Lauren Hohnholt

Résumé

Engineering with a creative signal.

Senior Electrical Engineering student and IEEE officer with 2+ years of workplace experience, blending analytical engineering fundamentals with creative problem solving. Passionate musician with skills in circuit design, hardware assembly, and troubleshooting through independent audio electronics projects, including building custom guitar effects pedals.

Work & audio

Sales Associate

Marshalls

  • Maintain organization and cleanliness of the women's department to support efficient merchandising and customer experience.
  • Handle cash, credit, and returns with high accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
  • Collaborate with team members to manage high customer traffic during peak hours.

Worship Team Audio & Musician

I Am Church

  • Configure in-ear monitoring systems, digital mixers, microphones, and stage equipment for one weekly worship service.
  • Perform level balancing with digital audio workstations and microphones to deliver uninterrupted worship services.
  • Perform featured violin and keyboard accompaniment for weekly worship services attended by 50-150 people.

Leadership & community

Publicity and Multimedia Officer

IEEE

  • Spearheaded digital marketing and social media campaigns to boost branch engagement and event turnout.
  • Managed core online platforms, website updates, and member communications across the organization.
  • Captured and curated high-quality photo and multimedia archives to showcase branch events and history.

Bringing People Together

Friends across campus and beyond

  • Takes the initiative to turn “we should get together” into an actual plan, coordinating dates, invitations, logistics, and supplies.
  • Hosts tea parties that bring the girls back together when they are home on breaks from colleges in different places.
  • Recently organized a camping trip to Glenwood, New Mexico, to hike the Catwalk—complete with travel plans, a supply list, and an unexpected lesson for the boys whose improperly rigged tent cover gave them a little rainwater bath.

Academic projects

Bacterial Incubator

Engineered a yogurt incubator using dual microcontrollers, UART communication, and PWM-driven thermal regulation to maintain precise fermentation temperatures. Integrating ADC thermistor sensing and relay control for automated thermal regulation.

Guitar Fuzz Pedal

Designed and soldered a custom analog fuzz effect pedal featuring transistor-based clipping, true-bypass switching, and clean PCB component layout within a shielded enclosure. Validated audio signal integrity and minimized background noise through iterative bench testing and live audio evaluation.