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Maple Valley, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Reliability validation and characterization of various engineering designs including cold chain shipping solutions for pharmaceuticals.
• Thermal validation and characterization.
• Warehouse and fulfillment logistics.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Managed a multi-disciplinary technical team integrating hardware design with machine vision and autonomous flight control to successfully retrieve a variety of objects in a diverse set of operating environments.
• Chief technical and strategic counsel for funding rounds with VC firms and investors, including expert knowledge on technological maturity and tractability of mission critical milestones.
• Designed, validated, and fabricated hardware including mechatronic end effectors forenvironmental clean up autonomous drones at a tech-heavy green engineering corporation.
• Developed evidence based MTCE carbon offset metrics related to product performance.
• Created a database of competitor patents and advised on internal patenting strategy.
• Managed risk proactively with a process informed by fundamental principles of risk analysis, reliability engineering, and prescriptive decision theory.

Palo Alto, CA

• Managed product risk for new vehicle programs, cost downs, supplier changes, and field failures and drove mitigating design changes to completion.
• Ownership of reliability for the Tesla Ventilator project during Covid-19.
• Developed and tuned thermal models to anticipate lifetime degradation of charging systems as a function of complex time histories.
• Led 6-axis vibration test lab to save $XX,XXX,XXX annually from service cost, re-manufacturing, shipping loss, unit cost, and manufacturing yield.
• Designed and implemented de-risk road maps including development of test specifications, thermal modeling, damage modeling, fleet data analysis, fault injection, test leg planning, materials research, DFMEA, PFMEA.
• Supported broad spectrum of design teams including electric drive units, high voltage battery packs, HVAC, seating, cockpit, glass, lighting, body in white, chassis, interiors, and more.

Palo Alto, CA

• Radiation oncology robotics design, test, and reliability.
• Worked with products of unparalleled complexity integrating particle accelerators, multi leaf collimators, bending magnets, Bragg curve and particle physics, and large format digital imaging modalities in order to.
• Developed novel solutions for transporting and installing multi-ton units in medical facilities not accessible by any maintained roads.
• Performed FEA to assess vibrational modes, critical stressors, and analysis of component wall deflection under vacuum fill processes.
• Designed tooling, wrote manufacturing instructions, performed tolerance stacks to validate system level designs, and owned metrological efforts including work performed on an optical comparator.
• "Black site" skunkworks project member of new product solutions team that resulted in the release of a revolutionary radiation oncology robotics platform providing unparalleled affordability and accessibility to.

• Early stage (less than 5 employees) critical contribution to a product that successfully navigated a $5.5M Series A funding round and $22.5M Series B funding round, and secured a deal with Amazon Fire TV
• Co-developed a multi-national video production house and team from scratch. Grew to establish regular shoots with high profile clients in London, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
• Produced content with over 2 million views for a single video on Youtube.
• Provided expertise in all areas of the production process including directing talent, sound design, storyboarding, camera operation, and editing
• Directed shoots with high profile yoga gurus and expert chefs to produce premium quality health and wellness content
• Established standards of operation for production team operating in multiple countries

Sunnyvale CA

• Private drum instruction with a focus on individualized practice plans
• Create personalized lessons based on the experience and goals of each student
• Construct weekly practice routines and assignments tailored to accelerate the pace of learning
• Transcribe popular songs by ear to sheet music so that students can play any song of their choosing
• Maintain an organized workspace and lesson schedule conducive to providing an enjoyable practice experience

Palo Alto, CA

• Designed a variety of head expanders and vibration test fixtures to support reliability test specifications
• Attained 30% weight reduction over a competing design from vendor while matching additional critical specifications
• Accelerated data mining process with creation of intelligent tools in excel including pivot tables
• Programmed and operated environmental chambers and electrodynamic shakers
• Worked with multiple suppliers to determine best solutions for data acquisition
• Made all parts to match internal standards for dimension and tolerance

Mountain View

• Semi-Private instruction for climbers ages 4-16 competing in statewide and national climbing competitions
• Facilitated regional YCL competitions for multiple youth climbing teams in the area
• Route setting for Bay Area climbing gyms

San Jose

• Sommelier's certification from The Court of Master Sommeliers
• Extracurricular commitments supporting the mentorship of new staff including knowledge prep for the Sommelier's certification examination
• Experience with all front of house positions including bartending and table side service

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.3/4.0

Activities and Societies: Placed in top 12% of Engineering class - Tau Beta Pi candidateMechanical Engineering with concentration in.

Education record

Math, Science, and Engineering Prep