Greater Boston
MIT-educated, multi-disciplined engineer with an academic background in mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and computer science followed by extensive experience in product development and manufacturing. Passionate about innovative technologies and seeing products succeed. SKILLS • Embed MBSE artifact-oriented practices into program or product lifecycle. • Clarify complex, interdisciplinary problems through logic and analytical thinking rooted in mathematical and physics training. • Coordinate projects and programs with globally distributed teams and shifting priorities. • Collaborate with diverse groups, applying sound scientific and management principles for hands-on technical leadership. =NASCENT TECH = • Eagerly approach new projects, quickly getting up to speed in almost any field. • Ask critical questions to help stymied design teams find solutions. • Inspire teams to innovate through determination combined with optimism, inquisitiveness, and openness. • Ensure projects have resources needed to progress. • Manage interface between academia and industry, helping navigate IP transfer and potential translation issues. • Communicate complex and abstract technical ideas to a broad profile of stakeholders. • Sought by leaders to catalyze new insights about technology applications and markets. =MATURE TECH = • Develop and maintain quality metrics. • Design experiments to isolate root causes associated with suppliers, manufacturers, end-users, and software, electrical, and mechanical components. • Deliver data and advise those responsible for program-wide cost/benefit decisions, managing subsequent containment strategies and efforts to sustain production schedules. • Initiate corrective and preventative actions, including updating manufacturing procedures, supplier approval processes, and recording engineering best practices and communication protocols. • Manage continuous multi-disciplinary design optimization and improvement program activities.
Engineering Leadership (Nascent Technology): Get engineering and design teams unstuck when moving breakthrough technologies from prototype to production. Introduce clear, structured systems engineering (MBSE) frameworks to streamline complex project lifecycles. Use sharp analytical logic—backed by a foundational background in math and physics—to break down interdisciplinary technical roadblocks while actively mentoring junior engineers. Innovation-to-Market Translation: Manage the interface between academic labs (e.g., MIT) and industrial application, navigating IP transfer and potential translation issues. Communicate complex technical ideas to a broad profile of stakeholders—including corporate sponsors, researchers, and engineers—to catalyze new insights about technology applications and markets. Strategic Business Development: Drive growth through high-level proposal writing, grant acquisition, and financial management. Deliver data to advise those responsible for program-wide cost/benefit decisions, ensuring projects have the resources, containment strategies, and structural clarity needed to progress. Operational Rigor (Mature Technology): Facilitate smooth interfacing among globally distributed teams, developers, and prime contractors using strong attention to detail to prevent issues related to ambiguous contracts. Initiate corrective and preventative actions, including updating manufacturing procedures, supplier approval processes, and inter-disciplinary team communication protocols to sustain production schedules. Technical Problem Solving: Design experiments to isolate root causes associated with software, electrical, and mechanical components. Manage continuous multi-disciplinary design optimization and improvement program activities to maintain high-quality metrics across mature technology platforms.
Company’s “go-to” engineer for product failures in the field and manufacturing plant with responsibility for electrical designs for all global Home Entertainment products. • Saved the company millions of dollars through competent technical leadership to develop and achieve organization and programmatic objectives. • Closely managed subsystem suppliers to ensure product reliability, helping to resolve malfunctions and optimize design. • Three examples: (1) Severe, intermittent problem dismissed as manufacturing mistake • Devised a method to screen assembled and partially assembled products. • Pinpointed the root cause: a bill of material’s cost saving measure (harmful temperature dependence capacitance), coupled with a supplier quality issue (highly ground noise sensitive batch of microprocessors). • Directed software team to compensate for hardware failure, to salvage defective product in the field, thus reducing scrap while still meeting product delivery and quality constraints. • Managed fix in the field with purchasing team and with the supplier. • Developed new protocols for design and manufacturing to ensure future product quality. • Demonstrated technical leadership and design responsibility on fielded systems. (2) Products failed in new market • Analyzed failure reports, product designs and current testing practices, deducing the cause: high frequency signal sent out over the 50-60Hz power lines to regulate appliances (i.e., “ripple control” for load management). • Guided development teams to reengineer product and update global testing protocols. (3) Faulty manufacturing process • Recognized that factory was producing and shipping incorrect country-specific components for an unfamiliar, different product. • Led efforts to contain and resolve the issue that affected thousands of globally distributed, partially assembled and completed units. • Initiated new design and manufacturing protocols and quality metrics to identify non-conformance trends.
EMBED RECONFIGURABLE NODES IN HOUSES AND BRIDGES I designed the circuitry and code for a lightweight reconfigurable network and embedded these network nodes into switches and thermostats for Carrier HVAC systems and Otis elevators. Since each node was a web server, these networks operated without a central server keeping track of routing tables. As project manager, I coordinated technology transfer and activities between academic researchers and industry employees. BUILD A MYRIAD-NETWORK-MICROCONTROLLER I investigated designs for a new microcontroller, stemming from traditional hardware architectures, but designed to perform necessary computation at appropriate speeds to compute temporal and geo-spatial localization for a wide range of applications. SOFTWARE RADIO BASE STATION I designed both the software and hardware for a reconfigurable base station that received, sub-sampled, and demodulated a 1.89GHz GFSK 2.5Mbps signal. The transmitter integrated VLSI alpha prototype chips from MIT that had a higher performance than commercially available chips. The base station used circuit noise reduction and advanced signal-processing techniques to minimize the signal’s bit error rate. SWAMPED! WIRELESS SENSORED PLUSH TOY I designed the electronics of a wireless “sensored” plush toy and a base station. The toy became the tangible, iconic interface for directing autonomous animated characters- manipulating the toy allowed the user to influence the actions and feeling of the character. I worked closely with the software team during development and exhibition and subsequently published results in IBM Systems Journal and demonstrated the project at Siggraph. MULTIMODAL COMPACT WIRELESS SENSING PROJECT I debugged and redesigned the Expressive Footwear product, a multi-sensor dance sneaker that wirelessly broadcasted sensor data to a PC to be used by an athlete to improve performance, a doctor to diagnose or a dancer to control a dynamic musical stream.
BRAIN OPERA 1996 Member of team of artists, musicians, and scientists who created a multi-media interactive art experience for 1996 Internet World Expo, Lincoln Center (Summer 1996) and world tour; Expanded and maintained Netscape specific HTML/Java code, implemented a browser independent version; Functioned as a liaison between webmaster and graphic design team to facilitate the design process. Contributed to design and production of analog, digital circuits for Brain Opera.
MIT VI-A Intern. Mathematically modeled a Fourier Transform interferometer to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using it versus a grating spectrometer. A grating spectrometer diffracts the light onto a focal plane array while an interferometer performs a Fourier Transform on the light. The model consisted of six parts: a Detector Model, a Flux Model, an Instrument Line Shape Model, and Interferomogram Signal and Noise Model, a Spectrum Signal and Noise Model, and a Dynamic Range Model. The model took in atmospheric, optical, detector, electrical and configuration data, met sensitivity, spectral and special requirements of a grating spectrometer and produced NEAT, D*, NESR, SNR, and A/D parameters for comparison. Preliminary results showed that an Interferometer can match the performance of a grating spectrometer with fewer photo detectors and an increased data processing time.
MIT Vl-A Intern. 1. Researched design and physics of multiplexed HgCdTd photodetector arrays (Readout Integrated Circuits, ROIC) used in the AIRS sensor, a satellite-scanning instrument providing atmospheric temperature profiles. Pinpointed noise (1/f, white, thermal) sources, designed specific testing configurations, analyzed experimental data, modified computer noise model parameters and equations. Improved the ROIC noise models resulting in better Focal Plane Array performance. 2. Tested and characterized an IR focal plane array for use in ultrasonic imaging.