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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Directed development of the Exyn Nexys product line to enable Exyn's industry leading autonomy and mapping capabilities• Coordinated $1M+ product development project across internal engineering and product teams, contracted engineering support, contract manufacturing, and network of vendors and suppliers• Led the Hardware and Systems team consisting of up to 6 mid-senior Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical and Platform Engineers • Contributed high-level mechanical designs for high impact system components

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

- Lead efforts to develop hardware solutions to deploy exynAI onto drone platforms- Support cutting edge research and development- Analyze customer requirements and identify innovative solutions- Oversee the technical data package and transition to production- Manage project deliverables against key deadlines and strategic objectives- Transition advanced prototypes into production and coordinate fabrication and assembly with partner vendors

- Transition prototype hardware to production level designs- Integrate latest developments is sensor technology, including LIDAR, Time-of-Flight, cameras computer vision, and inertial sensors.- Support internal Robotics Research and Development initiatives

- Directed all robotics initiatives at 5E Robotics including Connect, Dash, Budgee, Nannybot, and VirtualRep product lines.- Applied Agile project management methodologies to coordinate efforts across multi-disciplinary team- Designed custom robotic products and variants to suit new customer requirements and applications.- Identified product roadmaps and coordinated technical support for all tasks.- Developed novel solutions to challenging robotic problems such as path planning, obstacle detection and avoidance, mapping, and navigation.- Lead mechanical and electrical engineering efforts on all hardware designs.- Integrated robotic platforms and sensors with the ROS environment.- Managed vendor relationships with domestics and overseas suppliers to ensure on-schedule delivery of key components.- Developed product launch plan, prepared white papers and marketing materials, and coordinated briefings and demonstrations.

- Lead robotics engineer for Five Elements Robotics’ internal research and development efforts. - Developed “Dash” robotic shopping cart and “Budgee” shopping assitant robot including mechanical and electrical design, development of test plans and design for manufacturing.- Provided oversight to product testing including FCC and CE agency certification.- Sourced key components from both domestic and foreign vendors. - Utilized state of the art rapid prototyping and 3D printing to reduce development time and cost- Designed the patented “Follow-Me” algorithm and sesnor hardware for the Budgee robot. - Designed “Erek” prototype outdoor robotics research and development platform.- Implemented software for perception, planning, navigation, and mapping within the ROS environment.- Developed novel computer vision algorithms for stereo image processing.- Submitted conference research papers to the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronic and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Wall Township, Nj, Us

Lead Engineer for Future Skies' advanced research and development efforts in Robotics. Initiatives include advanced image processing, stereo vision, navigation, and human robot interaction.

- Lead project engineer for Picatinny Optical Detection System (PODS).- Developed the PODS 2.1 electronics design, coordinated with the software team to meet functional requirements, and interfaced with the mechanical design team to optimize packaging.- Lead electrical engineer for the ARDEC Smart Sight

- Directed research efforts to develop and transition Battle Command software services to plan and manage multiple, teamed air and ground unmanned systems.- Built relationships with Army acquisition programs of record, industry, academia, and other Army organizations to establish partnerships, identify customer needs, analyze requirements and specify program objectives.- Managed contracts through statements of work, performance work statements, monitoring task progress, and evaluating technical performance.- Served as robotic and unmanned vehicles subject matter expert within CERDEC Command and Control Directorate.- Implemented an image processing tool suite for the C2ORE Scout UGV to provide functionality such as image segmentation, feature detection, image fusion, and object tracking.- Attended the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge as a CERDEC representative to evaluate and identify technologies of interest to the C2ORE program.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering