Kyle L Perkins

College address: 4541 Steinbeck Street Unit 2, Ames, IA 50014

Home address: 609 South Madison Street, Madrid, IA 50156
Email: klp@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-402-7844
Objective
To obtain a full-time job in the field of Electrical Engineering to further my knowledge and gain
valuable experience.
Education
Iowa State University
Major: Electrical Engineering
GPA: 3.81
Expected Graduation Date: May 2016

2012 - Present

Work Experience
Union Pacific
Summer 2015
Communicated and worked with another intern on a summer-long project
Worked with embedded systems, sensors, and low-level communication protocols
Learned about the surface-mount board design process and did some surface-mount soldering
Lab Technologist Assistant
Feb. 2014 May 2015
Built and soldered instrumentation op-amp circuits to be used in an ME instrumentations course
Wired a panel for a heat-exchanger to be used in an ME course
Troubleshot and fixed PWM boards for the aforementioned heat-exchanger panel
Perkins Electric
2006 - 2013
Worked as a general laborer for 7 years
Worked with both large scale housing projects and small scale residential housing
Ran wire, installed heaters, outlets, switches, fans, GFCIs, and lights, and made and marked
measurements for installation
Technical Skills
Laboratory
Experience with multi-meters, power supplies, function generators, and oscilloscopes
Experience with bread-board work, circuit prototyping, and Arduino and chipKIT platform
Experience with soldering
Computer
Experienced with Java and C programming
Experienced with Microsoft Office and MATLAB
Some experience with Orcad PSpice and TinyCad
Activities
ISU Hackathon
Won best Leap Motion project by working with teammates to build a virtual piano