Work Experience

Lead Product Design, BCI Buddy (2025 - present)

• Led the hardware development and creative direction for a series of educational brain-computer interfaces aimed at teaching neurotechnology skills for students age 10-18.

• Rapidly manufactured iterations of functional and visual prototypes of novel electronic devices.

• Worked with a diverse team of engineers, graphic designers, and researchers to ensure a fun, marketable, and manufacturable product.

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.

Product Design Contractor, GolTech Nanobiotechnology (2023)

• Led multidisciplinary research and development leading to several new technologies for testing biological samples.

• Guided the prototyping and validation of multiple iterations of a novel test apparatus.

• Developed models, renders, mechanical simulations, and functional prototypes.

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.

Marketing Assistant, KE Hospitality Group (2018 - 2023)

• Worked with ownership to produce architectural elevations for new construction projects.

• Created graphic design work for menus, signage, logos, T-shirts, furniture design.

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