Who I Am
I am currently Associate Director of Hardware at BioLite in Brooklyn, NY.
I was born in Quebec, grew up near Seattle, and completed my undergraduate and graduate education at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Despite my present-day expertise, my oldest roots are in robotics and machine design. I still find occasion to fire up Solidworks once in a while.
I like tea, foggy weather, and board games - or anything that involves understanding a system and working within it to create the best outcome.
What I Do
I identify as a generalist, yet have deep and valuable experience in the consumer products space - especially portable and desktop-size devices.
My bread and butter is complete design of PCBAs: architecture, schematic capture, layout, testing, and design transfer to contract manufacturers.
I also write firmware for many microcontroller families. My favorite are ARM chips from ST or Microchip and Espressif BLE/WiFi SoCs.
I am a frequent publisher of product development process tools. I enjoy removing obstacles for my colleagues and leverage Python and database systems to streamline and standardize ways of working.
Check out my resume or freelance services pages for more details.
Where I've Been
I have worked on 30+ unique products or programs.
I have released well over 100 boards over the course of these programs.
And due to the low-cost consumer nature of my work, my designs are inside over a million units in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
I owe my success to a string of fertile environments and generous mentors:
FIRST Robotics at Ithaca High School
The Creative Machines Lab at Cornell
Internships with BAE Systems, Proctor & Gamble, and Empire Robotics
Startup engineering experience at littleBits and BioLite
The diverse teams and ideas I’ve encountered over the course of growing my freelance business