Mechanical Engineer (and System Integration Engineer, Engineering Manager)

I’m a: Husband, father, engineer, musician, and a concerned citizen about preserving the health of Earth’s environment and the health of democracy in our nation.

Born and raised in Palo Alto, CA.

Education:

Attended: Greendell, Nixon, Terman and Gunn.

Undergraduate: Duke University, Bachelors of Science in Engineering

Graduate School: Stanford University, Masters of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Career:

Mechanical Engineer. Ford Aerospace. Designed deployment mechanisms for commercial satellites.

Solar Array hold down and release system for GOES I, J, K weather satellites.

Edge Innovations. Animatronic Special Effects for the movies. Mechanical Engineer. Designed mechanisms for full-sized and 1⁄3 size killer whales, and full-sized dolphins. Underwater servo motors, eyes, blowholes & tongues mechanisms.

D2M, Inc. Product Design Consulting company. Mechanical Engineer and manager. Designed a wide range of products from toys, tools, locks, precision laser-levels, to a high-precision alignment station for photonics waveguides.

Hansen Medical. Telerobotic Cardiac catheter manipulation system. Mechanical Engineer. Worked on Physicians console and input device to remotely control manipulator for cardiac catheters.

Tesla Motors. Electric Vehicles and charging systems. Mechanical Engineer, System Integration Engineer, Manager of 12v Systems and Integration, Manager of Systems Integration and Validation. Tesla Roadster, Model S, Model 3 electric vehicle programs. Responsible for vehicle system functional integration and validation.

Skydio, Inc. Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, aka drones. Product Engineer. Design of

camera stabilization systems including isolation systems, motors and actuators.