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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Providing consulting services to startups and large corporations to lead the engineering teams and advise senior management of the best strategies for translating their proof of concept or prototype into products that are manufacturable with good quality, are cost effective, and hit the market with the greatest speed possible.What is DFX? It's Design for "X" - Design for Manufacturability, Design for Test, Design for Assembly, Design for Quality, and so on.And what is Exa? Well it's a million million times better than Mega.Not afraid to get my hands dirty helping to bridge any gaps in the clients' engineering resources and skillset as they build their teams.Clients have included companies in automotive telemetry, connected health and fitness, industrial robotics, and smart agriculture. (Not all clients are listed in my LinkedIn experience.)

Boxborough, Massachusetts, Us

Providing engineering consulting and design services for a novel industrial robotics product and an image recognition and projection system.

New York, Us

Consulting to the team on electronic system architecture, and led the design of infotainment, motor drive and mood lighting electronic modules. Advised and worked directly on-site with their CM in Taiwan to streamline production and ensure complete and verifiable manufacturing test coverage.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Providing guidance and hands-on electronic design services for new telematics product.

Management and technical leadership of hardware and cross-functional engineering efforts for NTT Disruption's projects, including the Jibo social robot.Together with just one direct report, designed a new mainboard to retrofit into the existing Jibo social robot inventory to upgrade the processor, memories, wifi and Bluetooth. This involved benchmarking new processor solutions and wifi chipsets to select the components, electronic design, and management of outsourced PCB CAD to make the board a drop-in replacement interfacing with the peripherals (cameras, audio, display etc.), thermal evaluation and management of ME contractor to design and manufacture a custom heatsink, selection and management of a wifi antenna designer, prototyping the robot, certification testing and solving EMC issues, manufacturing partner selection, creative component sourcing including grey market, manufacturing test design and implementation, training the factory to debug failures and improve quality and yield, and selection and management of 3PL provider. In the end the robot with the new mainboard was in production and fully certified for US and Canada, with CE and UK CA marking also nearly complete.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Joulez is an early-stage social impact company focused on engaging girls aged 8-12 in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experiences to ultimately increase the number of women who pursue STEM careers. We are developing and testing the ideal fusion of fashion, crafts and electronic kits to expand STEM products beyond their traditional paradigm of robots, helicopters and rockets.My contribution was to help review and advise on technical strategy, and to assist with patent applications.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Leading the engineering teams responsible for creating the S1 shared electric scooter, deployed in LINK-branded fleets in both the US and Europe, incorporating class-leading satellite positioning, cellular communication, electric motor and battery management including innovative energy recovery technologies. Designed for safety first and with a strong focus on reliability and serviceability, our vehicles are designed from the ground up to be the vehicles of choice for ride-share operations.Player-manager in electronic/electrical, mechanical and software engineering functions from proof of concept and prototyping through to production ramp-up, on site in the Cambridge, MA development HQ and in factories in China. Currently there are more than 50,000 LINK scooters on the streets in 60+ cities.

Boston, Ma, Us

Jibo is the world's first social robot for the home.Joined Jibo on completion of Series A funding tasked with leading the hardware design and development. At first this meant a very hands-on role designing electronic circuits and reviewing those of external electronic and mechanical design partners. In time I recruited our own team of electronic and mechanical engineers and oversaw the development and validation from both a managerial and technical leadership position. I worked closely with the VP of Manufacturing and his team including supply chain and QA in a relentless drive to reduce cost and increase quality, and with the Software teams particularly Platform and other bottom-of-stack disciplines.I additionally took on the responsibility for all manufacturing NPI encompassing production line processes and test, requiring frequent visits to our contract manufacturer in China to achieve complete test coverage and ever improving yields.Jibo was on the front cover of Time Magazine as one of their Top 25 Innovations of 2017 and launched to the public in November 2017.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Technical leader and architect of various smartphone and tablet reference form factor designs and released products based on the NVIDIA Tegra application processor and Icera modem chipsets. NVIDIA-branded products included tablets and game console under the SHIELD and Tegra Note names. Additionally, customers using my team's hardware reference designs for tablets and smartphones include Asus, Google, HP, Toshiba, Microsoft, LG, Xiaomi, ZTE and Wiko.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Recruited and managed a team of engineers acting as consultants to customers, assisting them to develop high-speed mobile communication products using the Icera Adaptive Wireless chipset. Oversaw the hardware development of over 20 concurrently active customer products in North America, Europe and Asia including LTE/HSPA+/EDGE USB dongles, embedded modules and Android smartphones.