Employment
2016–2018; 2020–present
Power-conversion architecture, product engineering, system leadership, and technical business development.
- Led system-engineering work across power electronics, control, safety, EMC, simulation, validation, and product interfaces.
- Built and developed a multidisciplinary organization while making technical decisions and ownership more reviewable.
- Moved into technical business development for AI-data-center and BESS power-conversion opportunities.
Related projects: pyPLECS
Applied power-electronics and systems teaching grounded in industrial development practice.
- Taught power-electronics and systems topics through the connection between models, hardware, and validation evidence.
- Translated industrial constraints into material students could inspect and reuse.
Quantitative modeling, Python data systems, cloud infrastructure, and technical teaching.
- Built Python screeners, gamma-exposure and term-structure workflows, and supporting AWS data infrastructure.
- Started the technical side from zero — data infrastructure, automation, and engineering practice — while helping recruit and coordinate technical work.
- Moved to specialist quantitative ownership as the organization grew and the technical scope divided.
Related projects: Rosetta framework
Specialist engineering support at the boundary between components and power-electronics applications.
- Connected component behavior with application-level operating conditions and design decisions.
- Produced bounded technical analysis suitable for review without publishing client-confidential detail.
Employment and research
2018–2020
Applied research and technology transfer in energy systems and power electronics.
- Developed and validated energy-system concepts through simulation, electronics, embedded control, and laboratory work.
- Connected academic methods with industry-facing prototypes and technology-transfer constraints.
- Reused numerical tooling and automation to make engineering evidence easier to reproduce.
Related projects: py2femm
UPS power electronics, regulatory qualification, laboratory validation, and new-product introduction.
- Developed and validated single-phase and three-phase UPS power-conversion systems.
- Led new-product introduction across international voltage, frequency, CE, and UL constraints.
- Explored new technical routes when architecture or qualification work reached a bottleneck.
A focused electronics consulting engagement during the transition from freelance to industrial product development.
- Applied embedded-electronics and instrumentation experience to a bounded client assignment.
- Preserved a generic record while client-specific implementation details remain private.
Electro-optical ranging, northfinding electronics, embedded systems, automated tests, and patented invention.
- Developed and validated laser-range-finder transmitter, receiver, and motherboard/control electronics.
- Developed digital-compass and northfinding electronics with test methods for observable system behavior.
- Supported FPGA image-processing and automated-test systems, contributing to three distance-measurement patents.
Freelance consulting
2010–2013
Embedded electronics and power conversion for multimedia, automation, lighting, and energy measurement.
- Developed ARM- and MSP430-based electronics for automation, multimedia, and energy-measurement applications.
- Worked across PFC, lighting, power-over-Ethernet, UPS, and battery-powered product constraints.
Low-power embedded control and energy harvesting for gas-pipeline valve systems.
- Developed an eight-bit microcontroller motor-control path for pipeline-valve applications.
- Explored thermal and RF energy-harvesting power conversion under severe energy constraints.
Connected embedded systems for home automation, energy monitoring, and video-terminal feasibility.
- Built PIC32 web-server, Ethernet, and USB functions for connected automation products.
- Evaluated embedded-video terminal architectures and energy-monitoring applications.
Research spanning RFID, low-noise optical electronics, robotics, GaN characterization, and FPGA signal processing.
- Developed digital organic-electronics concepts for RFID and ultra-low-noise circuits for optical applications.
- Built embedded robotic and GaN thermal-characterization systems for industry-facing research.
- Implemented FPGA baseband predistortion work that became a peer-reviewed publication.
Instrument design joining craft, CNC manufacturing, acoustics, electronics, and self-built automation.
- Designed stringed-instrument parts in Rhino3D and programmed CNC manufacturing through Mastercam.
- Built and characterized pickups using hands-on winding, waxing, and frequency-response measurement.
- Repurposed inkjet-printer mechanics, optical sensing, and a PIC controller into a closed-loop pickup-winding rig.