Milestones
•Led the implementation design team responsible for the flagship L1 3D printer. Successfully took system from prototype to product in highly accelerated 6-month architecture and design iteration.
•Brought up and diagnosed issues with the Adidas additive manufacturing process. We grew from printing 300 midsoles in a year to today’s production of over 1,000,000 pairs annually.
•Designed and led the implementation of printer behaviors critical to process efficiency, UL safety requirements and user experience.
•Headed debug efforts to resolve a critical line-down manufacturing failure mode involving travelling internationally to diagnose and resolve issues.
•Validated numerous system-level design changes. Features ranged from optics software control/calibration, peripheral electronics, motor control, and internal compute platform.
Job functions
•Lead system engineer on the company’s largest production partnership, Adidas
•Manage a team of five individual contributors
•Behavior implementation – designing system/software architecture changes necessary to support new hardware features. This entails gathering all proposed design changes, determining software implementation, evaluating requirements for each subsystem, tracking these changes through development, working through nuances as needed with responsible design engineers, validating the final implementation, then working with operations/manufacturing/service to understand these changes and how they affect their processes.
•System debug – first point of contact for system failures. I work to diagnose issues across multiple disciplines, design tests to isolate root cause, analyze results, and then work with design engineers to resolve the issue without introducing new issues.
•Validation – writing test plans and building software test tools to validate new features.
