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Principal Opto-Mechancial Engineer @ Raydiance, Inc. Responsible for leading the concept development of the mechanical component and systems design, integration, and test activities for commercialization of the next generation of Raydiance's ultra-short pulse laser system. Key member of a small interdisciplinary R&D team developing fiber-based infrared laser systems.Accomplishments • Promoted to Mechanical Design Manager• Implemented design changes...

Principal Opto-Mechancial Engineer @ Raydiance, Inc. Responsible for leading the concept development of the mechanical component and systems design, integration, and test activities for commercialization of the next generation of Raydiance's ultra-short pulse laser system. Key member of a small interdisciplinary R&D team developing fiber-based infrared laser systems.Accomplishments • Promoted to Mechanical Design Manager• Implemented design changes that reduced transient beam pointing to previously unachievable levels• Successfully generated proof of concept models for next generation laser with designs that meet stringent customer requirements for cost, performance, reliability and service• Generated glass process thermal and stress analysis to support the development of laser cutting parameters From October 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 6 months) Petaluma, CAOperations Manager/Senior Systems Engineer @ Raytheon Solipsys System Engineer for Modular Command Post product lineUsed Solid Works to design deployable infrastructure for battlefield awareness including military radios, GPS systems, advanced situational awareness software and satellite communications. -Integrated, tested, and fielded systems overseas-Generated documentation, procedures, and training materials-Trained operational crews -Participated in field events on many occasions to perform an assessment of fielded systems and to ensure that the Solipsys designs have met customer expectations.-Supported Ballistic Missile Defense tests for the Pacific Missile Range Facility. -Supported Military exercises in Continental US, South Korea, and Thailand From March 2001 to March 2005 (4 years 1 month) Kauai HIMechanical Design Supervisor, Principal Professional Staff @ The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Mechanical Design Supervisor, Technical Services DepartmentManagement--Manage team of technical staff--Responsible for mentoring and performance appraisalsTechnical--Demonstrate experience, knowledge, and leadership related to research development for instrumentation, optics, space, military, and biomedical applications. --Use Solid works to design and analyze instruments and assemblies.--Help develop innovative technology and approaches.--Design and carry out experiments.--Participates in multiple projects, completes assignments on time and within budgetary constraints. --Work with vendors to specify components, procure parts, and develop cost estimates.Project Management--Perform technical planning, system specifications, and interface definition. Apply structured approaches to define customer requirements. --Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, assist with resource allocation. --Lead quality initiatives related to process development, documentation, and adherence to required standards.Business Development--Identify areas for funding opportunities. --Lead business and proposal development initiatives. --Contribute to technical proposals, business development. --Participate in building customer relationships.Other--Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communications skills. --Work effectively in a multi-cultural environment with staff (at all levels), vendors, consultants, and business partners. --Demonstrate excellent organizational skills.--Demonstrate the ability to work independently without supervision, and to work as a team lead to utilize and instill utilization of a structured approach to solving problems. From June 1990 to February 2001 (10 years 9 months) Principal Engineer @ Arcturus UAV, Inc Petaluma, California, United StatesEngineering Manager @ Airbnb Helping to create a world where one day you can feel like you're home anywhere & not in a home, but truly home, where you belong. From November 2019 to July 2020 (9 months) San Francisco, CAMechanical Engineering Manager @ Kairos Power Helping to enable the world's transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting environment. From December 2018 to November 2019 (1 year) Alameda, CASenior Mechanical Engineering Manager @ Enphase Energy July 2018 Enphase is delivering affordable grid independence to the masses. Enphase’s product for forming microgrids will be a game-changer. Accomplishments• Promoted to Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager• Launched first plastic injection molded micro-inverter enclosure, then new iterations yearly• Commercialized all the necessary ancillary products needed for the full system, including connectors, cables, communication enclosures, and mounting brackets• Drove root cause analysis to solve new product introduction (NPI) test failures related to design errors, material characteristics, contaminants, process control, stress, thermal management, moisture ingress, supplier quality problems• Grew the mechanical group to include a team in India to augment US and New Zealand teams. • Learned world class cost reduction techniques from new managementOur most challenging product development cycle to date has been the one month rapid development of a system to demonstrate battery storage for either on grid or off grid operation for key photo-voltaic panel suppliers at the end of May. The next step currently in progress is to take the learning from the demo to prototype a working system packaged to validate the esthetic design and functional features for an Investor day show in mid August. Our final goal is to have the units installed in early customer sites by the end of the year. The whole system includes incremental improvement to the micro-inverter, a new battery storage system with an extensible architecture, and wall mounted enclosures for monitoring and communication electronics. This system could not be achieved without leveraging all the hard work, problem solving, team building, innovation and lessons learned that the team is building upon. It has been a wild ride, but it will all be worth it when the first families that have been without power in Puerto Rico since the hurricanes have reliable power again because of our efforts. From March 2015 to December 2018 (3 years 10 months) Petaluma, CAPrincipal R&D Engineer @ Medtronic Transcatheter Aortic Valve (TAV) catheter design lead. Responsible for developing next generation delivery system for aortic heart valve replacement including concept designs, prototype development, physician validation, final design, compliance data submission, manufacturing transfer, and first in human. Accomplishments• Generated a family of delivery system concepts with associated prototypes and test methods• Used prototypes to collect verification data in realistic simulation fixtures, physician demonstrations, and animal model deployments. • Effort culminated in the launch of smaller delivery system with greater positioning precision that reduces health issues related to minimally invasive heart valve replacement surgery. From April 2010 to June 2013 (3 years 3 months) Santa Rosa, CaProgram Manager @ Oceanit 2005-2008 HANDS Program ManagerGlobal network of ground based optical sensors for deep space tracking and orbit determination. Accomplishments• Grew Maui site from 6 to 45 technicians, engineers and scientists in less than one year• Successfully executed a five year, 50M dollar Small Business Innovative Research phase 3 project for deploying low cost telescopes around the world for space situational awareness. • Successfully designed and manufactures the telescope systems in a captive machine shop on Maui• Used lean techniques to rapidly develop hardware and software for customer validation• Solved problems related to science, engineering and management issues • Project culminated successfully with the installed systems providing control, hand-off coordination, and data collection from deployed telescopes covering the full 360 degree equatorial band.• Data collected has been used to monitor debris to make NASA launches safer and to protect militarily space based assets From March 2005 to April 2010 (5 years 2 months)