• Develop innovative modular solar thermal technology for generation and storage of reliable steam, power, and hydrogen fuel from conceptualization to design, testing, scaling, and deployment• Manage DOE-funded demonstration project and lead a multi-disciplinary team across different organizations, generate deliverables, and manage schedules, milestones, and stakeholders• Perform fit-for-purpose first-principal calculations, system, process, and control modeling, run simulation, and conduct feasibility studies, performance evaluation, optimization, techno-economic analysis • Lead the design and modeling of processes and key equipment including boilers, reactors, cycles, heat exchangers, storage vessels, solar equipment, and balance of plant, and manage vendors and EPCs.• Design mechanical products and equipment, execute testing at our demo facility and national lab, and conduct commissioning, data analysis to validate hypotheses, calibrate models, troubleshoot processes• Conduct technology down-select, feasibility studies, de-risking, and engineering due diligence in support of technology development, proposals, projects, pre-FEED, and FEED• Generate and review requirements, specifications, design basis, HMB, PFDs, P&IDs, control philosophy, and operating procedures, commission manual, and participate in HAZOP and FMEA• For a team of six, set goals, workflow, program roadmap, and procedures, lead budgeting, hiring, run meetings, and supervise and mentor junior engineers

Heliogen’s mission is to create the world’s first technology that can commercially replace fossil fuels in industrial processes with carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat from the sun and to transform sunlight into fuels, including hydrogen, at scale.

• Led RD&E projects and developed steam generation technologies and products to improve process efficiency and reliability from idea generation to technology implementation • Developed and ran in-house models, performed process and equipment design based on standards and codes, and interfaced with other business units, vendors, and customers • Served as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) providing domain expertise, developed standards and intellectual property, collaborated with research institutions, presented at conferences, and served on industry committees• Interfaced with other business units, vendors, and customers, provided engineering services to meet project scope, schedule, and budget, and generates deliverables such as reports, drawings, specifications, manuals, and guarantees• Conducted engineering activities including calculations, equipment specification, lab and field testing, inspection, troubleshooting, commissioning, and performed data analysis

• Led interdisciplinary R&D in a consortium funded by over 20 companies worldwide and collaborated with industrial leaders to develop technologies that improved chemical and energy recovery process• Conducted in-depth literature survey, experimental testing at temperatures, and first-principal modeling to investigate molten salt-water heat transfer, phase change, vapor explosion, smelt dissolution • Designed in AutoCAD, collaborated with fabrication shops to prototype and build experimental apparatus of various scales, and executed lab and field experiments• Developed numerical models from first principals, performed data analysis, validated models with experimental data, and formulated recommendations to set industry guidelines • Delivered presentations, published journal papers, contributed to patent development, and supervised young studentsThesis topic: Experimentation and Modeling of the interaction between molten salt and water in the chemical and energy recovery cycle

• Supported students in solving engineering problems and designing processes and equipment• Provided lab demonstration in bench- and pilot-scale facilities, and supervised student lab performance • Designed lecture and tutorial content and provided technical and administrative guidance to the studentsCourses: Plant Design, Transport Phenomena, Engineering Thermodynamics, Process Design and Unit Operation Lab, Thermochemistry Lab

Launched the PAPTAC Student Community, and organize events and activities that have involved over 140 students from 10 universities and institutions across Canada

Managed the executive team and organized activities to develop leadership skills for engineering graduate students

Recognized as the Startup Hub’s Mobile Gamification Competition Winner, Sustainable Design Award Finalist, and Global Social Venture Semi-Finalist