Ernesto Jimenez

I made it possibel for EMC to track sales data for their entire sales team by building an analytics tool using JavaScript. It helped the company learn the areas where they needed to increase sales and track data over time. I wrote a Harmonic Power Whitepaper for the electro-mechanical industry, gave technical presentations to other engineers, developed sales strategies and SOPs, trained new engineers on our products, and sold energy efficiency products.

• Video: Qué es un variador de frecuencia? (What is a VFD?)

I worked in one of Intel’s new technologies, running etching experiments and qualifying tools for production. I was responsible for ensuring that production tools were operating within acceptable boundaries set by the development site in Portland, OR. When tools operated out of control, I troubleshot them and communicated to the technicians the game plan that needed to be followed to fix the tool.

Worked on two projects under the Process Systems Engineering Laboratory

Barton Group
I built a dynamic Flux Balance Analysis (DFBA) model in MATLAB to simulate metabolite and biomass production by microbial communities. The primary goal of my research was to understand how guilds/species affect the community in which they live through metabolic exchanges. The challenge was in determining how to weight the biomass reactions of the individual guilds - while constraining the stoichiometric matrix to obey conservation of mass – and simulate real-world communities. At the AMGEN Scholars poster presentation in July 2013, I presented on a microbial community that can be used for carbon-dioxide sequestration.

Braatz Group
The goal of my research was to control the crystal size distribution for crystals nucleating and growing along a continuous, slug-flow crystallizer. The temperature was fluctuated along the length of the continuous crystallizer to control nucleation and growth. I wrote a Visual Basic code to collect the temperature and pump flowrate readings and send them to a data-acquisition software, OSIsoft’s PI server. With the temperature profiles, we were able to tinker with the crystallizer to enhance nucleation and growth. We measured the uniformity and size distribution of crystals for many crystallization experiments and created a time profile for these results. Publication: Continuous-Flow Tubular Crystallization in Slugs Spontaneously Induced by Hydrodynamics.

I wrote a script for AIM Autosport to help them analyze their race data and compare it to that of their competitors.

I worked under Dr. Joann M. Stock, and I was responsible for finding discrepancies in the primary waves data collected along the San Andreas Fault. I ran scripts over large datasets to calibrate the arrival times for each seismometer, and used a 1-D seismic travel-time calculator to help other researchers create a 1-D velocity profile.