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Portola Valley, Ca

Paramit is a medical device contract manufacturer, and I implemented process optimizations to increase efficiency and decrease user errors while conforming to regulatory requirements.• Designed & implemented manufacturing cell equipment• Wrote manufacturing process instructions• Ensured the creation of electronic Device History Records (DHRs)• Gave feedback to customers to optimize their designs for manufacturability (DFM)

San Francisco Bay Area

BLINKY.SHOES is a psychedelic, dynamic LED strip to light up your shoes, for dancing at festivals such as Burning Man. Conceived of by a group of five friends, we raised $20k on Kickstarter. We successfully delivered units to customers under budget. The product consisted of a sewn vinyl cover over off-the-shelf light diffusing materials, and LED strips driven by a custom PCB.• Owned the mechanical design and entire manufacturing process• Singlehandedly located and drove overseas suppliers, including an electronics CM and soft goodsmanufacturers through two production runs• Managed the design process, from user needfinding, prototyping, user testing, ramp to production, andmanufacture

Seattle, Wa

HashPlex provides bitcoin miner hosting services. I designed supporting mechanical and electrical components and drove manufacturers for final products that exactly fit our needs.• Designed, evaluated, and drove manufacturers for server storage rack system and custom PDUs, optimizing for cost• Made hiring decisions for datacenter technicians• Managed day-to-day operations for a 1MW datacenter

San Francisco Bay Area

A startup introducing a wireless node to create Do-It-Yourself connectivity for Internet Of Things devices. Allows consumer and industrial users to sense, monitor, and control devices over the Internet.● Created Solidworks models to design product housing and test fixtures; investigated and implemented manufacturing and packaging options● Sourced parts & components from domestic and international vendors● Performed market viability research and competitive analysis

Designed deployable field structures, conducted end customer testing, investigated field failures, determined root manufacturing causes. Proposed, designed and deployed multiple solutions including: • Rapid design and development of CAD-based solutions in partnership with manufacture; assembled and deployed final structure • Responsible for investigating, documenting, proposing solutions to manufacturing issues.

Machined parts and executed quality control. Developed proficiency in milling (manual and ProtoTrak), turning, precision measurement, and geometric tolerancing. Summer job, repeated over three summers.

Bs, Product Design

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