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• Experience with the implementation and operation of environmental testing including vibration, thermal vacuum, and deployments at temperature extremes

• 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• Serve as the only non-manager Engineering representative in SSL's Engineering Coordinating Committee, which is responsible for SSL's engineering talent and future engineering endeavors

• 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