I’m an engineer with thirty-five years of experience designing elegant engineering solutions in areas as diverse as rocket & spacecraft avionics, autonomous vehicles for Earth and Mars and ultra-high resolution cameras for the motion picture industry. I’ve worked at SpaceX, Google and NASA/JPL with some of the most amazing engineers on the planet. I’ve designed hardware and software for use on Earth, the International Space Station, in orbit around Earth's moon, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter.At SpaceX I designed the fault-tolerant computer hardware and software architecture used to control the Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 & Falcon Heavy rockets. I also personally designed all of the computing and networking hardware used on these vehicles. This hardware is significantly more robust than the avionics typically used in aerospace, yet one to two orders of magnitude less expensive.At NASA/JPL I worked on the Galileo orbiter, Mars Pathfinder, Sojourner rover, Cassini orbiter, Mars Global Surveyor orbiter, Spirit and Opportunity rovers and the Curiosity rover projects. In 2005 I was given the job of leading the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division. My group was responsible for flight computers used on JPL flight missions as well as developing enabling technologies for those missions.In addition to designing spacecraft avionics, my interests also lie in the creation of advanced sensing and computing technologies for fully autonomous vehicles on Earth and beyond.