Joe Tedesco Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, CA

• Developing instrumentation and mechanisms for spacecrafts using CAD software
• Responsible for design packages, fabrication and assembly of deployable mechanisms such as booms, antennas of various materials, and mortars
• Responsible for Quality Assurance and vendor auditing
• Establishes and maintains Safety / Mission Assurance procedures and controls for company products and services
• Train and manage employees, of various disciplines, on cleanrooms/machine shop/mechanical practices
• Facilities Manager / Safety Coordinator

• CAD design and fabrication of complex engineering components for MCP imaging detectors for three government & commercial satellite projects in orbit around Earth and Mars (2020)
• Lead Engineer for the design of multiple high resolution neutron and photon detectors used at facilities around the world including LBNL, SLAC, LANL, INL, JPARC and ORNL
• Supervising and training multiple Engineers and Research Scientists to work in coordination with our team
• Vibration, thermal and vacuum environmental testing of hardware to establish performance standards
• Author of engineering documentation and procedures to support EAG's various ground and flight based operations
• Serve as EAG's safety coordinator and liaison to the SSL safety committee

• Design and analysis of high resolution photon detector hardware with CAD software, for government flight projects in collaboration with engineers from different disciplines
• Lead Engineer for the design of high resolution neutron imaging detectors
• Supervising and training multiple Engineers and Research Scientists to work in coordination with our team
• Responsible for design validation for multiple research proposals
• Author of engineering documentation and procedures to support the group’s operation
• Serve as the only non-manager Engineering representative in UCB SSL Engineering Coordinating Committee, which is responsible for UCB SSL engineering talent and future engineering endeavors

• Developed mechanisms for manipulation and transportation devices inside UHV
• Assisted lead engineer in design work for various photon counting detector projects
• Author and manager of an internal part database for the EAG group
• Co-supervisor in managing Engineering Aids

• Sustained and updated clean rooms
• Assisted in the design work of a photon counting detector assembly
• Refurbished and assembled vacuum chambers

Berkeley, CA

• Training of lab personnel, students and others who work in the lab
• Development of general departmental safety information and procedures for use in labs minimize exposure to all chemicals
• Achieve and maintain worker safety and regulatory compliance within labs according to OSHA and UC Berkeley EH&S standards
• Establish proper identification, safe storage, handling, accumulation and disposal of hazardous chemical waste

• Maintained and upgraded HV systems for precision optical filters for biomedical instruments
• Proposed and built components in AutoCAD / SolidWorks to improve production
• Built relationships with multiple part vendors

• Taught engineering fundamentals to classes of 10 to 30 students (elementary to middle school)
• Developed unique exercises to illustrate general engineering/physics concepts