Help turn self-driving cars into a reality.

* Member of Google's internal management consulting team supporting senior Google executives * Lead cross functional project teams to solve strategic business problems and drive operational initiatives that contribute to the company's growth in new and existing businesses* Collaborate closely with company leaders from product management, engineering, sales, marketing, and finance* Experience working with product areas includes: Google Cloud Platform, Google Apps/Gmail for Business, Google Offers, Mobile Ads, Google Analytics, AdWords and Display Ads, Search, and Google's Self-Driving Car & Google[x]

* Lead and develop teams of 2-4 full-time consultants and research staff, guide overall study direction, coordinate daily activities, provide practical problem-solving leadership, create and present compelling communications, and manage junior and senior client relationships* Extensive experience serving energy clients: wind and other renewable energies; merchant electric power generation and marketing/trading; electric power transmission and distribution; final distribution equipment; and North American upstream oil and gas* Also supported clients in Aerospace/Defense, biotechnology/biochemical, petrochemical, environmental services and construction* Overall functional focus in strategy, risk/corporate finance and operations

* PhD in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Control and Dynamical Systems; Thesis title Managing Information in Networked and Multi-Agent Control Systems.* Researched topics in the areas of: networked control systems, hierarchical consensus, game theory, receding horizon control for spacecraft guidance and navigation during hypersonic planetary entry, electric power pricing dynamics, autonomous robotics navigation algorithms, insect flight navigation, and decoding analog time dependent signals from spike trains for use in neural prosthetics* Teacher’s Assistant for year-long Spacecraft System Engineering course* Won Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship and California Institute of Technology Engineering and Applied Science Division Fellowship

* Part of the Precision Systems Group supporting research in X-ray optics* Designed and implemented a control system for a two-axis lathe with arcsecond precision* Created a metrology system to generate roughness profiles of optical glass with micron accuracy

* Worked in Command and Control Subsystem unit developing hardware/software to meet control requirements* Projects included: developing a star tracker based control algorithm; analyzing spacecraft nutation dynamics, creating momentum budgets; testing flight software units; flowing requirements, revising subsystem specifications and creating hardware unit user guides