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Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City Area, Mexico

San Francisco Bay Area

First employee, brought on to lead the product, design, and engineering teams. Oversaw the research, development, and release of all products - B2C and B2B. Responsible for recruiting and on-boarding employees for all three teams. Worked directly with sales and account management teams to craft successful strategies for customer acquisition and retention.

Palo Alto

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Third year Ph.D. candidate investigating the role of virtual reality in consumer preference modeling. Created an interactive virtual reality environment and methodology to capture and model experiential preference for a product. Applied methodology to successfully capture preference for products at varying scales.

Lexington, Ma

Assigned to investigate the viability of alternative materials, developed test methods to characterize critical material properties, compared results from current and alternative materials, concluded that alternate material met all requirements and endorsed design change, resulting in an 80% reduction of materials cost. Modified existing processes and designed fixtures to allow alternative materials to be incorporated into product, trained manufacturing staff to create devices using alternate… Show more Assigned to investigate the viability of alternative materials, developed test methods to characterize critical material properties, compared results from current and alternative materials, concluded that alternate material met all requirements and endorsed design change, resulting in an 80% reduction of materials cost. Modified existing processes and designed fixtures to allow alternative materials to be incorporated into product, trained manufacturing staff to create devices using alternate materials. Show less

In charge in increasing Occidental College's presence on social networking websites such as Twitter, Ning, and Facebook. The first admitted students page had 30,000 pageviews and 5,000 visits. Occidental College received a record number of applicants after these websites were established.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Hired as one of five college student leaders of the Solar Cup program, created and led workshops teaching high-school students engineering fundamentals, provided feedback for teams designing full-size solar powered boats, helping high-school students, many from under-represented minorities groups, learn about engineering and apply their knowledge to build and race boats.

Philadelphia

Awarded SUNFEST fellowship in the Electrical and Systems Engineering department of the University of Pennsylvania, created models of MEMS resonators to investigate novel designs, analyzed the effect of tether dimensions on quality factor and resonant frequency, and identified tether dimensions for minimal energy loss.

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. Candidate in the Integrated Design Innovation Group at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Jon Cagan.

Masters, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelors, Physics

Activities and Societies: Occidental College Glee Club, Solar Cup, Cadence, Hillel, Cafe Norris. Director of the student led a cappella.