Personal objective: Working with awesome teams to develop world changing technology solutions which revolutionize industries and improve the quality of life on earth.

My story to date:

   In my youth, I was always in the garage taking apart my toys and putting them back together. Then finding ways to build my dreams.  I started building electric go carts in middle school. 

     In high school I joined a robotics team. My junior year I learned everything I could about mechanics, the nature of the competitions and what went on in the team. I recognized that our team was limited into areas. First our 30 person team needed a stronger frame work of management and delegation to be more effective and efficient. Second our shop which was a legacy from the 70s badly needed to be retrofitted to improve the quality of our product. At the end of my junior year I was elected by my peers to be a co-captain. During the summer I organized a crew to work nights and weekends to clean out the shop an retro fit the tools. With my co-captain we rewrote the industrial technology curriculum to be team and project based. All the hard work paid off. We received a national ranking of 4th place of 600. 

 I was restless in my late teens. I wanted to work in industry at the time. I became an apprentice of product design. I was lucky enough to find a job at Ideo. I worked in numerous departments with many great people. I learned everything I could about products design. I was especially focused in the engineering areas. Sitting at the feet of the great minds in product design I learned volumes and at night I read their engineering textbooks hey kept on their their desks.

    After almost 4 years at Ideo it was time for me to go out and see the world. For six months I traveled through Singapore, Shanghai, Tokyo, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. I settled in New York. For the better part of 2004-2005. I freelanced in Manhattan with many amazing architects, lighting designers, several product designers and a few manufacturing firms. I learned a lot about different employers, fields, industries, and cultures. 

  I became excited about going to college. I enrolled at a community college in the bay area to complete my general educational requirements and a year later transferred to SF State University.  While attending university I continued working as a contractor/freelancer for several firms in the bay area and even started a few entrepreneurial ventures.

    In 2004 I developed a line of furniture designed to be fabricated out of sheets of plywood with no waist material. The design for the coffee table was the feature of an article in Make Magazine's 9th issue. I exhibited the furniture at the 2006 makers faire where it was picked up by Simplified Building Concepts. I discontinued the line when Simplified building concepts was purchased. I learned a lot about marketing products and matching marketing data with the design and manufacturing capabilities.

    In the summers of 2005 and 2006 I was contracted to work as an engineer and researcher at Xerox PARC and worked in the hardware systems lab. My research covered developing technology for: solar power, industrial processes for producing micron scale wires, bio-defense, and high speed industrial printing press's.
  One especially fun project anecdote from my time at PARC; I worked on a project with two post doc researchers from Germany. They were developing an extrusion system to manufacture micron scale wires for a solid state energy project. They had this problem with their  extrusion nozzles getting clogged up. I designed and developed and tested a several solutions including acid baths, ultrasonic baths, temperature shifts and lastly increasing the pressure in the system. I invited them over to watch the best solution I found. Their eyes popped out of their heads when showed them that I had plumbed their delicate and expensive ($5k-a-pop) custom precision nozzles into a cheap pressure washer I grabbed at homedepot. I turn the machine on and first all the goop clogged up in the nozzles oozed out, and then water shot forth from 100mm^2 nozzle for 30 ft. They jumped up and down with excitement then they ran to their lab to grab more nozzles for me to clean.
  The realization that they should be using higher pressure in their system meant they could extrude the fluid in a more laminar stream at a faster flow rate which would create better results in production. This realization came from me playing around and experimenting with their system.

In 2007 I devised a way to make origami out of plastic. This was exhibited at the 2007 makers faire. The beauty of folded plastic acrylic is in the vastness of it's functionality. It can be used as lamp covers, furniture and a varriety of architectural application. I am still developing and improving the technology. The latest iteration involves high performance composite materials.

     I studied electronics and product development in the Design and Industry department at SFSU and graduated in may 2009. While there I joined IDSA's student chapter and was nominated for the student merit award for my light switch storage concept.

 For my senior research project I studied the market for, designed and prototyped a 3d printer which was radically lower in cost than current models on the market. I spent a year refining the design of this machine and and pursuing a possible production prototype. I am still very interested in this technology but do not have the resources presently to attack it on my own.

   I've been a member of the black rock city community for several years and am the executive director of a growing theme camp. We have dozens members who are proud and radical participants in this unique arts festival.

 I spent the summer of 2009 building art and working for meaning. I built a community of actors and performers and contributed to community of sculptors. All the while I was looking deeper into what makes me tick. What I have come up with is this:

I love working with teams of inspiring people to develop disruptive technologies solution that revolutionize industries and change the world.

so here is what all of that looks like on a one page CV