Franz Heubach, M.A.Sc.

Experience

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  Franz Heubach

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2016

  Owner/ Manager

  Work-flow and time management, and providing skilled manual labor in areas such as arborism, gardening, carpentry, landscaping, and painting.

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  DalFSAE

  Jul 2016 - May 2017

  DalFSAE Fluids Team Co-Lead

  As part of the larger Dalhousie Formula Team. My co-lead and I are there to give clear direction regarding what we want to accomplish, coordinating tasks for fluids team members, providing help with team member's tasks and questions, creating a motivating and engaging learning environment and coordinating tasks with the other teams to build the final SAE formula car.

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  Dalhousie University Enivronmental Science Department

  Jul 2016 - Sept 2018

  Hydrology Real Time Water Quality Monitoring Station Technician

  Re-installation and continual monitoring of real time water quality stations for the Dalhousie Environmental Science Department for the purpose of gathering data. This data is will be used in research the effects of events such as acid rainfall in watersheds near Kejimkujik Provincial Park.

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  Martec Limited

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2016

  Student Engineer

  As part of the Explosion and Fluid Dynamics Team I carried out blast simulations using our in-house Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code Chinook, developed a blast model, created meshes for naval and blast simulation applications, carried out a continuation of validations for Chinook, and with assistance I created tests for the Chinook auto-tester that keep track of code changes for Chinook code development. Finally, I created technical notes for all the projects I worked on to summarize and finalize the work I completed, for internal use. Show less

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  NewAE Technology Inc.

  May 2017 - Jun 2019

  Student Engineer

  As part of a company with its focus on security education and providing tools for embedded hardware security research, I take part in research and development, assembly and manufacturing, and documentation. Specifics include: developing our software UI, and API using Python, writing code documentation, writing tutorials and introductory methods of using our tools, mechanical layout, packaging, surface mount re-flow soldering, and hand assembly.

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  Dalhousie University

  Sept 2019 - Mar 2022

  Long-Range Gravity-Aided Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation Taught tutorials, marked, provided one-on-one student help, and presented a few lectures for core courses in Mechanical Engineering. The courses include Control Systems I (core), Control Systems II (core), and Space Systems (elective).

  • MASc, Mechanical Engineering with focus in Robot Autonomy

    Sept 2019 - Mar 2022

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2019 - Apr 2021
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  Intelligent Systems Laboratory

  Sept 2020 - May 2022

  Developed and implemented data security SOPs for on-site source code hosting and secure development environments for ISL contract work. System administrator for the on-site GitLab server, and provided developers with orientation for the secure development environments. Developing underwater vehicle behaviours using the Robot Operating System for Defense Research and Development Canada.

  • System Administrator

    Jul 2021 - May 2022

  • Software Engineer

    Sept 2020 - Mar 2022