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Hire Dr. Jordan M.

United States

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Freelance Embedded Software Controls Engineer | Model Based Systems Engineering

Profile Summary

I advanced the state of the art in "advanced diagnostics and prognostics" of machinery in my Ph.D. thesis analyzing failure in gearboxes subject to varying load and speed. I have made a career of creating simple machinery control and diagnostics solutions in automotive, space and defence.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Electrical Engineering
• ☆ Signal Processing
• ☆ Computer Engineering
• ☆ Software Engineering
• ☆ Software Architecture
• ☆ Systems Engineering
• ☆ Industrial Engineering
• ☆ Process Control
• ☆ Automation
• ☆ Manufacturing Automation
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Algorithm Design
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence
• ☆ Applied Mathematics
• ☆ Mathematical Models
• ☆ Mathematical Optimization
• ☆ Mathematical Control Theory
• ☆ Embedded Systems
• ☆ Marine Engineering
• ☆ Python

Services

• Writing

Writing Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing

Work Experience

Software Architect

American Rheinmetall Vehicles

February 2022 - July 2023

Naval Combat Systems Engineering Officer

Royal Canadian Navy

January 2023 - January 2023

Autonomy Engineer

Blue Origin

August 2020 - January 2022

Vehicle Software Engineer

Harley Davidson

September 2019 - May 2020

Embedded Software Engineer

Aptiv

March 2019 - August 2019

Lead Project Engineer

Vector North America

March 2016 - March 2019

Lead Software Engineer

Brose North America

April 2015 - August 2016

LabVIEW Controls Engineer

Revolutionary Engineering

October 2013 - March 2015

Education

Ph.D. Natural Resources Engineering

Laurentian University of Sudbury - Canada

May 2008 - July 2012

Ph.D. Natural Resources Engineering (Engineering)

Laurentian University

May 2008 - July 2012

Software Engineering and Management (Engineering)

McMaster University

September 1999 - May 2005

Software Engineering and Management

McMaster University

September 1999 - April 2005

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PATENT

(2019). AXIAL MODULATING MECHANISM FOR ROTATING SHAFTS REALIZING CONTROLLABLE-PITCH-BLADE FANS . USPTO.

(2019). Gear-driven axial modulating mechanism for rotating shafts realizing a controllable pitch propeller/fan . USPTO.

(2017). Phase-shifting sinusoidal commutation with optional rotary transformer . USPTO.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Jordan McBain, Markus Timusk(2014). Cross Correlation for Condition Monitoring of Variable Load and Speed Gearboxes . Journal of Industrial Mathematics. 2014. p. 1--10. Hindawi Limited

(2013). Vibration‐ and acoustic‐emissions based novelty detection of fretted bearings . Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering.

(2012). System identification for fault detection in variable speed and load machinery . International Journal of Condition Monitoring.

(2011). Feature extraction for novelty detection as applied to fault detection in machinery . Pattern Recognition Letters.

(2009). Fault detection in variable speed machinery: Statistical parameterization . Journal of Sound and Vibration.

(2009). Automated Operating Mode Classification for Online Monitoring Systems . Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.

CONFERENCE PAPER

(2012). Software architecture for condition monitoring of mobile underground mining machinery: A framework extensible to intelligent signal processing and analysis . 2012 IEEE Conference on Prognostics and Health Management.