Worked closely with product managers to architect, build, and evaluate new technologies for emerging product categories in two PAs: Google Wearables, and Google Nest. Wearables
Technical lead on a patented textile capacitive touch interface for wearables, called I/O Braid. Responsible for concept development, schematic design, layout, firmware development, signal processing, and UI framework. Published findings in UIST 2018, received award for best demo at conference.Nest
Technical lead for NTI projects under Nest & Google Home product area. Responsible for leading engineering efforts across hardware and software teams to investigate pre-product technologies and definition of roadmaps for technology readiness. Responsible for translating user needs/requirements into hardware/software specifications, and ensuring that new technology integrations are validated by user research, aligned with product definition, and viable according to NPI timelines and technological readiness levels.Developed extensive expertise in the definition, creation, and collection of ground-truth datasets for ML model training across a wide spectrum of products, including audio input/output pipelines (AEC, hotword, speech recognition), biometrics for user identification and authentication, and gesture recognition. Experienced in using data to inform compute requirements for ML-driven software features.

ConsultingDeveloped custom software, electronics, and computational infrastructure for a variety of clients in a wide range of venues and media, including commissioned interactive installation art, boutique storefront installations, interactive multi-touch and tangible interfaces, and immersive museum experiences.Typical projects involve: architectural specification and design involving extensive collaboration with stakeholders and design/manufacturing partners, complete management of the electronics design and production lifecycle, software and firmware design and integration, often involving extremely demanding time constraints.Product DevelopmentRaised over $50,000 through Kickstarter to create, produce and deliver freeSoC, a microcontroller development kit based around the Cypress PSoC microcontroller platform. Designed two variants, each with a production run of 1000 units; oversaw manufacturing workflow; developed test and programming harnesses for production programming and testing. Managed and automated supply chain, including storefront, order fulfillment, and customer support. freeSoC is now licensed, made, and sold by Sparkfun.

Led technical direction for experiential advertising experiences and interactive art exhibits at a small creative agency.

Developed ZeroTouch, a high-performance optical multi-touch sensing technology. Received NSF I-Corps grant for commercializing ZeroTouch technology. Collaborated on design of several multi-touch, pen + touch, and free air applications around ZeroTouch. Also featured on Best Buy College Innovators commercial series, available here: https://vimeo.com/56742491