Leading a global team developing custom vehicles for Lime's shared micro mobility fleet.

Led a global team of mechanical, electrical, and systems engineers with offices in San Francisco, Mountain View, San Diego, Taipei, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. We were responsible for the development of Google Pixel Watches and several other wrist worn health trackers.

Joined Fitbit as their first hardware engineer. Initially responsible for all mechanical development and ultimately responsible for all hardware development (Mechanical, Electrical, and Systems Engineering). Built a high performing, empowered, mission driven team that delivered innovative health and fitness trackers. This team spanned offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Taipei, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Delivered a large array of Fitbit products: Ultra, Zip, One, Aria, Flex, Charge, Surge, Flyer, Blaze, Ionic, Versa, Sense.

Helping everyone in the world lead healthier lives.

Manage Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering development for Flip video camera products. Partner with world class industrial design and mechanical engineering firms to develop best in class products. Manage all aspects of product development to insure that the final product meets all cost, performance, and schedule targets. Verify that designs meet DFMA requirements for high volume mass production. Manage transfer of designs to manufacturing partners in Asia. Drive qualification and debug of part fabrication and product assembly.

Manage a mechanical engineering team that designs and develops PC cameras. Lead industrial design development in conjunction with Product Marketing team. Collaborate with world class industrial design firms to develop best in class product designs. Manage all aspects of product development to insure that the final product meets all cost, performance, and schedule targets. Oversee detailed part design and prototyping in an open, highly collaborative environment. Verify that designs meet DFMA requirements and can be smoothly transferred to Operations. Manage transfer of designs to manufacturing partners in Asia. Drive qualification and debug of part fabrication and product assembly. Conduct regular surveys of vendors throughout Asia to understand the maturity of emerging technologies in the area.

Lead mechanical design engineer for a range of web and digital still cameras. Served as technical lead for industrial design development of entire video product line. In conjunction with System Engineering team, defined product architecture and conducted feasibility studies for new technologies and design techniques. Created ProEngineer master model CAD from design surfaces. Performed detailed design in ProEngineer and verified designs using an iterative process of rapid prototyping and product testing. Delivered production ready CAD to manufacturing partners in Asia. Ran DFMA reviews with Logitech factory and partner vendors. Approved tooling designs and assembly instructions. Conducted hands-on debug of all issues that arose during manufacturing scale-up. Oversaw the design activities of ODM partners in Asia and approved their final designs and part samples.

Worked as internal product development consultant to 3M business divisions. Drafted proposals for internal “clients” which included budgets, timelines, and work breakdown. Managed projects to meet all design goals, schedule milestones and budget requirements. Project responsibilities included product concept generation, mechanical design, prototyping, performance testing, and manufacturing scale-up. Worked closely with 3M research labs to utilize the latest material technology in new product designs. Primary focus on thermoplastic part design with activities utilizing stereolithography, rubber/silicon prototyping, injection molding, and blow molding. Additional project activities included acoustics testing, electronics packaging, ultrasonic transducer design/testing, and photorendered animation of CAD design concepts.