Peter Ford Email & Phone Number

“Hit me with knowledge”. I not only want to bring and feed my passion for learning more and new experiences to a new job but want to share them as well. I’m not looking for a paycheck, I’m looking for amazing teams to work with and challenging, world improving, problems to solve.Above are some reasons I’ve developed into a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ engineer, explorer and more.As a kid, periodically in my father’s basement machine shop, learning bits and pieces of technologies and skills from him. With my mother learning computer skills as she was learning programing – when there were few woman programmers.In my teens I crawled through junkyards upgrading my car, following my hunches about how car companies design and assemble their cars to simplify version production - my hunches turned out correct. I also learned the trick for tuning a 12-cylinder, 6 carburetor Jaguar XJS engine – I’m sure this will be handy during an apocalypse.In college I successfully applied for one of the few co-op positions at ‘the local’ nuclear power plant, Maine Yankee. I specifically applied there to gain career experience in a singularly unique place. And yes, at times worked in Containment and saw the core’s Cherenkov glow.At the Boston Museum of Science, I pursued a Technical Designer position as I figured correctly that it’s a mix of exploring science and engineering at the intersection of people and the technology (on many levels).Over the years I’ve collaborated with a world of dynamic people and organizations in and out of the Museum, in technology, society and economic domains, from nano to industrial scales.I was selected for the team that create the industry redefining Star Wars exhibit, then again with Pixar exhibit and almost with Indiana Jones IP.I greatly increased the breadth of my multi-discipline (hardware to software) engineering and fabrication skills, expanding creative and problem-solving cognitive tools, within a variety of project management levels. Simultaneously and self-driven I’m modernizing the museum’s fabrication and software design capabilities and creating targeted training for my peers.Outside of work I’m in a mix of projects: aesthetic, functional and product. Thinking about the next adventure. What Halloween, X-mas and/or Cosplay outfit might need to be created. Increasing knowledge of marketing, IP protections, investing and what this winter will be like – I love snowboarding.So if you have a project that needs an engineer that isn’t standing still, constantly expanding skills and looking for new challenges then we should talk.

Listed skills include Exhibit Design.

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  University Of Maine

  Electrical Engineering Technology