Alena Novikova

Experience

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  West Coast Construction Services

  May 2017 - Aug 2017

  Apprentice

  - Installed doors- Installed door handles- Painted walls- Unpacked construction materials- Cleaned furniture

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  Sacramento County

  Oct 2020 - Nov 2020

  Poll Worker

  - Helped process voters during the 2020 election- Checked voters in, printed, and gave them the ballots- Made sure that out election site followed all covid protocol procedures

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  Scope

  Feb 2021 - now

  Cohort Member
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  University of Southern California

  Aug 2021 - now

  Course producer for Introduction to Embedded Systems 109 course. Responsibilities include:- Assisting students during the labs with Arduino, circuits, state machine diagrams, DMM and oscilloscope use- Holding office hours- Grading students’ assignments

  • Course Producer

    Aug 2021 - now

  • W.V.T. Rusch Undergraduate Engineering Honors Program

    Aug 2021 - May 2024
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  Agritainer

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Software Engineering Intern

  - Implemented a self-cleansing filtering system with multi-threaded code (Python) using relays and waterflow sensors operating on RPi microcontroller- Learned to use various transmission protocols like TCP, UDP, MQTT in various settings

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  ResMed

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Software Engineer Intern

  - Implemented API library for S10 device dataflow testing in Java using Feign annotations- Performed E2E testing involving clinician's interaction with Airview web platform- Completed a project to detect an error in S10 device's data processing using Gherkin, Java, and Selenium- Lerned agile project management process

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  USC John O'Brien Nanofabrication Lab

  Jun 2024 - now

  Nanofabrication Intern

  Sponsored by the US DoD, CA DREAMS internship focuses on Microelectronics Nanofabrication production process. As part of ongoing research in the lab, I manufacture microelectronics components (e.g. neural probe) by going thorough the whole production process which includes:- Photolithography- Etching (80 RIE, DRIE)- Deposition (PVD, CVD, E-Beam deposition)