USC Makers is a project-oriented club that has many teams working on different hardware-focused projects, including IoT, robotics and embedded systems. I joined the club in Spring 2017 as a software and hardware developer, and I became a project manager for one of the teams starting Spring 2018.
Here are some projects that I have led:
1. Autonomous Soccer Robot
(https://ethany.me/robotics/software/hardware/2020/04/17/Robonaldo.html)
2. Magic Mirror
(https://ethany.me/software/hardware/iot/2020/04/18/Magic-Mirror.html)
3. Nerf Gun Sentry Gun
(https://ethany.me/software/hardware/computervision/2020/04/23/obliterator9000.html)
Here are some of my duties:
• Led and set weekly agendas for general and departmental (software and hardware) team meetings
• Hosted workshops on Node.js, Raspberry Pi, ROS, and general software and hardware development and good practices
• Established feedback systems and coordinated one-on-one meetings to boost productivity
• Contributed to project manager discussions on effective ways to increase productivity and effectiveness within teams, wrote part of the club's project manager guide