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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Managed two mechanical engineering teams at this unicorn startup focused on home electrification. The main product is a residential energy storage battery system. The managed teams focused on designing the 9.6kW inverter as well as the aesthetic, award-winning enclosure. Hired as one of the first 5 employees at the company and helped to build the mechanical engineering org at the company.

Burlingame, California, Us

Director for the mechanical engineering team. Report directly to the CEO. Responsible for design and manufacturing of all hardware at the company including the mechatronic drive-by-wire system, sensor suite (lidars, cameras, and radars), compute, patented adaptive robotic cargo system, and the stock vehicle itself. Responsible for team growth/hiring, project management, schedule planning, sales proposals, and cross functional team communication. Individual contributor on the design of mechanisms, machined parts, and sheet metal.

Foster City, California, Us

Lead engineer in the Advanced Hardware Engineering group. Led cross functional project which included industrial designers and engineers from within optics, exterior lighting, wire harnesses, and sensors. Responsible for the integration of lidars, cameras, and proprietary sensors. Performed detailed design of a backup compute with associated heat sink enclosure and a video frame grabber board with cold plate.Designed injection molded aesthetic optical enclosures, aluminum die cast brackets, injection molded mounts, machined parts, 3D printed prototypes, and sheet metal brackets. Created GD&T drawings, build support, onsite Asian vendor support, thermal analysis, static and modal FEA, coatings, project management, BOMs, and technical guidance to other engineers.

Austin, Texas, Us

Skilled designer and team technical lead who designed and brought into full mass production two long range HV electric vehicle battery packs, one EV DC fast charge handle, and three liquid cooled high density stationary storage batteries.Drove product architecture and design direction. Generated schedules and cost estimates, facilitated cross functional team collaboration, guided other engineers/interns, managed vendors and BOMs. Provided technical expertise, designed parts and assemblies utilizing 3D CAD. Built prototypes, sourced parts, produced mechanical drawings, and oversaw validation/reliability testing. Supported production ramp up and mass production at Tesla Fremont and Gigafactory Nevada, performed quality inspections, and ran finite element analysis.Select Products:Tesla Powerwall 1.0 (6.4 kWh) and 2.0 (13.5 kWh) – residential stationary storage batteriesTesla SuperPack (400 kWh) – industrial and commercial stationary storage batteryTesla Rest of World Super Charger Handle - 120kw DC fast charge handleMercedes Benz B-Class EV Battery Pack (36 kWh)Toyota Rav4 EV Battery Pack (41.8 kWh)

San Jose, California, Us

Senior engineer, project manager, and technical lead. Led numerous products from concept through production hand-off. Expertly managed relationships with clients and vendors. Effectively collaborated with industrial designers and other engineers. Supported client sales meetings. Generated proposals, schedules, and budgets. Led Speck thermal analysis group and acted as company IT lead. Completed 45+ projects in the fields of consumer, industrial, medical, and telecommunications, with many projects leading to multi-million dollar repeat business.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Mechanical engineer responsible for mechanism design for various spacecraft at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Developed a deployable and fully retractable electro-mechanical structure to hold a flexible sheet. Created initial concept, scaled working prototype, and produced full sized 1⁄4 acre working prototype.

Mechanical manufacturing engineer for several high mix RF and microwave signal source manufacturing lines. Primary mechanical engineer for a new product introduction. Designed assembly and ergonomic tooling.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering