Mechanical and architectural design and fabrication

Mechanical Engineer on HRR (High Resolution Recorder)Mechanical Engineer on Interceptors (control joysticks for flying the aircraft)

People Manager for mechanical engineers: one leading intrinsic and extrinsic sensor calibration hardware and the other designed long range radar system and sensor podMechanical Engineering lead for custom 905 nm short-range Lidar used on Nuro’s 2nd gen zero-occupant atonomous vehicle; designed mirror, motor assembly, optical assembly, and overall sensor packaging.Mechanical Engineering lead for custom compute used in Nuro’s 2nd gen zero-occupant autonomous vehicle; watercooled GPUs and motherboard, components shock and vibration isolation, thermals, sheet metal and mounting to vehicleInventor, Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Manager, and Program Manager for a new type of vehicle safety system that stops the forward motion of Nuro’s 3rd gen autonomous vehicle ~10x faster than the best available braking; works by firing two large alloy rams into the road and ripping the road to stop the vehicle; team used LS-Dyna, Hydrocode, and Solidworks Simulation

Mechanical engineer for custom 905 nm rotary Lidar for Uber’s passenger autonomous vehicles; optical assembly, motor assembly, rotary interface seals, packaging electronics, mounting to vehicle

Mechanical engineer for custom 1550 nm rotary Lidar for big rig autonomous vehicles; optical assembly, motor assembly, rotary interface seals, packaging electronics, mounting to vehicleOtto was acquired by Uber (summer 2016)

Google X - Design Kitchen. Mechanical engineer and prototyper on a variety of special projects in transportation, life sciences, VR, renewable energy, and global access to internet; Fresnel lens, wearables, robots to clean solar panels, laser gimbal assembly, feasibility studies for offshore fish farming

Google X - Project Loon. Mechanical engineer on balloon design, altitude control system, and automated launch infrastructure; impeller/motor assembly, umbrella valves, squibs, solenoid triggers, pneumatics, fabrics and high strength polymer fibers, large metal structure design, and launch team

Google - Street View. Mechanical engineer on sensors, compute, vehicle, manufacturing, and operations for Google Street View and Google Art Project; camera design, camera assembly design, lidar, HD video, encoders, chassis design, and custom compute design for automotive environment

Mechanical engineer for triboelectric sorting machine deployed in Nansha China plant

Researcher on tensile/torsion properties of Nitinol, bioactivity and mechanical properties of bioactive glass enameled to Ti-6Al-4V, and fracture toughness of the DEJ (dentin-enamel junction) in bovine teeth