Mechanical Design Engineer

With over a decade of design experience in system, component, and tool design, I have developed an aptitude for supporting healthy team dynamics and creativity. My experiences have instilled in me the values of good leadership that encourages and empowers others.

I strive to solve problems and design with enthusiastic creativity from the ideation stage downstream to all details of implementation. Having begun my career in woodworking, I continue to enjoy the opportunities to merge aesthetics with function and engineering- working alongside industrial designers and customers, and taking into consideration first impressions and the whole user experience.

I am known to bring innovative new ideas to the table and adapt quickly to new problem environments and constraints. I understand part manufacturing methods well enough to leverage them effectively in all my designs to maximize functionality.

I love the prototyping, iteration process that goes with product development and building with creative strategies that find the right balance of detail vs speed. I have experience with manufacturing tool design, cost sensitive products, hand held devices and semiconductor components.

I am versed in part fabrication processes of injection molding, sheet metal, spring forming, CNC, cables, thick film, and PCBs and I utilize good CAD practices, tolerancing, stress analysis, thermal evaluation, RF shielding, and robust verification testing to produce quality innovative products consumers can depend on

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Journey

Growing up with woodworking as the family business shaped my creativity early on. Starting out making swords, bows, and the occasional box (the childhood whims), I later began to love the art- the precise hand detail, the expression in curves and angles, and strategizing how a complex piece was going to come together.

When I signed up for engineering in university I didn’t quite know how I would engage in the art form I loved in engineering. But finding a world of product design has been an outlet for me to merge these two disciplines. Starting my career in Tektronix’s manufacturing tool design honed my design skills- providing technicians with hand tools that required ergonomics and adequate functionality for adoptability in a short design cycle. I had the space to experiment and learn what strategies and systems worked and what didn’t.

Once I transitioned to product design I had good foundational skills to engage on the front end customer interfaces, ID and UX. This is where I have enjoyed engineering the most. I enjoy listening to customers needs and exploring/discovering solutions that bring satisfaction