Derek Herbert Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Leading and working on all things hardware related - supply chain, reliability, design, manufacturing - to bring Tidal's AI driven robotics solutions to the aquaculture industry and beyond.

Mountain View, California, United States

Working to make ocean farming more sustainable!

-Design responsible for reliable, high performance (60kRPM+) turbomachine for steering flight vehicle - net 2x gain in mean useful life (100 days to 200+ days), helped enable longer mission duration. -Conceived and supervised development of key Loon IP (bearing preload conditioning and prognostics for fleet operations); resulted in two IDFs. Designed and implemented related critical line fixtures for 100% key performance metric (bearing preload tester) at vendor.-Responsible for research and strategy for compressor performance and reliability improvements (High altitude variants, Athermalized designs, Dual Compressor, Next Gen compressors). Managed development streams and processes for each of these.-Managed complex equipment vendors at technical and programmatic level. Wrote highly compartmentalized SOWs to iterate fast R&D work and amplify Loon’s design capabilities given limited people resources.-Oversaw Loon Internal Vendor; managed and coordinated daily activities.-Proposed high confidence based reliability methodology for safety based systems versus reliability growth model, a first on Loon. -People manager for the reliability team for 1.5 years; supported technically and professionally. Success in helping increase individuals impact and make career pivots (examples: co-op management and shift from test to design efforts).-Coordinated Loon resources across Bets (Waymo, X, Wing) via chamber and test coordination to make effective trades between teams. Fostered failure analysis sharing across Bets (Waymo and Wing)-Created, managed and supported Rel Database and Test Infrastructure (Grafana/InfluxDB)

San Jose

-Deploying low cost embedded systems solutions for instrumentation enabling rapid fixture development (AVR/Arduino and ARM uCs) -Introducing low cost, high throughput prototyping methods for design and test (3D Printing, Vacuum Forming, etc.)-Introducing new testing methods and technologies to accelerate and improve test methods (off the shelf instrumentation, standard fixture development, LabVIEW and C training for other Test Engineers)

-Developed new methods of rapid experimentation and analysis techniques for electromechanical systems to design improved products (HALT)-Used ANSYS to optimize mass-produced plastic pump parts -Integrated commercial testing techniques into medical device development process (IEC, ANSI, ASME test specifications)-Designed “phantom” tissue and equivalent circuits for RF ablative device testing (published abstract for ASME Biomedical Conference)-Solved design issues related to wireless interference for product using new analysis tools (RSA)-Researched, selected, and deployed in-house EMC test method using GTEM chamber-Prototyped numerous electromechanical fixtures critical in development process using knowledge of embedded systems and controllers (Labview, NI Vision, and PLCs)-Performed CFD analysis and eliminated fans in major camera product -Implemented combined DOE and FEA processes for rapid design iterations-Supervising Accelerated Testing capability development within the company (Mechanical HALT, EMC)

Primary Assignment: Development of New Antenna Systems and Design Methodology -Developed, designed, and built prototype engineering samples of new focus area technologies -Implemented new and more efficient analysis methodologies, tools, and material applications (FEA, DoE, Composites) -Conception and development of new intellectual property, methods, and research -Support launch of new products, solve manufacturing & production issues with analytically based engineering expertise

Designed and built test fixtures for Biomedical Ultrasound Lab. Designed and built prototype Ultrasound Elasticity Microscope-Measures elasticity of hyper-elastic materials, specifically in-vivo living tissue-Designed for use in corneal scanning prior to corrective laser eye surgery-Coauthored IEEE paper with results and analysis