Ancilla, LLC is a ME Design Consulting and Prototype Services company. Clients included well-known companies, such as, Google, Snap, Bowers & Wilkins, to numerous successful startups from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cocoterra is a startup developing a fully automated chocolate machine to make chocolate from “bean to bar” at home.

►Coordinated all facets of Product Design: SW, EE, and ID.

►Designed and prototyped all mechanical facets of the product.

Nest Labs is a home automation company manufacturing sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning thermostats, smoke detectors and cameras.

►Button mechanism redesign of 3rd generation thermostat

►Quantified "click feel" and implemented QA testing and production QA procedures at manufacturing plant.

►Custom 20 pin connector design

►Achieved improved performance with less exotic resin materials with lower costs

GoPro is the market leader in personal action digital cameras.

►Dual Hero System (3D action video Camera). Functional at 10 meters water depth.

►Wi-Fi Remote Control.

• Redesigned product Architecture.

• Functional at 10 meters water depth.

• Extensive Instron analysis for quantifying dome switch feel