Experience

Torc Robotics

• United States
• Truck Transportation
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  - requirements, architecture, specification for self-driving truck

• Systems Engineer / Test Safety Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  - requirements, architecture, specification for self-driving truck - operational safety for on-road self-driving vehicle testing

• Product Owner, Test Safety; acting Technical Product Director, Safety and Mission Assurance

  • Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

  - safety and quality for on-road self-driving vehicles

• Senior Operational Safety Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2021

  - safety for on-road self-driving vehicles

• Testing Lead, On-Road Self-Driving

  • Aug 2017 - Jan 2020

  - lead testing for small fleet of on-road self-driving vehicles (planning, training, execution, reporting, analysis, and associated tools and processes) - spearhead prep and execution of high profile VIP demonstrations of on-road self-driving vehicles - oversee team of test engineers responsible for test plans, test execution, test reporting, test scheduling, test processes, test-related software, release management for demonstration software

• Safety Lead, On-Road Self-Driving

  • Feb 2017 - Jan 2020

  - lead safety efforts for on-road self-driving vehicles - responsible for ensuring on-road self-driving division prioritizes and executes on safety - establish and enforce safety and testing protocols, training, and safety culture

• Technical Project Lead

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2017

  - oversee team of software engineers responsible for system integration, infrastructure, configuration, testing, vehicle control, payload integration - technical leadership of interdisciplinary project teams - technical alignment of infrastructure-level and system integration software/processes across multiple projects

• Robotics Engineer

  • Jan 2007 - Mar 2015

  - core developer for DARPA Urban Challenge Team VictorTango - software design/development/testing for robotic vehicles - technical leadership of interdisciplinary project teams - technical alignment of infrastructure-level and system integration software/processes across multiple projects - focus areas: interprocess communication, health monitoring, logging and replay, behaviors, payload integration, vehicle platform interface, system integration



Virginia Tech

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

  - Virginia Tech Unmanned Systems Lab - Virginia Tech Unmanned Systems Lab



AREVA NP

• France
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NDE Tooling Engineer

  • Jan 2004 - Dec 2004

  - mechanical design (incl. pneumatics) for robots to perform safety inspections inside nuclear reactors - NDE = non-destructive examination - mechanical design (incl. pneumatics) for robots to perform safety inspections inside nuclear reactors - NDE = non-destructive examination