Work Experience

Freelance Prototype Manufacturing and Industrial Design (2025 - present)

• Worked with clients across consumer electronics, wearables, and toys to turn their ideas into manufacturable and compelling prototypes with turnaround times under two months.

• Operated at all levels of design, from aesthetic and conceptual exploration through to electrical and mechanical design through to PCBs and high-fidelity prototypes.

• Quickly and cost-effectively explored design spaces using low-fidelity prototyping techniques in combination with user testing.

• Used surface modeling, Blender rendering, and product photography to create and showcase polished final products.

Student Supervisor, EnVision Maker Studio (2021 - 2025)

• Designed, executed, and promoted a new creative lab for fiber arts.

• Mentored a wide variety of student prototyping projects in mechanical and electrical engineering.

• Taught microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi and a variety of prototyping manufacturing techniques.

• Led a team of six to redesign, upgrade, and maintain the front-end and back-end of a networked server system used daily by hundreds of students.

Technician and Data Analyst, Office of Innovation and Commercialization @ UCSD (2022 - 2023)

• Provided technical manufacturing and prototyping advising to a variety of student startups across many engineering disciplines.

• Designed, budgeted for, and executed a new prototyping lab space used daily by tens of startups. 

• Analyzed and processed statistical data relevant to usage, demographics, and UX for UCSD.

Skills

CAD/EDA Design: KiCAD EDA, Altium Designer, Fusion 360, Onshape, Inventor, Plasticity.

Fabrication:  Costuming/Wearable Electronics, Laser cutting, 3d printing, PCB manufacturing, CNC machining, Moldmaking

Graphic Design: Inkscape, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Photoshop, Krita, Canva, Figma

Programming: Java (Android), Python, Micropython, C++, Arduino, Git, Pure Data, Touchdesigner

Microcontrollers/SBC: Raspberry Pi, RP2040, ESP32

System Administration: Networking, Linux (Debian Server, Raspberry Pi OS), Windows, Mac