Zachary Fearnside Email & Phone Number

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham, Nc, Us

Led $XX MM+ product and engineering innovation + operations for the physical products division of Get Spiffy.Core Responsibilities:- Lead a team of up to 7 design staff & ~5 operations contractors - Mentor and develop a diverse staff of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams with educations ranging from associate's degrees to PhDs.- Set technical direction on 7 product families.- Determine new product opportunities through customer discovery. Design, deploy, and test these markets and opportunities.Team Accomplishments:- Re-engineered a product to extend lifespan 10x+ and reduce COGs by over 65%- Scaled a product manufacturing line from 100 units /week to 5000 units/week- Awarded 2+ patents with more pending on novel technologiesProduct Categories:- Computer Vision- Automotive Tools + Vehicle Design- Power + Battery Systems- Automation + IoT

Raleigh-Durham, Nc, Us

Raleigh-Durham, Nc, Us

Raleigh-Durham, Nc, Us

Acquired in December 2023- Cofounded Aeva Labs and led the company from ideation to execution in 10+ customers.- Product owner / product manager for the ‘aeva process’ and ‘aeva equipment.’ - Patent holder for ‘rapid aging’ process.- Led hardware, firmware, and software engineering team.- Solutions Architect during sales process- Designed wireframes for UI using Figma.- Designed PCBs, enclosure, framing, thermal management, reactors, and sensing systems.- Managed supply chain, payroll, equipment installations into customer sites, maintenance operations, and payroll.

ASSIST strives to improve technology in the healthcare sector, particularly that which deals with wearable sensors. Our research group is primarily investigating novel thin-film creation techniques using pulsed laser deposition. As an assistant to a PhD student at NC State University, I oversee the develop of a MATLAB based application that controls temperature controllers, motors, vacuum pumps, and a multi-MW laser that allows the researcher to easily manipulate variables and see their effects.

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

Sensus is focused on engaging the utility market in an entirely new manner with advanced metering technologies. As an intern in the radio-frequency communications engineering department at Sensus, a majority of time is spent performing hardware debugging, component characterization, and product assembly. Skills used includes Altium, ADS, soldering, analog electronics, and RF.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Sandia National Laboratories is a research institute for the Department of Energy. While working at this company, a majority of my time was spent in automated testing technologies using MATLAB and researching novel electrical field effects with varying metals.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering And Computer Engineering

Natural Science