Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Tiger Fern provides advisor services for product and technology development, commercial strategy, and organizational design.

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Sep 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Senior Director, Engineering - Embedded Software & Installer Mobile Application, Hardware Test Engineering
• Own end-to-end embedded software running on the charging (EVSE) stations with multiple hardware boards running a variety of real-time operating system (RTOS) and Linux based software for home, commercial AC, and DC fast-chargers. Also lead the hardware test engineering organization overseeing development and deployment of test equipment for diagnostic testing at manufacturing facilities.
• Developed and built a completely new platform code base to support all chargers through shared code leading to easier scalability and faster time to market for current next-generation charging products
• Revamp and scale the organization to become a global entity, spanning three regions — North America, UK/Europe, and India; design and build a organizational structure, hire and mentor leaders and engineers
• Grew the organization to > 4x it’s size in ~3 years time to over 100
• Developed a first of its kind telemetry system for chargers; gathered data that is used to better analyze and predict how a charging session ends erroneously; this data is to be plugged in to new ML models as they’re developed
• Worked with cross functional teams (product, hardware, manufacturing, cloud, etc) to bring ChargePoint’s most complex and flagship AC and DC chargers to market, built on a common SW platform for North America and Europe
• Worked on vehicle charging protocols, OCPP (cloud communication), payment profiles, UI, power management, etc.
• Developed a first of its kind react-native based mobile application for installer and serviceability of stations, working with product and design teams to build a entirely new experience for installation and serviceability of stations

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr · San Francisco, California

• Head of Hardware Devices Group; growing the team from 7 to ~50 in the span of four months.
• Hardware Devices Group encompassed access control and IoT smart sensor hardware for WeWork.
• Developed and started execution on a plan, strategy and roadmap for Hardware/IoT Devices at WeWork bringing Hardware development to WeWork across electrical, mechanical, embedded and cloud software for devices
• Designed and built an access control solution that will reduce the cost for back of the closet access control solutions by ⅓rd for each door/badge reader combination used at WeWork
• Utilized WiFi and IoT sensors to build presence/occupancy analytics for WeWork & Enterprise spaces, through machine learning models used on non-PII data from WiFi access points
• Managed the integration of an acquired company in Montréal Canada; restructured and consolidated organization

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Owned end-to-end strategy & execution of diagnostics for Tesla Vehicles. Led a team covering web services, application development, vehicle software, software validation, program management, and factory integration.
• Hired, built, and mentored team to support current and future Tesla products; brought rigor and helped setup the team to
• deliver the highest quality car Tesla has ever built
• Owned and built the experience for manufacturing test and service centers across the world for Tesla vehicles
• Ramped up Model 3 production from ~30 cars in the first two months to well over 5000 per week.

Aug 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Owned software update and security architecture; working extensively with Silicon, HW, SW teams on secure-boot, chain-of-trust, cryptographic attestation, etc. Built a multi-disciplinary team across firmware, OS tools, security architects, and distributed systems (backend and frontend).

Mar 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Owned end-to-end strategy & execution of diagnostic software across Apple products used at manufacturing facilities for manufacturing line-testing, hardware validation, and bring up of various silicon and hardware components. Built a multi-disciplinary team across firmware (BSP), frameworks, tools, applications, and program management.
• Delivered year-on-year updates to increase functionality and hardware/software coverage for diagnostics; leading to a significant improvement in quality of products and customer delight when experiencing the products
• Developed a new manufacturing board support package platform that improved yield and throughput throughout Apple’s production facilities involving tight collaboration between hardware, manufacturing, test and software teams
• Software involved entire stack from silicon bringup, drivers, API, and iOS / Mac application development
• Worked with the silicon organization along with other teams to help guide roadmaps for future Apple silicon
• Doubled the size of the team; appropriately scaled and mentored leadership

Apr 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Grew and developed the organization to continue to support existing products, and bring up Apple's expanding line of iOS product lines
• Brought up and developed on Apple’s growing iOS product line (iPad, Apple watch, Apple TV, etc); continued to maintain a high level of quality
• Developed software engineering practices for the group to follow and build on

Jan 2009 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Coordinated and prioritized requirements for diagnostic software between different cross-functional teams and different product line groups; playing the role of a program manager along with team lead
• Hired and built the team; mentored new engineers
• Continued performing the role of a firmware engineer

Feb 2008 – Dec 2008 · 10 mos

• Bring-up, development, and support for diagnostic software delivered to manufacturing sites through firmware / board support packages purpose built for internal consumption
• Directly responsible individual (“DRI”) of diagnostic software on iPhone 3GS (brought up for the first time on an iPhone)

Jun 2006 – Aug 2006 · 2 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Integrate and deploy internal applications to improve quality of development work
• Improve and build upon the existing test harnesses; design a front end for test harness data

Jun 2005 – Aug 2005 · 2 mos · Greater Atlanta Area