Advising the Dean of the engineering school on vitality and direction of the school from the perspective of early-career professionals

• Self-taught SME focusing on end-user and environmental impacts (carbon, waste, human) of our products, creating tools and streamlining processes to achieve year over year sustainability improvements across product categories.

• Spearheaded Watch & Tablet cross-functional longevity collaboration to exceed emerging repair regulations.

• Lead Watch Design-For-Repairability study on factory floor in Vietnam, testing UX and repaired device reliability, provided real-time design feedback, and drove design improvements for next prototype iteration.

• Define year over year improvements for all product categories, scaling recycled content (plastic, cobalt,tungsten, metal, and rare earths) with minimal cost impact (<10%).

• Engage executives to secure support for sustainability goals, ensuring quality and performance alignment.

Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen)

• Design engineer responsible for Battery, Metal Bangle & integration, & Sensors PCBA.

• Validated & shipped 1st Google product with recycled cobalt despite $0.07 cost adder, leading to all future product adoption in Google HW portfolio.

• Owned critical bangle (dial) cosmetic design and system integration, including hall sensor rotation detection.

• Avoided 1dB antenna degradation working with EE, RF, ESD, & Sensors teams on critical bangle grounding design without impact to premium bangle “feel” for user (confirmed with Manufacturing, ID, UX).

• Initiated & increased wall screw manufacturing yields by 4% to save cost, impacting all shipping thermostats.

• Identified & drove all sustainability work without quality impact, including a pilot on track to eliminate 200+ tonnes of redundant component packaging, simultaneously saving over $300K in product production costs.

Nest Thermostat (2020)

• Design engineer responsible for ultrasonic welded backplate assembly with remote FATP build experience during COVID.\

• Modified off-the-shelf BP connectors to improve product’s end-user usability, prevent mechanical breakage, improve cosmetics, increase speed of assembly, and meet Google safer chemistry requirements.

• Identified user installation challenge and drove design improvements (with ID impact).

• Spearheaded 1st time validation of 75% PCR resin content on the BP “charcoal” SKU, successfully increasing system-level PCR plastics by 4.6% and enabling 75% PCR resin use across the Google HW product portfolio.

• Created a serviceability scorecard and drove the product serviceability analyses across Nest portfolio.

• Patents: USD948354S1 ; USD975556S1

Nest Hub Max (2019)

• Designed custom camera module with gasket & interconnect, main logic board (MLB) PCBA, enclosure fabric wrap, volume buttons PCBA with interconnect, and thermal interface materials.

• Patent: US20200110443A1