the College of Engineering & Physical Sciences), 2018
  • CPES Dean’s Scholarship (award for having one of the highest academic performances in the previous academic year), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017