Our Work

Below are some of the projects and career experiences that shape my expertise.

Torc

Torc is seeking to productize a class 8 commercial trucking autonomous driver; a full-stack autonomy software problem bolted onto an automotive-grade hardware economics-of-scale problem.

I worked at Torc for 4 years, where the company grew from roughly 400 to 1,000+ employees. While there, I worked in three areas

I managed teams in the path planning and controls group,
I built the Technical Product Management group reporting into the Chief of Staff
I built the Simulation group, merging disparate tools into testing solutions that meet scale.

My experiences here above all shaped what bad habits to look for early in a company's journey that compound with growth in headcount.

DesignateDriver

DesignateDriver was a company working on the teleoperations application of the autonomous driving space.

I came to DD when they had 4 engineers and an interesting, but cumbersome software/hardware architecture limited to specific remote driving use cases.

We realigned the focus of engineering effort from project-first to product-first, moving to a generalized, modular architecture whose

deployments served all customers, rather than maintaining onerous one-off configurations
extensibility allowed us to expand the customer base with remote asset monitoring and remote assistance needs.

Santa Barbara Focalplane

Lockheed Martin is a monolith company of 12x,xxx employees worldwide. By comparison, their SBF outlet is a small, mixed R&D and production outlet that provides highly-specialized infrared camera systems to the U.S. Government and its allies.

I worked for SBF for two years to productize a low-yield, high-altitude research project. I audited the end-to-end assembly process and converted that into a production build that integrated into the manufacturer's existing tooling and personnel investments.

What started as a specialized process executed on by one highly-paid research engineer became generalized with shared tooling that technicians already had training on. Yields increased from 9 to 17 to 51 YoY.

Adam CogTec

Adam produced driver-monitoring technology that could monitor and infer changes in cognitive state: impairments, drowsiness, and distraction.

I worked directly for Adam's CEO to build their product strategy. What I found was an interesting, but academic technology and leadership team in need of focus on OEM and Tier 1 customers and on their problems delivering AI-based ADAS products.

Together, we leveraged EOS and produced three-year goals discretized into a series of 90-day milestones that the entirety of company could work toward and deliver upon. We organized work packages and reporting around this hierarchy, giving clear executive line-of-sight into product development.

Other Career Experiences

PolySync

what I did at polysync

Jaguar Land Rover

what I did at JLR

Lockheed Martin MF&C

what I did for MFC

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