# Margaret Ackroyd

> Engineering | Innovation | Nanotechnology | Linguistics

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/margaretackroyd

Career Highlights:
• EMC Engineer at Cisco, where I worked in QA for Hardware RF Testing.

Passion Projects & Contributions:
• Played a key role as Project Co-Lead at NuLeaf Technologies Startup at NASA-AMES ASL Labs. Leadership of a nanotechnology project that required biochemists and programmers to work collaboratively.
• Authored an intuitive Introduction to Nanotechnology presentation to demystify fundamental nanotechnology concepts.

Educational Endeavors:
• Taught applied nanoscience to high school students at Summer STEM Camp.

🤝 Let's Connect:
• Happy to connect with like-minded professionals and enthusiasts. Let's dive deep into discussions about the latest in nanotechnology, language, or innovation.

## Work Experience
### Engineer 1 @ ATS Critical Facilities
Jan 2025 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
Hardware Controls Engineer

### EMC Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Milpitas, California, United States
I conducted 10 types of EMC RF Hardware tests in a B2B business: ESD, RE, CE, RI, CI, Harmonics, Flicker, EFT/B, Surge, & VDI.

I also created a department optics equipment inventory where I accounted for the presence of at least 6400 optics.

### Sales Associate - KeyHolder @ Kiehl's Since 1851
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Demonstrated specialized expertise in skincare product sales and troubleshooting customer concerns.
• Gave applied organic chemistry lectures to inform customer use and expectations around product use.

### Instructional Aide @ Foothill College STEM Camp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Foothill College
STEM Summer Camp is a extracurricular educational opportunity for high school students in the Bay Area to sign up for a weekly session in summer months to learn about the conceptual intricacies of nanoscience. 

An important secondary learning objective for our students would be to learn how nanoscience has incredible potential to improve society.

Quick link to the STEM Camp website for more info: http://www.foothill.edu/sli/STEM_summer_camps.html

### Project Co-Lead @ NuLeaf Technologies Startup
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | NASA AMES ASL Labs
Helped build a complex 50+ person organization devoted to research and student education.

Devised unique project to facilitate unique cooperation between computer programming students and students interested in scientific research

Designed the organization website layout and conceived of an original simulation system to reduce quantity of experimental outcomes to be tested and increase the efficiency of the research process within this singularly unique project.

Conceptualized the design of nanostructure systems needed to fulfill intended product function, and  helped create their requisite proof-of-concept experiments to prove their scientific validity.

### Intern @ NASA AMES ASL Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Data analysis, proof of concept experiment design,  etc.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz

### Associates of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Nanoscience
Foothill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mackroyd

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Last updated: 2026-04-10