Managing HW PDME team. Driving key HW decisions across Verkada’s Access and Intercom product lines.

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Supporting various folks (from start-ups to public companies to VC firms) to define, design and bring new products into production through manufacturing and distribution.

We work with surgeons, academic and non-profit organizations, and governments to make essential trauma and orthopedic surgery available to the poor and vulnerable. We assist our partners in research, education, policy and advocacy, and system and device innovation.

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Initial mechanical engineering hire. Scaled HW PD team to 7+; HW team to 80+; Samsara growth from 30 to 1,800+ employees and revenues to $1B ARR. Samsara IPO'ed December 2021.

Launched 15+ products into mass production; including Vehicle Gateways (VG32, VG33, VG34, VG54), Asset Gateways (AG26, AG46), Industrial Gateways (IG15, IG21), sensors (EM21/22, HM11), cameras (CM11, CM32, VS1).

Experience onboarding multiple overseas and local CM/JDM/ODM engineering teams, injection molding, metal fabrication, electromechanical module and packaging vendors; establishing rigorous quality and reliability checks.

Experience leading engineering teams to design for cameras, RF, mics, speakers, temperature and humidity sensors, IR, solar, batteries, thermal dissipation, ruggedized, outdoor, waterproof, cable harnesses, Hazloc, ATEX and UL.

Experience shipping millions of units, across dozens of SKUs and revisions, while navigating supply chain issues.