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Tualatin, Oregon, United States

Louisville, Colorado, United States

I work at AquaHydrex which is a startup company developing next generation water electrolysis for producing Green Hydrogen.Promoted to VP level and continued leading the engineering team with additional results:1. Implemented Critical Chain Project Management within the company utilizing key consultant to further grow product development capabilities and monitoring of projects.2. Developed engineering budget to support multi-year plan and worked with key stakeholders to implement and manage. 3. Created initiative for Design for Reliability by researching and onboarding consultants and hiring reliability engineer to focus on key risk items and setup testing via HALT, ALT, and reliability growth measurement.4. Began creating operations team to support initial pilot manufacturing by hiring manufacturing and supplier quality engineers and ensuring processes meet goals for the current stage.

Louisville, Colorado, United States

I lead engineering from concept through feasibility and into commercialization by implementing some key initiatives:1. Changed the focus and performance of the team from making a prototype work to robust production design by implementing project management, robust optimization, and goals-oriented deliverables.2. Greatly reduced risk and improved robust design by de-coupling key system level functions to manageable workstreams. This was done by parallel path efforts in test development platforms to optimize components and sub-assemblies separately with little impact on other system functions.3. Conceived and aligned key stakeholders around improved product size and configuration to better position the company for performance, risk reduction, and cost.4. Reduced risk and time to market by identifying a controls system risk and changing from custom embedded controls to PLC. Risk of change was reduced with new hires and outsourcing the development with expert local partners.

Missoula, Montana Area

Design and development services company providing concept through production solutions. We serve a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, renewable energy, aerospace, automated equipment, consumer products and computer peripherals. We can assist with mechanical, electrical, or controls projects with proven experience in project and business management.

Missoula, Montana Area

Startup company designing and developing grid scale flow batteries for energy storage. Novel, low cost, and safe technology to provide energy and power capabilities for use with wind and solar.1. Member of executive staff with responsibilities for R&D, engineering, and project deployment.2. Responsible for all fiscal, staffing, product requirements, and technology road-maps to meet company goals and objectives.3. Establish and lead a successful team of 30 engineers and technicians consisting of mechanical, electrical, controls, systems, chemists, physicists, and project managers.

1. Lead technology development including core battery design, custom embedded controls, and system level integration from concept through production release.2. Define product requirements that meet company goals for performance and cost.3. Influence cross-functional teams including product marketing, production, and R&D on new technologies and product launches.4. Implement and maintain design processes and tools including: CAD, PDM, ECN, design review/phase gate to improve overall efficiency and reduce design risks.5. Create requirements for facilities upgrades for test systems and engineering space to ensure support of development goals.

1. Managed design and development of battery, control systems, and system integration and testing.2. Recruit and led a technical team of mechanical, electrical, controls, and manufacturing engineers and technicians.3. Project management using Waterfall methodologies.4. Designs included overall battery stack and system design, custom circuit design for battery management system, software development for battery control and database management, and overall system architecture. 5. Managed definition and procurement of in-house test systems including facilities support.

Engineering firm to provide mechanical design, analysis, and project management. Provided services to several industries including semiconductor equipment, aerospace ground support equipment, airline interiors and consumer products. Clients included; Lam Research, Lockheed Martin, GE, and Applied Materials.• Manage customer contracts and project definition.• Designed slurry cooling and delivery system for wafer dicing equipment.• Project lead for design/development of chemical fluid delivery system to be integrated into OEM equipment for semiconductor equipment. Provided management of resources and interface between sub-contractor and OEM equipment supplier along with overall project management.• Wet processing chamber design for new proprietary technology for single wafer process. Provided complete chamber design to integrate within an existing platform.• Analysis and motion studies for multiple projects including; heat exchangers, airline interior video arms and tray tables, forms for wing fabrication process, interference analysis, payload positioning.• Managed a team of 3 engineers providing engineering support to the Atlas V ground support equipment design group. Designed umbilicals and completed detailed part/assembly and installation drawings. Supported the design of booms and counterweight systems.

Manufacturer of equipment for processing semiconductor wafers including acid and solvent tools for cleaning and copper plating tools. Included both single wafer and batch processing equipment.• Responsible for managing the mechanical design and development of new process capabilities along with production support of existing equipment including chamber and fluid delivery systems.• Designed CapsuleTM process chamber for side selectable processing of wafers. This included backside and bevel etch cleaning of metals and oxides. This process chamber was an enabling technology and positioned the company in new markets.• Managed a team of 3 engineers and a mechanical technician.

Startup company that developed and manufactured a combination 3.5” floppy and quarter inch tape drive. Designed a shuttle mechanism utilizing progressive die stampings and injection molded plastic parts.

(was Colorado Memory Systems)Manufacturer of quarter inch tape drives for data backup on personal computers and workstations. Team leader and design engineer for a precision read/write head positioning system in a one-inch high tape drive.

Manufacturer of consumer products for oral hygiene, shower and bath, water filtration, and air filtration markets. Responsible for design and implementation of hydraulic valving used in a reverse osmosis water filtration product using injection molded plastics.