# Owen O. > Tooling Design Lead at Joby Aviation Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/oweno Setting out to build the first FAA conforming aircraft in eVTOL history. ## Work Experience ### Tooling Design Lead @ Joby Aviation Jan 2024 – Present | Marina, California, United States ### Senior Project Engineer @ Joby Aviation Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Marina, CA Tasked with the planning and execution of all tooling needed for Joby’s type-certification fuselage. - Responsible for all fuselage tooling - Represented tooling in fuselage IPT Team - Provided detailed work breakdown structure to tooling team - Prepared and developed high level fixture design - Aligned goals and schedules of tooling effort to meet company objective ### Tooling Design Engineer @ Joby Aviation Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Santa Cruz, California, United States Designed countless fixtures, molds, and critical tooling for both experimental and production aircraft. Responsible for the fabrication and on-time delivery of my own projects. - Managed large vendor tooling projects - Invented a proprietary method to design molds faster in 3DX CATIA 2023x which cut our design cycles in half - Developed Joby’s tooling design approaches and documentation - Coordinated tooling activities across a wide range of departments including airframe design, planning, manufacturing, assembly, and testing teams - Onboarded and trained junior tool designers CFRP | Lamination Molds | CNC Trim Fixtures | Airframe Assembly Fixtures | Inspection Fixtures | ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ PATHION Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Saratoga Modular commercial and industrial grade energy storage systems ranging from 250kWh to 2.5MWh. Designed and built custom hardware solutions including large scale energy storage containers, DC switches, and other commercial grade equipment to meet customer requirements. ### Chassis Design Lead @ Lumberjack Motorsports Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Flagstaff, Arizona, United States Lumberjack Motorsports is the SAE Baja team at Northern Arizona University. In a calendar year our team designed and built this vehicle from scratch then raced in the 2019 California competition, where we finished the endurance race in the top third of all 100 universities. One the best results in the program’s history. ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ 316 Motor Works Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Flagstaff, AZ While attending school full time, I designed race car parts for 316 Motor Works while they competed in the Rally America series. ### Mechanical Engineer Intern @ Vintage Electric Bikes Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California Designer of several successful product launches. Led R&D on the electromechanical housing design of battery and controller architecture on electric bicycles. Produced Frame CAD design and engineering drawings to manufacture several prototype frames that later became production bicycles. ### Athlete / Cyclist @ Trailhead Racing Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 | United States Represented sponsorship's from companies such as Specialized, SRAM, Smith Optics, and Troy Lee Designs racing CAT1 DH mountain bikes. ### Manufacturing Technician @ RPM Fitness Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Los Gatos, CA RPM Fitness is home to the leading speed-rope on the market and is used by the fittest people on the planet. ### Product Tester @ hive design Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Los Gatos, CA Hive Design is an engineering start-up located in the heart of the Silicon Valley that played a hand in the creation of Sensel Morph, Edwin, Eligo, and RPM Fitness to name a few. ## Education ### Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering Northern Arizona University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/optinventive --- Source: https://flows.cv/oweno JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/oweno/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13