Passion and a vested interest in software and its relation to sustainable tech - urban farming/sustainability, permaculture, aquaponics, waste reclamation/elimination and related processes, the decentralization ..of everything*, discrete micro-power generation, personal mobility/transportation, performance...
Redondo Beach, CA
Conducting independent engineering work focused on marine power systems, propulsion control, and electromechanical system integration using a 26’ offshore vessel as a real-world test platform.
Designed and prototyped a custom trim tab actuator system, integrating a 3 kW BLDC motor/controller with a custom-fabricated bell housing, drive shaft, and coupler into the retrofitted hydraulic assembly. Implemented control logic and relay circuitry to translate helm inputs via an Arduino-based interface, enabling discrete actuation of port and starboard hydraulic solenoids and replacing the original analog control scheme with reliable electronically controlled actuation.
Developed and deployed a custom trim/tilt motor controller for the Mercury Optimax outboard, integrating an Arduino microcontroller and Sabertooth motor driver to provide reliable electronic control of the trim system.
Architected a dual-voltage, 20kWh onboard power system combining 48V and 12V battery banks with high-capacity buck/boost converters for redundant vessel power distribution.
Integrated experimental auxiliary electric propulsion and thruster systems using high-power BLDC motors for low-speed maneuvering and propulsion experimentation.
Designed and fabricated custom structural components using various marine stable alloys, fiberglass composites, and marine epoxy to support propulsion and control hardware.
Established in-house fabrication capability for prototyping marine hardware, including CNC machining, sand casting, and metalworking for custom components.
United States
Served as technical lead for the Integrated Automations system within Workiva’s Wdesk enterprise reporting platform, an event-driven automation framework enabling users to define workflows composed of triggers (e.g., document events, manual execution) and actions (e.g., notifications, document state changes) to streamline financial reporting and collaboration.
Led the migration from static automation implementations to a plugin-based architecture, enabling internal product teams to build and integrate extensible automation capabilities across the Wdesk platform, including spreadsheets, connected processes, and scripting integrations.
Contributed to the design of plugin distribution and monetization infrastructure, enabling automation functionality to be delivered as platform extensions.
Designed and implemented real-time lifecycle visibility for long-running automation processes, introducing status tracking, progress feedback, and user-initiated cancellation to replace prior timeout-based failure handling.
Built and maintained end-to-end automation testing infrastructure using Puppeteer, implementing signal tests validating automation lifecycle events and UI state transitions; provisioned supporting test environments using Terraform.
Managed product release processes and CI/CD pipelines, maintaining release templates and deployment workflows through internal tooling (Skynet, MARV) and later integrating GitHub Actions into the automation pipeline.
Implemented feature flagging and controlled rollouts using LaunchDarkly to support safe deployment of beta and experimental platform features.
Ensured integration of the Integrated Automations client within the broader Wdesk platform ecosystem, a large-scale architecture composed of hundreds of repositories and shared services.
Developed platform features using Dart, TypeScript, React, and Redux-Sagas in a large enterprise SPA architecture.
El Segundo, California, United States
Lead backend development efforts relating to the decentralization of personal mobility and corporate fleet transportation and management, with a focus on refactor and optimization of reservation management code base; architecture, maintenance and debugging of API brokers with hardware integration, development and integration of new backend features and bimonthly releases of code to production servers via Github, Docker and AWS.
Developed automated pipeline with integration of onboarding workflow for organization generation and deployment for new and perspective clients, (customized MaaS generation).
Developed API broker with hardware integration for one of the latest vehicle vendors supported by LM, (Genze Scooters) allowing for the:
o Integration of the Genze scooter line into the Kinto Share service, (LM’s in-house MaaS) offerings.
o Automated provisioning of newly acquired vehicles.
o Processing remote vehicle commands via app.
o Gathering and processing of vehicle telemetry data.
Refactor of backend code relating to reservation management focusing on optimization, scalability and resolution of prior service impacting code anomalies.
Development and configuration of conditional and periodic alarms using WebWorkers to monitor DB interactions and related process flows within the production app.
Participated in regular code reviews via GitHub.
Participated in daily stand-up meetings.
Participated in screening process for new hire candidates.
2018 — 2019
Torrance, California, United States
Decentralizing and democratizing the future of automated automotive additive manufacturing, one code block at a time.
· Lead development effort of proprietary cloud based Additive Manufacturing Materials Database, Adhesives Database and 3D model optimization simulation platforms, (PaaS) and rapid prototyping delivery across the entire MEAN tech stack, (Angular, Node.js, Express, MongoDB).
· Architect and manage said projects from inception to deployment on a monthly development cycle, concluding with milestone presentations to CEO; gather requirements, develop wire-frames and process workflow, develop UI and related features by utilizing TypeScript/HTML5/CSS3, coding custom Angular components, Angular Material and expanding functionality of Cytoscape.js, develop relevant web-service end-points and RESTful API’s interfacing Node server and related logic, develop database schemas and related processes, integration of supporting executables and developed/maintained automated tests for unit testing and e2e.
· Developed Excel and PDF parsing and upload features for automating in-house material and adhesives certification processes for both Materials and Adhesives DB Platforms.
· Integrated computational algorithm executables for said simulations and later developed discrete API and asynchronous asset management processes for intelligent model optimization simulations as IDE platform matured and said logic was migrated to containerized cloud-based environments.
· Participate in regular code reviews both in person and daily via GitHub relating to MEAN and Python.
· Role expanded to include evaluating in-house processes for potential automation/optimization and managing said projects relating to Additive Manufacturing, Structures and Automation teams.
· Screen/interview new-hire candidates for the R&D Software team.
· Provide programming support to other teams across the company as necessary.
Burbank, CA
Deep dive into Full-Stack Software Development focusing on Python, Ruby and MEAN.
Education
2005 — 2009
Penn State University
Bachelors of Information Sciences and Technology
2005 — 2009
2017 — 2018
Coding Dojo
Full Stack Web Development Certification
2017 — 2018