Gerrit Coetzee's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Principal Mechanical Engineer @ Petcube From February 2018 to December 2018 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaContributing Writer @ Hackaday.com Author Wrote technical blog posts on a commissioned basis for a popular website (100,000+ unique visits a day) From 2009 to September 2012 (3 years) Undergraduate Researcher @ Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Tennessee Technological...

Principal Mechanical Engineer @ Petcube From February 2018 to December 2018 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaContributing Writer @ Hackaday.com Author Wrote technical blog posts on a commissioned basis for a popular website (100,000+ unique visits a day) From 2009 to September 2012 (3 years) Undergraduate Researcher @ Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at Tennessee Technological University Researched implementing topography algorithms for the active visualization of metal casting by use of a sensor network linked together by a Field Programmable Gate Array. Used C and Verilog to program FPGA and performed low level network programming. From May 2008 to August 2008 (4 months) Cookeville, TennesseeContract Engineer and Project Manager @ Freelance • Designed a ready-for-manufacture pet treat loading and launching mechanism.• Designed a premium waterproof Bluetooth Speaker and manufactured prototypes.• Consulted in lean best practices.• Designed assembly fixtures. From September 2015 to April 2017 (1 year 8 months) Louisville, KY, Paris, France, Bellingham, WA, San Francisco, CAUndergraduate Researcher @ Research Project at Tennessee Technological University • Worked as part of a two-person team to develop a house arrest ankle bracelet that could detect whether a user was driving.• Designed the housing for the test device. Prototyped it on personal CNC machine and cast the banding from urethane rubber.• Wrote all the datalogging and analysis scripts. From January 2010 to November 2010 (11 months) Cookeville, TennesseeFounder @ Stealth Machine Company Stealth Machine Company sells manufacturing capability as a service. We are redesigning subtractive machining from first principles to be robot first rather than the heavily peopled operation it is today. This allows us to cut parts 10x more efficiently than anyone else on the market. San Francisco Bay AreaContract Engineer and Project Manager @ Freelance With experience in everything from heavy industrial to IoT devices designed for mass production, I help my clients make good hardware decisions, deliver robust and cost-effective designs, and turn their business goals into real value for their customers with the minimum amount of of wasted effort. San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Project Manager and Lead Design Engineer @ Petcube I worked with an international team to accomplish robust mechanical designs for the lean, on-time manufacturing of Petcube's award winning product line. From the first napkin sketch to last product shipped, I worked hands-on with the team to deliver reliable and delightful products. From April 2017 to January 2018 (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaStaff Writer @ Hackaday Wrote original features, reviews, and articles for one of the world’s most popular tech blogs. Retained as guest writer. From January 2016 to July 2017 (1 year 7 months) Design Engineer @ WindStream Technologies • Performed Industrial, Mechanical, and Electrical Design in the Renewables Industry• Designed a new electrical generator assembly for manufacture. Worked from a theoretical design provided by a separate outside contractor to a manufacturable design. New design was cheaper to produce, faster to assemble, used significantly less magnets, self-aligning during assembly, more rugged, and a drop-in replacement for previous expensive motor design.• Inspected and improved paint and coating process to reduce field failures in high humidity and salt environments. • As part of Lean and Kaizen efforts, inspected, reviewed, and checked part and process on assembly line. Reworked entire drawing set for key mechanical components of current product. • Trained engineering team on new software, maintained team data, enforced better documentation processes, and communicated engineering team goals to C team. From September 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 1 month) North Vernon, IndianaDesign Engineer @ TubeMaster, Inc. • Performed Industrial, Mechanical, and Electrical Design in the Chemical Industry.• Headed over ten projects from concept to delivery. All equipment needed to survive extremely harsh environment (high electrical noise, used by unskilled labor, silver dust in air). • Designed two completely new methods of testing reactor tubes. Both concepts proven working.• Lead a project to completely revamp aging equipment with modern electronics and more durable materials. Downtime on jobs due to equipment failure reduced significantly as a direct result of my efforts.• Brought rapid prototyping techniques to engineering team and significantly shortened development cycles and cost.• Traveled to remote job locations. Acted as both a test engineer and crew supervisor. Managed and trained day crews of up to 40 people who did not always share a language to use sophisticated equipment in a dangerous environment to finish large test jobs.• Have never sustained an injury or received a safety citation on any job. From September 2012 to September 2014 (2 years 1 month) Louisville, Kentucky AreaContract Industrial Enginner @ Eagle Engineering • Performed the Industrial design for a commercial cannabis smoke detector. Created rapid prototypes for investor presentations on personal 3D printer.• Designed a ready for manufacture housing for a house arrest ankle bracelet. The bracelet could be unlocked with a key, but was otherwise unmodifiable by the user. From July 2012 to September 2012 (3 months) Cookeville, TNMarketing Assitant @ AAM Parts Pro • Performed sever administration, data entry, media creation, and automated repetitive tasks with console scripting. • Hand coded partspro.com and totaltruckcenters.com using PHP, Javascript, and MySQL. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) Johnson City, Tennessee Area