My passion for hardware started in a hangar in La Verne, CA while I was still finishing high school — fabricating instrument panels and installing autopilots and wiring harnesses at an avionics shop. I did that for four years before going back to school and earning a degree in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University.
I spent the next decade in electronics packaging, space vehicle architecture, and quantum computing. Having been the person assembling someone else's design, I bring machinists and technicians into my process early and expect them to push back.
I still build things with my own hands. I've restored a van and built a CNC'd sliding door hinge I sold to an owners' community. Most recently, I rebuilt a sailboat and captained it 4,500 miles through the open ocean.
I held a Top Secret/SCI clearance with SAP access and a polygraph, since lapsed.
Looking for design, build, manufacturing, and integration work. The best way to reach me is email.
Rebuilt every major subsystem of a 31-ft sailboat — structure, repower, electrical, plumbing, rigging — to a standard intended to survive a multi-year offshore voyage. Then sailed it roughly 4,500 nautical miles up and down the US East Coast, through the Bahamas and onto Guatemala via the notorious Windward Passage and Jamaica.
Cross-functional technical SME on trapped-ion quantum computing systems, spanning analysis, design, test, manufacturing, and supply chain. Championed metal additive manufacturing for UHV/XHV applications. Worked alongside PhD atomic physicists and systems engineers.
Design, analysis, test, and system-level architecture. Used DMLS to cut part count 95% on a space vehicle boom tip assembly. Designed and built offloader for deployable boom. Selected for the True Blue leadership program.
Grew from individual contributor to leading an interdisciplinary team of up to 20 engineers and technicians at a $250K weekly burn rate, developing mission-critical hardware. Secured $100K+ in funding for and mentored a student-led team competing in Red Bull Flugtag Boston.
Developed a modular, extensible electronics packaging architecture for panel-mounted multi-function avionics displays, de-risking the critical interfaces from concept through first prototype. Ran DO-160 environmental qualification.
Fabricated aircraft instrument panels and wiring harnesses. Installed and troubleshot avionics and autopilots, diagnosing faults down to the component level. Structural sheet metal work and riveting doublers to airframes.
Honors B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2015
Graduate coursework, Mechanical Engineering, 2016–2017
Spacecraft Systems and Methods — issued February 2024
Draper, VP of Engineering, 2017
Heat Transfer Engineering, 37(11), 956–971, 2016