David Ashton Email & Phone Number

Silverton, Or, Us

Canopii's mission is to build a more sustainable and resilient food system through smarter farming. To do so, we are developing robotic greenhouse farms that use cost-effective end-to-end labor automation and energy reduction systems to optimize local food production.Canopii is an Oregon company supported by ONAMI, Business Oregon, Elevate Capital, Ideaship, Vertuelab, and Willamette Valley Capital. In addition, Canopii has received a Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. At Canopii, I focus on mechanical engineering and product development, business development, and investor relations. We are a small but growing company. If you are interested in joining the team in Oregon, please message me.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Mechanical design firm specializing in product design and development. * Development and collaboration with multidisciplinary clients in industries ranging from AR/VR to semiconductor processing equipment * Extensive work with designing, building and validating custom test fixtures. Life-cycle, radio frequency, heating uniformity, and destruction testing apply* Low-volume iterative prototyping for functionality refinement using modern manufacturing methods. * Data acquisition through the application of strain gauges, thermocouples, and load cells * Modeling, assembly, and drafting in NX 11 and Solidworks * Company process improvements using ticketing systems though Wrike

Led a privately funded venture to automate a labor intensive processes within the hops industry. * Oversight of day-to-day operations including project scheduling and management, expense management and equipment procurement, and hiring and on-boarding* Conceptualized, designed, manufactured, tested and refined a mobile robotic system integrated with hydraulics, pneumatics and electronics * Established machine shop and office with necessary equipment and test rigs* Established vendors and subcontractors* Collaboration with patent attorneys in the conception of 5 pending patents

San Luis Obispo, Ca, Us

Utilization of Department of Water Resource metric data, in conjunction with Landsat imagery data, to identify land-use in California.*Organization, collaboration and independent problem solving to create useful land-use data for irrigation uniformity * Irrigation project focus (irrigation district modernization, water balances, river basin return flow issues, SCADA, canal automation, pump automation, flow measurement, energy consumption, and efficiency) * Landscape focus (primarily development of urban water conservation programs).

Bioresource And Agricultural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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