# Andy Lee > CO2 drawdown innovator. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andylee Building products, tools, and teams. ## Work Experience ### Lead Engineer Impossible Fibers @ Astera Institute Jan 2025 – Present | Emeryville, California, United States Developing processes to enable bio fibers and materials. ### Founder @ Aeolus Works Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Startup Mentor @ Carbon180 Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Mentored and advised startups in climate change reversal (aka drawdown) ### Manylabs Fellow @ Manylabs Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Studied scope and scale of methods and techniques for climate change reversal. ### Senior Rapid Prototyping Engineer @ Magic Leap, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Technical Consultant and Advisor to Hardware Startups @ Independent Advisor and Consultant Jan 2009 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Helping hardware startups make great products. ### Artist in Residence @ Autodesk Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 designed a modular sculpture based on stacking regular polyhedra. Researched thick medium Huffman fold origami. My work was featured in popular mechanics. ### Technical Advisor @ Robots for Humanity Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Menlo Park Worked with researchers at Willow garage and Georgia tech to develop an emergency run stop sensor a mute paraplegic to communicate with a pr2 robot. Our work was published in IEEE. ### Founder @ SwitchHooks Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 Switchhooks was a 2 year study in bootstrapping and bringing a product to market. The concept was simple, add value to a light switch plate, by adding the function of storage. Switchhooks are available through several catalogs and were featured in many magazines and blogs. ### Maker Startup Weekend Organizer @ Startup Weekend Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 ### Engineer @ NASA Ames Research Center Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Mountain View Built a team which developed the foundation of smart phone based tele-robotics. I spoke about the experience at the first open hardware summit. ### Mechanical Engineer @ Andy Lee Designs Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Designed and prototyped medical devices, ultra-luxury sound systems, point of purchase system for wine by the glass, and designed bearing systems for 2-ton public art installation. Licenced plat pack furniture designs. ### Mechanical Engineer @ Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 I preformed research on solar power technologies. I developed and tested several pieces of technology and intellectual property for industrial production of solar power systems. Working with a team of international researchers. I developed an automated system for cleaning industrial equipment used in the production of solar panel contact leads. We checked our work with an electron microscope. Assorted project work: DARPA funded bio-defence project, Modular robotic research. ### Course coach Design for extreme affordability @ Stanford d.school Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Palo Alto ### Product Design Intern @ Ideo Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 At Ideo's Palo Alto head-quarters, I worked in the R2M(research to market) group, taking cutting edge technologies and developing them for application in the market place. Assorted projects work for clients including: Proctor & Gamble, Pepsi, Steelcase, Kick Start Technology, Calypso Medical, Shimano. Many of the projects I was a part of are now in mass production and can be bought at stores around the country. These include: Mr. Clean MagicReach, Zyliss kitchen gadgets, and the Shimano Lime bicycle. ## Education ### BSIT in Product Design, Engineering, Electronics, Religious Studies San Francisco State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/theandy - Portfolio: http://www.5cell.net --- Source: https://flows.cv/andylee JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andylee/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13