Experience

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  Santa monica family ymca

  May 2009 - Sept 2009

  Swim instructor
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  Self-employed

  Sept 2009 - May 2011

  Math tutor
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  Key club - santa monica high school

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2010

  President
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  Neighborhood power corporation

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Intern
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  Ssf imported auto parts llc

  Jun 2013 - Aug 2013

  Intern
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  Cal aero

  May 2014 - May 2016

  • Managed a team of thirty people for both the business and design aspects of the team, growing the team member count from five to thirty, increasing the budget by 4x, and bringing the team to its first two competitions.• Established a set of principles in design, infrastructure, safety, business, and team identity to ensure the team’s success upon graduation.• Generated system-level design specifications and interfaces for each design team.• Led the analysis, design, and manufacturing of the wing.• Established and maintained corporate contacts at Boeing and Northrop Grumman, generating sponsorships and job opportunities for the team. Show less

  • President, Design Lead

    May 2015 - May 2016

  • Design Lead, Wing Team Lead

    May 2014 - May 2015
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  James loudspeaker

  Jun 2015 - Dec 2015

  Manufacturing engineering intern

  • Designed in AutoCAD and Solidworks custom aluminum speaker cabinets and mounting hardware under various design constraints generating engineering drawings to be sent to machinists.• Produced 3D animated product installation instructional videos for complexly mounted speakers.

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  Axiom exergy

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2020

  • Theorized and developed core control algorithms for Virtual Battery (VB) and Virtual Technician (VT), working directly with CTO and CEO. • Led development, deployment, and operation of VT pilots, resulting in successful operation at 3 stores.• Demonstrated proof of concept technology of VB and VT to potential customers, resulting in Phase 1 sales.• Programmed in Python the automation of various steps of site commissioning, including live data dashboards and site configuration files, using building management system network and controller configuration files.• Led the installation, commissioning, and operation of the pilot Refrigeration Battery (RB) at Whole Foods in Los Altos, resulting in Axiom Exergy’s first successful periods of energy bill savings.Solved 2 interdisciplinary long-standing RB issues (requiring a combination of hardware, thermodynamic, and software implementations) resulting in both fully remote and fully autonomous operation.• Analyzed time-series RB data in Python to help inform critical commissioning and operation decisions. Show less

  • Systems Engineer

    Sept 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Product Engineer

    Jun 2016 - Sept 2019
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  Axiom cloud

  Jul 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Led an interdisciplinary team of 4 engineers in ideation, prioritization, development, testing, and deployment of new control algorithms and features for Virtual Battery (VB) , Virtual Technician (VT), and Facilities Analyzer, interfacing with software, operations, executive, & customer teams, and customers in addition to analyzing time-series data in Python to inform discussions and decisions, ultimately increasing both performance and automation by >50%.• Guided and informed company-level decisions as a member of Axiom’s management team, including development and maintenance of the organizational structure, mission, vision, and guiding principles.• Forecasted growth, hiring requirements, and fundraising requirements given budget & resource constraints by building a “bottom-up approach” model that determined operational resource requirements given the resource requirements and impact of various R&D projects, ultimately dictating prioritization of engineering projects, the engineering hiring plan, and quarterly objectives.• Rapidly prototyped and deployed operational tools in Python in response to short-term critical customer performance and food-safety requirements.• Interfaced with Axiom’s largest customer as the main point of contact for a Phase 1 rollout, commissioning, and operation of 16 sites of VB and VT, resulting in a Phase 2 sale.• Developed in Python a tool that dynamically built customer-facing dashboards in Grafana using site and customer and site specific data as inputs. Show less

  • VP of Innovation

    Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Director, New Product Development

    Jul 2020 - Aug 2021