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Inventor-founder, chief tinkerer, and builder of useful things that occasionally hum
San Francisco Bay Area
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Principal Systems EngineerThunderbolt FieldworksMay 2011 - July 2014
- Led cross-functional failure analysis after field incidents and translated findings into hardware, firmware, service, and training improvements.
- Built test fixtures and acceptance criteria that made prototype and production builds less dependent on heroic individual memory.
- Partnered with operations to qualify suppliers and document manufacturing changes without losing traceability or anyone's sanity.
Electrical EngineerThe Department of Useful GadgetsJuly 2006 - May 2008
- Created practical diagnostic tools and service documentation for field technicians who needed answers before the weather changed.
- Learned that repairability, cost, and user reality deserve equal seats at the engineering table.
Core capabilities
The unglamorous work that makes things real
- Supplier qualification: checks whether suppliers can make the part, support the part, and recognize the part in a hurry.
- Manufacturing readiness: prepares designs, fixtures, instructions, and checks for the moment prototypes have to grow up.
- Customer discovery: listens for the useful problem behind the first request, especially when it arrives in all caps.
- Failure analysis: follows evidence across hardware, software, process, and assumptions until the story becomes actionable.
- Writing down what happened: leaves a record future teammates can use without summoning the original author from vacation.
Skills and tools
Making the room smarter
- Technical writing: creates technical narratives, decision records, and field guides people can actually use.
- Hiring and mentoring: helps engineers grow their judgment, not just their collection of approval-seeking calendar invites.
- Facilitation: designs conversations that make room for evidence, dissent, and the quiet expert near the back wall.
- Investor diligence: prepares practical technical materials for people who need to understand both the opportunity and the wiring.
- Partnership negotiation: finds agreements that respect technical reality, customer needs, and the fact that everyone brought a lawyer.
Selected projects
The Very Serious Power Box
Rover McRoverface Inspection Platform
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