Experience

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  PA Consulting

  • San Francisco, California, United States

  • Engineering Director

    • Mar 2023 - Present
    • San Francisco, California, United States

    Leading teams and working to create novel engineering solutions to vexing business challenges at PA. Now that CP is fully integrated into PA, the same group of talented engineers is working more closely with people of a wide variety of skills on new challenges. PA does some truly amazing work, hi...

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  Cooper Perkins, Inc.

  • United States
  • Design Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Engineer

    • Dec 2014 - Present

    Cooper Perkins is a product engineering and technology development consulting firm specializing in the design of highly integrated electro-mechanical systems. Cooper Perkins' approach to identifying and characterizing innovation options results in effective and enlightened solutions to complex problems. I bring my proven history of developing consumer products for harsh environments to the CP team, which has the experience and expertise to solve your toughest problems and develop your most successful products.

  • Director of Engineering

    • Jan 2020 - May 2023

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  Light & Motion

  • United States
  • Sporting Goods Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Engineering Director

    • Apr 2011 - Nov 2014

    Directing multifunctional engineering team creating compact, extremely bright, finely crafted sports lighting for the bike, outdoor, and scuba markets. Responsible for all design aspects of the product life cycle from identification of market opportunities through prototyping, detailed design, outsourcing, and in-house manufacturing engineering. Driving effort to improve timely product launches of 3 dynamic product lines centered on ever-changing LED and battery systems, to improve testing and evaluation systems, and to consolidate electronics design to support many products with minimal new effort.

  • Design Engineer, Lead Design Engineer

    • Apr 2001 - Apr 2011

    Designed and created personal sports lighting equipment and SCUBA camera housings. Responsible for all aspects of product development from concept through prototyping, testing, and manufacturing. For many designs, designed and fabricated machined parts and injection molding tooling.

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  Pelican Design

  • Proprietor

    • Dec 1999 - Sep 2000

    Purveyor of fine leather journals and book covers.

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  US Navy

  • Naval Officer

    • Jul 1995 - Nov 1999

    Liaison to tactical aviators and small craft operators. Workcell supervisor and department head.