Experience

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Assistant researcher with industry experience finishing Master's Degree in Smart Grids.

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Assistant Researcher
Tampere, Finland
connorbeheydt@gmail.com

Work Experience

Research Assistant

Dec 2023 - Present

Research on edge computing and IT solutions for Smart Grid applications.

Skills

  • Write and maintain project codebase, timeseries database, and IoT devices
  • Edge computing, IoT, smart meter protocols (IEC61850, DLMS-COSEM), power quality standards (IEC50160, IEC517)
  • Raspberry Pi, Docker, InfluxDB, Grafana, Linux, Python, C, MCU programming

Systems Engineer

May 2022 - June 2023

Industrial systems engineering contractor. Worked several large projects for industrial clients.

Skills

  • Rockwell and Siemens graphic interfaces and PLC programming
  • On-site experience in several industrial plants
  • Full project cycle experience

Tutor Manager, part time

May 2021 - May 2022

Manager for student tutor on campus. I worked as a tutor myself in 2020.

Skills

  • Schedule tutors in multiple residence hall locations
  • Direct Communication with and management of multiple active staff members
  • Participation in hiring activities for employees
  • Organization and presentation of instruction materials

Teacher Assistant, part time

May 2021 - August 2021

Summer job working for one of my professors at university. First time trying to re-implement content from research papers.

Skills

  • Designed assignments and organized content for graduate courses
  • Novel feedback control systems, MATLAB programming, LaTEX

Education

Masters of Engineering in Smart Grids, Tampere University

2023 - Present

Master degree with focus on making power grids more reslient, self-healing, and renewable

Skills

  • Electrical engineering, grid automation, solar and wind energy
  • Distributed energy resources, electrical motor control, power quality

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics, The Ohio State University

2018 - 2022

Double major in engineering physics and applied mathematics. I'm glad I got the opportunity to study general relativity and quantum mechanics while working on signals and systems and digital logic.

Skills

  • Control systems, digital logic, analog systems and circuits, microcontrollers
  • Complex analysis, scientific computing, tensor calculus
  • Intermediate mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics
  • Software and comoponents, C++, Python, Java

Undergraduate Research

2022 - 2023

Research into resonant tunneling diodes

Skills

  • Si-based Resonant Interband Tunneling Diodes
  • Silvaco semiconductor simulation software
  • Independent self-study on semiconductor physics