Employment

BRUSA Elektronik / BRUSA HyPower

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

Guest lecturing

HTWG Konstanz

2025–2026

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.

Consulting and quantitative analysis

MenthorQ

2021–present

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

Consulting

Vishay

Engagement recorded; detailed dates withheld

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

NTB Buchs

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

Employment

GE Critical Power

2013–2016

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.

Freelance

Stonex

2013

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.

Employment

Vectronix

2010–2013

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

Luminae

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.

Freelance

Pietro Fiorentini

2009–2010

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.

Freelance

Microsolution

2008–2011

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 and freelance project work

Politecnico di Torino

2008–2010

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.

Apprenticeship

Liuteria Marconi

2005–2006

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.