• Developed specialized additive manufacturing software for brand-name clients including Fortune 500 companies.

• Led remote software team to develop and deploy a native desktop application for print preparation; as a white-label application this is highly customizable to client needs and includes a plugin system and secure licensing.

• Managed client relationships from business development through product specification and implementation; helped clients move from high-level goals to appropriate computational geometry algorithms and efficient implementations.

• Maintained and extended open-source C# libraries for additive manufacturing; architected core classes and plugin API for flexible reuse in multiple applications.

• Developed a high-performance C++ toolpathing library for additive manufacturing; currently used in both Fusion 360 and Netfabb.

• Took “Project Escher,” a multi-gantry asynchronous parallelized manufacturing concept from ideation through production. Included development of algorithms for efficient work distribution and collision avoidance, as well as several rounds of hardware development for proof-of-concept and reference implementation.

• Lead developer for non-planar FFF/FDM toolpathing software; this novel approach used advanced toolpath strategies to enable new production capabilities on existing hardware.

• Developed a variety of techniques to allow printing conformal topographic layers and modifying mesh geometry to embed images as heightmaps.

• Took startup from zero to acquisition in 15 months.

Fast-paced startup developing high-concentration PV systems with inflated film optics

• Mechanical design, prototyping and testing on wide range of projects, including:

• Lightweight two-axis (azimuth & elevation) solar trackers

• Custom tools and processes for manufacture of precision composite parts

• Reliable retention, sealing and production of inflatable film structures

• Fault-tolerant receiver modules with strict optical and thermal performance criteria

• Responsible for complex system analyses (e.g. coupled simulation of effects of non-linear structural deformation on optical performance)

• Wrote extensive software and algorithm library to automate design of embossed refractive Fresnel patterns on cylindrical surfaces, using Python and the SolidWorks API

• Worked in conjunction with vendors to adapt prototype designs for high-volume processes

• Promoted to Engineer III, coordinated small groups on time-critical projects

• Co-author on patent, “Inflated Tubular Solar Concentrators”