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Mateja Putic

Computer Engineering graduate, with MSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia. Currently working as Faculty Assistant at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia.

Headline: Engineer
Website: http://www.embeddedhacker.com
Skills: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Groups: UVA E*Society
Interested in: Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services
Schools: University of Virginia

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia
Position: Faculty Assistant
Time period: August 2006 - Present
Description: • Performed repairs on high-voltage three-phase power conversion equipment that facilitates the instruction of power distribution systems in a laboratory setting.
• Established and administered wiki, forum, and version control software infrastructure for collaborative educational projects in use by over 400 students and faculty that has been awarded the 2008 UVa Teaching+Technology Initiative fellowship.
• Reengineered and assembled high-efficiency audible-spectrum amplifier and even-harmonic generator for use in Capstone project class instruction.

Employer: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia
Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Digital Logic Design
Time period: February 2007 - April 2007
Description: • Directed a class of 50 students in a laboratory setting with gaining hands-on experience in digital design troubleshooting.
• Held lectures and provided individual supplementary tutoring twice weekly on the core fundamentals of digital logic design.

Employer: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Time period: August 2006 - October 2008
Description: • Engineered low-power hardware/software co-design methodology using fine-grained dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) targeted at signal processing and multimedia applications, achieving energy reduction up to 37% over traditional designs.
• Developed exemplary digital architecture, fabricated demonstration chip in 90nm process, developed hardware testing and verification and validation (V&V) methodology, collected test data, justified approach in three publications.
• Facilitated the establishment of research that has produced proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other funding agencies to procure over $300,000.

Employer: Musictoday LLC
Position: Developer
Time period: February 2006 - July 2006
Description: • Developed full-featured Java box office web service application server that is currently used to sell tickets at 15,000+ seat venues, including John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA.

Employer: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Time period: August 2005 - October 2005
Description: • Developed an embedded Java voice recognition-based application to assist Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in making decisions and communicating in the field.

EDUCATION

University: University of Virginia
Time period: 2008
Degree: Electrical Engineering, MSc

University: University of Virginia
Time period: 2005
Degree: Computer Engineering, BSc

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: “Power Switch Characterization for Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage Scaling” Presented at ICCD2008
“Investigating Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Low Power CMOS” Defended Master’s Thesis
“Panoptic DVS: A Fine-Grained Dynamic Voltage Scaling Framework for Energy Scalable CMOS Design” Pending, DAC2009

INFORMATION

Memberships: HKN, IEEE

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    Currently pursuing Electrical Engineering degree at University of Virginia. President of Organization of African Students.

  • Ian A

    BSc in Systems & Information Engineering (04) & MBA (09) from Darden Graduate School of Business, UVA, founder of the Virginia Entrepreneurial Society (E*Society) in 2008.