Cirriculum Vitae

An overview of my education, career, skills, and publications.

Alex Salce

Education

  • M.S. in Statistics and Data Science, University of Arizona, December 2024 (expected)
    • Certificate in Statistics and Data Science, University of Arizona, 2023
  • B.S. in Engineering Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2011

Work experience

Aerospace

  • Principal Electrical Engineer (Q1 2024-PRESENT)
    • SME, electrical interconnect modeling
    • Guidance electronics hardware common test equipment design and electrical architecture
    • Test equipment design for FAA approved flight applications
  • Senior Electrical Engineer (Q4 2018 - Q4 2023)
    • Team lead for major program electrical harness and interconnect design
    • Test equipment lead for Advanced Technologies program
    • Systems Test Directorate representative for enterprise level Model Based Systems Engineering electrical design tool trade study
    • Test equipment design lead for Captive Flight Test with successful flight data collection
    • Developed interactive Mass, CG, MOI test error analysis tool for proprietary measurement system to estimate measurement uncertainty given an unit's mass properties

Automotive

  • Senior Engineer (2018)
    • Supported product integration of third party suspensions with vehicle platform
  • Design Engineer II (2015 - 2018)
    • Developed company driveline balance specification leveraging findings from work in company T10 quality issue response team alongside suppliers and third party Engineering teams
    • Developed tools using phasor universal joint calculation principles that provided high accuracy analysis of driveline performance for any input vehicle specification and driveline layout
    • Integrated calculations with automated tools to analyze any desired number of vehicle specifications in company database
  • Design Engineer I (2013 - 2015)

    • Optimized automated BOM generation for variable harness lengths within common product database tool, reducing custom engineering work for variable components by 13% of total production volume

Skills

  • Expert

    • Electrical interconnect modeling SME
    • Siemens Capital Suite, Microsoft Office

  • Strong

    • Python, R & RStudio, MATLAB, LaTeX

  • Working knowledge

    • HTML/CSS/Javascript, general frontend
    • Mentor DxDesigner, PTC Creo Tools, Rhapsody, DOORS, Siemens NX, COMSOL

  • ML techniques

    • LDA, Logistic Regression, SVM, KNN
    • Trees, Random Forest, Bagging and Boosting
    • Clustering
    • Neural Networks

  • ML Optimization

    • GD, SGD, SVRG, SARAH(+), ADAM(+)

Publications

Jiao, Y., Salce, A., Ben, W., Jiang, F., Ji, X., Morey, E., & Lynch, D. C. (2011). Siemens and siemens-like processes for producing photovoltaics: Energy payback time and lifetime carbon emissions. JOM, 63, 28–31. https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:137367977

A detailed résumé or CV can be provided upon request.