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Danielle Becerra

Danielle Becerra

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Introduction to Python

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Introduction to Python

Statistical poet, weaving elegant stories with the threads of data.

My Work

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Data Manipulation with pandas

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Introduction to Python

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Intermediate Python

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Data Manipulation with pandas

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Intermediate Python
Data Manipulation with pandas
Introduction to Statistics in Python

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Tesla | Mar 2022 - Present

Staff Product Engineer

- Subject matter expert for Seats and Safety - Perform data analysis, using SQL and Python, to identify top issues impacting customer vehicles, root cause these top issues and bring solutions to the appropriate teams; quality, design, or manufacturing to improve the product - Define requirements for on-board diagnostic methodologies and diagnostic alerts, including considerations for third-party body shops, and work with the software development team to implement - Use data based metrics to determine which subassemblies should be brought online to create a better technician and customer experience while balancing the trade offs of maintaining part inventory - Identify and propose product improvements to HW and SW developments teams that will increase reliability, reduce service cost, and improve customer satisfaction for new and existing vehicle platforms - Assess risks and make tradeoffs to determine with stakeholders the best technical design
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Tesla | Jun 2019 - Apr 2022

Senior Product Engineer

- Lead subsystem expert for seats, safety and restraints, with supporting role of exteriors and interiors - Communicate product roadmap and necessary deadlines to service engineering through the launch of Model Y program, while setting service readiness requirements for design engineers - Participate in new product introduction efforts from a design for serviceability perspective for seats and safety components - Provide diagnostic and repair tools and plans to field technicians for seats and safety components - Maintain vehicle off road diagnostic tool to automate diagnosis of high cost field failures, minimizing vehicle downtime, Language used Python - Collaborate cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, integration and service development teams to create the best company wide solution for vehicle and service improvements - Create Theory of Operations for new vehicle programs to give a foundation of knowledge for service technicians to understand a subsystem prior to diagnosis

Tesla | Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

Product Engineer

- Subject matter expert for Seats, Safety, Exteriors, Interiors and Closures - Collaborate with technicians globally to resolve difficult field issues related to the subsystems I own - Automated diagnostics to triage vehicles prior to arriving at service

Tesla | Feb 2017 - Sep 2018

Vehicle Test Engineer

Component Durability • Test Engineer executor on component level seating test for prototype Model 3 Seats and sustaining seats for Model X in order to work with design teams to root cause failures • Created and machined test fixtures in the machine shop out of extruded aluminum to automate the operation of passengers sliding seats forward to get in back seat • Creation of LabVIEW controls program in order to test Seats and interior components durability over the component’s life. • Use of JIRA and other Atlassian software to organize test schedules and report test results • Programmed FANUC robots to simulate cyclical ingress egress onto vehicle seats Vehicle Durability • Execute and manage as lead test engineer for Norway In-Territory Testing of Model 3 to test how the vehicle performs in extreme climates with high density of Tesla customers • Manage Vehicle Accelerated Life Test for Rear Wheel Drive and All Wheel Drive Release Candidate and Pilot Vehicle variants • Triage reports of test issues to root cause the problem and improve upon current design • Review CAN signals to find bugs in latest firmware update and examine vehicle state at times of incidents to evaluate if there is a hardware or software issue • Root cause analysis of issues found at production as well as design and feeding this information back to the appropriate teams to promote improvements

Verifone | Jan 2015 - Feb 2017

Hardware QA Documentation Engineer

Documentation - Review and red line drawings of parts - Ensure drawings effectively use GD&T - Creation of company drawing standards - Continually update department test procedures to ensure documentation reflects current process Product Qualification - Creation and performance of test plans to qualify new products or second source suppliers - Communicate back to the program and design team points of weakness with product design - Use of CNC machine and other machine shop equipment to create test fixtures - Programming 3 axis TT Robot and 6 axis Denso Robot to automate tests - Use of LabView to interface with Denso Robot as well as unit under test to create a dependency of feedback from unit to continue on with automation of test Travel - Presented company best drawing practices guideline to the global design teams in Rocklin, California, Singapore and Taipei - Worked with third party lab in Brazil to begin the framework of completing testing in Brazil with units coming right off the production line.

Superior Group | Jun 2013 - Dec 2014

Systems Test Engineer Contracted for Disneyland Parks and Resorts

- Strain gauged an animatronic figure for Walt Disney Imagineering in order to verify FEA results. -Use different data acquisition devices and chart records to do current monitoring, voltage checks, I/O checks on PLCs, speed testing, temperature and accelerometer readings - Conduct various tests for Rehabs, new vehicles and any other changes of an attraction on both Mechanical and Controls Systems by collaborating with cross-disciplinary departments to coordinate and complete a successful test. -Beginner knowledge on programming PLCs using RSLogix - Gained knowledge of control systems from an electro-mechanical standpoint - Working with outside vendors on ordering parts and sending back instruments for calibration as well as fixing equipment in house -Created MatLab Programs for more efficient data post-processing - Monitoring current and voltage using a Dranetz meter on various electrical panels for long periods of time -Created Test Reports of Post-processed and evaluated data to be given to proper cognizant engineers -Support Sustaining and Ride and Show Engineering groups on all testing needs. Continuation of internship

Disneyland Resort | May 2012 - May 2013

Instrumentation Engineer Intern

- Organize, plan and schedule testing that needs to be performed on attractions. - Design and fabricate the mechanical layout a Speed Detection Instrument using SolidWorks to be used Parkwide while communicating with an electrical counterpart to create a prototype - Perform both Mechanical and Controls Operational Test plans on every attraction in both Parks, including but not limited to PLC and VFD checks, accelerometer and speed testing. - Install control system hardware on various attractions - Wire and perform I/O checks on a remote console used at Disneyland's Main Street Railroad Station

Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement | Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

Undergraduate Officer

o Stimulate teamwork and confidence among students in the Compton Unified School District

UC Irvine | Mar 2011 - Sep 2012

Peer Academic Advisor

- Guide student as to what classes and course of action to take in their academic careers - Provide resources to better their collegiate experience

University of California, Riverside | Jun 2010 - Dec 2011

Graduate Student Affairs Assistant for Mechanical Engineering Department

o Advise graduate students on scheduling and advertizing the dates of their exams and dissertations o Coordinated and proctored preliminary exams for Master’s Candidates o Assembled and filed clerical work so that candidates could advance in their degree

My Education

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Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California, Irvine | 2013

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