Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

• AR glasses - Orion and beyond

Jan 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• End-to-end maritime autonomy at lightning speed & scale.
• Member of original founding team of 5, now 130+ people! Designed the hardware system (mixed signal circuits, simulations, eCAD / PCB) that enables low-cost autonomy and powers every single boat.
• A couple highlights include:
• (1) a Cortex M7 based real-time robot control system with redundant IMUs, GPS, motor controllers, ethernet, & seamless power switchover.
• (2) a 6 rail DC-DC converter system capable of 1kW output with only passive cooling up to 50c ambient

Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Fully autonomous heavy equipment, made possible by a hardware & software retrofit kit.
• ◆ Owned product definition for the entire stack (hardware, software, and UI / system interfaces).
• ◆ Led hardware engineering, which included design & implementation (sims, schematics, layout) of several versions of the hardware system that makes autonomy possible.
• ◆ Deployed the world's first fully autonomous D10T bulldozer in a commercial mine.
• ◆ Hired awesome people, grew from a few of us in a garage to 20+.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• Founding member of watch team.
• ◆ Defined all major Pixel watch hardware subsystems (silicon, display, sensing, haptics, audio, GPS, BT/WiFi, LTE, accessories) from concept through production.
• ◆ Initiated and led effort to rethink the 3-year product strategy & drove vision. Consolidated roadmaps between Google x Fitbit after the acquisition and recaptured $xxxM in opex.
• ◆ Owned development of next-gen flagships after the Fitbit acquisition, leading product definition & positioning, PRDs, GTM strategy, and unit economics + P&L for Pixel Watch 2.
• ◆ Led new technology explorations, including display tech, form factor, power / battery, and silicon.
• 15 utility patents and 15+ publications
• Alum of the Associate Product Manager (APM) program. Promoted 3x.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

• APM2: Wearables
• APM1: PM lead for Pixel & Android bluetooth, including wireless (BLE) audio.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo · Cupertino, CA

•  Watch Series 3 and Series 4.
• ◆Invented "optimized battery charging" feature. Developed, from ideation to prototype, code & ML models for adaptive charging methods to increase battery lifetime and Faraday efficiency. The prod version of this was launched in iOS 13 and used on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watch and Airpods.
• ◆Wrote scripts in Perl to evaluate charge curve characteristics.
• ◆Schematic and PCB design for Watch system-in-package (SIP) dev boards.
• ◆Designed a flex PCB for the Watch side button.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo · Cupertino, CA

• Worked on the 15" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.
• ◆Evaluation of novel current sense methods and hardware-based feedback control loop for GPU performance increase.
• ◆Led a system architecture & firmware change to speed up battery charge time by > 5%.
• ◆Debugged issues at the signal level, including trackpad, display, and DC-DC.
• ◆Characterization and validation for crystal oscillator, SPI ROM, SSD NAND, and power converters.
• ◆Traveled to China to support manufacturing and debug prototypes of new products.

Jun 2015 – Sep 2015 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Worked on Model S and X on-board charger (also used in supercharger stations).

May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA

• NASA sponsored 3U CubeSat that launched to explore relativistic electron losses (space weather) in the Earth's radiation belts.
• ◆Led design on satellite's 7-rail switch-mode power supply.
• ◆Co-designer on thermal vacuum chamber controller.