Career Timeline
Agtonomy
2021-02-01 -
Head of Software
Physicalfarm agents that automate the complete growing lifecycle from continuous data collection, predictive analytics and automated physical labor actions in agriculture and land maintenance. The farm of the future starts with highly intelligent machines.Postmates (acquired by Uber)
2018-04-01 - 2021-01-31
Systems & Robotics Lead
Last mile logistics delivery robots for urban and suburban markets.area17
2016-02-01 - 2018-02-15
Principal Engineer
Indoor navigation and autonomy solutions for robotics and mappingPRENAV
2015-02-28 - 2016-01-31
Control Systems Engineer
Robotic systems architecture and design, GNC/autopilot development including fault- tolerant control methods & autonomous operation, and real-time planning of multi-rotor UAV platforms for autonomous infrastructure inspection. Efforts focus on localization via a strategic combination of inertial, laser and vision sensors and nonlinear control strategies to achieve centimeter accurate navigation in GNS-denied environments using both custom flight software and a customized PX4 stack. Additional contributions in execution autonomy, failure state detection and robustness, mechanical design, systems-level integration, vehicle design, and cross-functional project management.AeroCine
2014-11-30 - 2015-06-30
Engineering Consultant
Systems architecture, control design and implementation of a fully-stabilized 3-axis camera gimbal and heavy-lift 8-rotor UAV used in the commercial film industry. Accomplishments include gimbal electrical/control architecture and establishing vehicle system-level design including component/material selection, control architecture, path planning, system autonomy and health monitoring. The UAV / gimbal system was the first to carry an autonomously stabilized ARRI Alexa camera.Sols Systems
2014-06-30 - 2014-12-31
Senior R&D Engineer
Developed fully automated parametric solid model generation of 3d printed custom orthotics using python-based geometry libraries, scaled server design and integration, and web-based server api tools (flask, redis, celery). Algorithm-based design practices for scalable custom manufacturing, FEA / structural analysis/experimentation of 3d-printed materials, mechanism design and fabrication of apparatus for testing material stress and fatigue of 3d printed materials, contributions to computer vision applications using homography-based reconstruction.Bluefin Robotics
2012-12-31 - 2014-06-30
Systems Engineer
Lead control systems engineer, developed dynamic system models for simulation studies for Bluefin autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), developed and implemented control system architecture for several classes of underwater vehicles, sensor selection and algorithm design for GPS/DVL-based INS, completed in-water control acceptance testing and validation, assisted with autonomy / path planning capabilities, provided computational fluid dynamics analysis for hydrodynamic recommendations to mechanical and systems-level design decisions, was the technical lead for pipeline tracking system integration (requirements, scheduling, cost, interface documentation, traceability) and technical lead systems engineer for business development proposals (including federal government bidding) for unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and other robotic marine platforms.University of Florida
2006-05-31 - 2012-12-31
PhD Research Assistant
Developed Lyapunov-based control techniques for a wide range of nonlinear systems. Research efforts combined adaptive techniques with robust methods to compensate for system uncertainties and unmodeled disturbances. Research focused on time-delayed nonlinear systems and systems with actuation saturation constraints as well as algorithms for monocular camera systems which provide real-time pose and velocity estimation for use in navigation and control.Honeywell
2006-05-31 - 2006-08-31
Mechanical Engineering Intern
Worked with a mechanical engineering team to design and maintain guidance and navigation applications for military vehicles. Investigated design changes for failures in hermetically sealed guidance housings. Researched material choices for electronic packaging in hostile environments. Provided insight to design choices for F-35 guidance package. Completed thermal, force, stress, vibration, material, and tolerance analysis and calculation for multiple guidance packaging solutions for flight and aerospace vehicle contracts.Raymond James Financial Inc.
2003-05-31 - 2005-08-31
Information Technology Intern
Assisted clients with general information technology support. Walked clients through VPN installation and use. Provided general Microsoft Windows troubleshooting via phone and remote management support. Designed/Programmed/Installed custom workspaces for broker stock trading software throughout company.Beginning!