Salutatorian, National Merit Scholar Honorable Mention, Illinois State Scholar
President of the National Honor Society; French National Honor Society, Winner of the St. Augustine Speech Festival
Who\u2019s Who Among American High School Students
All-Ivy League for Indoor Track and Field (1989) \u2013 Brown University
All-State Track and Field (1987 4th Place in 3200m Relay State Championships); IHSA State Meet Qualifier in 1986
Catholic League Track and Field Champion (3200m Relay – 1987)
Member of 1985 Cross Country Team that placed 7th in the State Championships; Meet Qualifier (1984, 1985, 1986)
Co-Captain of Cross-Country Team (1986)
Frosh-Soph Catholic League City Champion for 1600m (1985 \u2013 Meet record) and for 3200m relay (1985)
Sc.B in Electrical Engineering with Honors, Brown University; Elected to Sigma Xi Research Society
M.S.E. in Computer Engineering, Princeton University; Recipient President\u2019s and GEM Masters Fellowships.
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech.
Recipient of the Georgia Tech Electrical Engineering Faculty Award
Recipient of the Georgia Tech President\u2019s, National Science Foundation and GTE Fellowships
Chair of the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Symposium
Serves on the Advisory Board of the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Recipient of Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award.
Founder and CEO of IvySys Technologies, LLC delivering exceptional software solutions for synthetic data generation, artificial intelligence, cloud engineering and data integration to defense, intelligence community, and homeland security customers. Author of over twenty technical journal and conference papers in signal processing, optimization, wireless networking, embedded system design, and rapid system prototyping. Served as the program manager for Special Operations Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance programs at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and as a technical subject matter expert for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Sponsor of the James A. and Wyndee P. DeBardelaben Scholarship Endowment as part of the Georgia Tech Promise scholarship fund that provides a debt-free degree to qualifying students from low-income Georgia families. Served as a mentor for the Georgia Tech Summer Undergraduate Packaging Research and Engineering Experience for Minorities (GT-SUPREEM) program for three years. Keynote Speaker at 2020 Comcast Black Engineers (BENgineers) Conference.
Mendel instilled in me the undying pursuit of excellence. Through both my academic and athletic experiences, I gained the mental toughness required to pursue excellence throughout my career. Now that I am leading a team and a business, I aim to inspire this same mental toughness in my staff members, motivating them to grind through a project and move forward as a unit. In doing this, I reflect back to my high school days when I ran on the track and cross-country teams. We wanted, collectively, to be the best runners, and we pushed each other every day. Even if we had one guy come in first and another come in 100th, we treated it as though the whole team had come in 100th. We ran as a pack, never leaving anyone behind, and this mindset stays with me today. During those long and arduous track and cross-country practices, our coach, Mike Garcia, used to say that, whenever one of us felt as though he had hit the runners\u2019 wall, he still had 33 percent left to give. I have since applied this philosophy to all areas of my life, using the formula to help me persevere even when I have felt most taxed. I have used this mindset to break through many \u201cwalls\u201d in my career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salutatorian, National Merit Scholar Honorable Mention, Illinois State ScholarPresident of the National Honor Society; French National Honor Society, Winner of the St. Augustine Speech FestivalWho\u2019s Who Among American High School StudentsAll-Ivy League for Indoor Track and Field (1989) \u2013 Brown UniversityAll-State Track and Field (1987 4th Place in 3200m Relay State Championships); IHSA State Meet Qualifier in 1986Catholic League Track … <\/p>\n