1. 912 NE 72nd
St tmartinez@sparling.com
Seattle, WA 98115 206.841.9293
Electrical Engineering Experience
Electrical Designer Dec. 11, 2013 – Present
Sparling Seattle, Washington
 Design electrical, security, telecommunication, and lighting control systems for ~27 construction projects
 I have worked on a diverse set of projects:
o Bothell City Hall
o Washington State Convention Center
o WSU Clean Tech Lab
o Sea-Tac
o Woodland Park Zoo
o Burke Museum
o Ballard Swedish Hospital
o Various Libraries
o Various Hotels
o My own house
 Able to efficiently work and manage time for ~6 projects at the same time, often with colliding deadlines
 Quality Check electrical designs and divide AutoCAD and Revit work between ~2-3 employees
 Coordinate with other designers such as AV, telecom, lighting, architects, mechanical to create electrical designs
 Understand the design process for the construction of commercial buildings, “Design Build”/“Design Bid Build”
o SD, DD, CD, Permits, Addendums, RFI’s, Change Orders, Record Drawings
 Survey electrical panels in the field to calculate Arch flash and required PPE level at each electrical panel
 Perform short circuit analysis for complex electrical systems
 Experience with designing electrical systems for remodels and upgrades
 Evaluate installation of electrical design
 Active in the Sparling community
o Volunteer with the ACE program to teach high school students how to design electrical systems
o Created a Sparling basketball team
o Organize/Participate in Sparling events such as monthly parties and annual volunteering events
o Sparling CEU program, ~16 hours/year dedicated to learning about new products from vendors and
personally improving my design skills
Education (University of Washington)
 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics minor Graduated: Jun. 2013
 GPA: 3.7 / 4.0 Dean’s List: Fall 2008, Fall 2009 – Fall 2010, Spring 2011 – Winter 2012
 Scholarship Awards: National IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus [2012], UW Grainger Foundation
Power Engineering Endowed Scholarship [2012], Engineering Learning Community Scholarship [2011 - 2012]
 Extracurricular Activities: Architecture Construction Engineering Mentor, Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering
International Honor Society), IEEE (Seattle), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, UW Dream Project, UW
Men’s Glee Club, UW Soccer Club
Engineering Capstone/Class Design Projects
 Designed stable, reliable and cost efficient transmission line networks for an 80 turbine wind farm, a 12 bus
system, and a simplified western U.S. system
 Designed and constructed a closed loop flyback converter and closed loop boost converter
 Created a fault analysis program and a power flow program in MATLAB to calculate voltage and current
magnitudes at each bus for medium sized power systems
 Synchronized a generator with the electrical grid to deliver real and reactive power to Seattle City Light
 Created a memory management program in C to free and allocate memory
 Designed a digital Morse code decoder, two player tug-o-war game and other programs for my FPGA using Verilog
Tomás Martin Martinez, E.I.T.

2. Research/Other Work Experience
Renewable Energy Analysis Lab Researcher April 2013 – Dec. 2013
University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering Seattle, Washington
 Modeled the variability of photovoltaic generation
 Analyzed three years of BPA data to characterize wind generation variability
 Organized and processed 300,000+ data points in Excel and MATLAB
 Wrote a technical report detailing the results and conclusions of the data analysis
Academic Mentor/System Administrator Sept. 2010 – Aug. 2013
University of Washington College of Engineering Seattle, Washington
 Maintain and assist operation of a 10 workstation Linux computer network for approx. 100 students
 Consistently tutor calculus, physics, electrical, and computer science engineering
 Programmed a computer kiosk to track the time student’s spend at the Engineering Academic Center
Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory Researcher Jan. 2010 - Aug. 2010
University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering Seattle, Washington
 Developed method for volume reconstruction using a laser grid and a camera
 Research team of approx. 20 engineers approved my method, I was then responsible for experimentally testing
my method for accuracy
 Instructed the next engineer on how to perform accuracy tests for my method
Leadership
Math Academy Instructor Aug. - Sept. 2010, 2011 & Jul. - Aug. 2011, 2012, 2013
University of Washington College of Engineering Seattle, Washington
 Created an intensive math curriculum with homework, exams, and daily schedule to instruct a collegiate
equivalent pre-calculus class for six hours each day
 During the program I made important decisions to adapt my curriculum to the students’ learning style and
learning speed
 Assigned duties and responsibilities for five other employees
 Recognized for outstanding leadership and achieving an average math improvement of 109.8% for Math Academy
students in 2011 (up from a 63.2% math improvement in 2010)
 For UW Math Academy 2012 & 2013 I was promoted to an instructors to teach 32 high school students pre-
calculus for a month (results: student average math improvement of 79% in 2012 & 284% in 2013)
 Asked to remain under employment during the school year as an Academic Mentor

3. Technical Skills
Languages: TeX typesetting (with LaTeX), Java, Unix shell scripting, C, C++, Verilog
Software: Revit, AutoCAD, SKM (Short Circuit/Arc Flash Calculations), MATLAB, SPICE circuit simulations (with PSpice
& Multisim), PowerWorld, R (statistical computing), LabVIEW, Quartus
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux
Relevant Coursework
Electrical Engineering Courses:
Electrical Safety Training – Power Studies: SPARLING
Digital Circuits and Systems
Devices and Circuits I
Discrete Time Linear Systems
Energy Systems
Control System Analysis I
Power Electronics Design
Power System Analysis
Power System Dynamics and Protection
Computer-Aided Design in Power Systems
Other Courses:
Revit Training – Bob Bell: SPARLING
Intermediate Programming Concepts and Tools
Advanced Technical Writing and Oral Presentation
Introduction to Microeconomics
Fundamentals of Materials Science
Probability and Statistics in Engineering and Science