Garofalo Woodworks, Auburn, WA

Assistant Cabinetmaker

United States Marine Corps Reserve, Spokane, WA

Field Artillery Cannoneer

Champion Arms, Renton, WA

Rangemaster/Range Safety Officer

Oversaw usage of indoor firing range and provided instruction and guidance on safe handling and the proper accurate use of firearms.

Condon For Mayor, Spokane, WA 2011

Campaign Manager

Managed a successful mayoral campaign unseating the incumbent in Washington’s second largest municipality.

Consumer Law Clinic, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA 2012

Rule 9 Limited Practice Licensee

Conducted oral arguments before the Washington State Court of Appeals

Conducted lender negotiations and mortgage restructuring

Hero Lab, Bothell, WA 2017–2018

Research Assistant/Postbaccalaureate Researcher

Conducted research on the applications of machine learning to the detection of cardiomyopathy. Utilized transfer learning techniques to train a highly accurate neural network on constrained data. Assisted in the development of embedded systems. Managed Github repository. Contributed to published articles.

TurboPatent, Seattle, WA 2015–2018

Patent Engineer

Managed patent portfolios and drafted patent applications, including invention drawings, claims, and specifications, for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Assist in final editing of patent application and any subsequent prosecution. Conducts client meetings to extract invention information as needed in order to suitably edit client-submitted invention disclosure and begin drafting patent application. Experience in computer and software systems, robotics, virtual/augmented reality system applications, signal processing, machine learning, mechanical and electronic devices.

OneBox, Bothell, WA

2018-2019 CTO and Co-Founder

Founded startup applying artificial intelligence to increase efficiency of loading and shipping goods via containerships.

Freelance Software Development, Fort Collins, Colorado 2019-2022 Developer

Kiwi, Fort Collins, Colorado

2022-Present CEO and Co-Founder

HONORS

UNITED STATES CONGRESS May 2011

Congressional Legal Fellowship

Oil Paintings Published in Reflection Art Journal

Gonzaga University Reflection Art Journal 2011

Textbook Contributing Author - Biomedical Engineering

Authored section on the application of Artificial Intelligence to electrocardiogram analysis in the chapter “Interfacing Bioelectronics and Biomedical Sensing”

"Electrocardiogram: Acquisition and Analysis for Biological Investigations and Health Monitoring"

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-34467-2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34467-2

Journal Article Contributing Author - Biomedical Engineering

Researcher and author on section regarding the applications of transfer learning in artificial neural networks to the detection of cardiomyopathy in the analysis of transgenic zebrafish electrocardiograms.

Lenning, M.; Fortunato, J.; Le, T.; Clark, I.; Sherpa, A.; Yi, S.; Hofsteen, P.; Thamilarasu, G.; Yang, J.; Xu, X.; Han, H.-D.; Hsiai, T.K.; Cao, H.

Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis of Zebrafish Electrocardiogram with Anomaly Detection. Sensors 2018, 18, 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/s18010061

Electronics

Language Proficiencies

Competent in C/C++, Javascript, Python, Java, Verilog

Circuit board design

Design custom circuit boards, prep and export for fabrication and iterate through the fabrication and revision process with circuit fabrication houses for successive board modifications

FCC Compliance Analyzing circuit board design and radiative emissions (electromagnetic interference) for compliance with FCC unintentional radiator certifications and implementing best practices during design process

Troubleshooting circuits with logic analyzer

Digital Circuit Design

Designing digital circuits in verilog to digital circuits in Field Programmable Gate Arrays for direct application and prototyping for potential integrated circuit design.

Firmware/Microcontrollers

Engineering standard firmware and utilizing manufacturer-specific software to control a variety of microcontroller ecosystems including STM ARM RISC V, ESP32, ESP8266, ATMEGA, Texas Instruments, and Nordic Semiconductor.

Real-Time Operating Systems

Experienced implementing real-time operating systems utilizing FreeRTOS for use in applications where standard firmware was not feasible due to real-time constraints

IOT

Experience developing and deploying to amazon AWS and Google Cloud Services Cloud-based IOT devices

Control Systems

Experience designing and implementing control systems for physical devices utilizing a variety of transducers, sensors and motors. Including robotic control and gcode controlled devices.

Artificial Intelligence

Experience implementing scaled-down AI frameworks/algorithms on single board computers and purpose-built hardware such as the raspberry pi, and NVidia Jetson

Robotics

Experience design, construction and control of robotic systems including both completely custom mechanical components and control system implementation as well as experience with ROS (Robot Operating Sytem)

Hardware (generally)

Experience with a wide variety of development boards, sensors and components

3D and Mathematical Modeling for Manufacture and Rapid Prototyping

CNC machine modification and maintenance

Experience maintaining and upgrading prosumer-grade CNC machines, creating custom screw-driven z-axis to replace belt]-driven linear actuation. Upgraded standard router to 2.2 kilowatt water-cooled VFD-driven spindle. Upgraded stepper motors and controllers. Troubleshot electromagnetic interference issues and implemented proper shielding and grounding to allow for reliable machine operation.

3D printer modification and maintenance

Experience maintaining DLP/SLA and FDM and upgrading FDM printers to handle engineering-grade filaments. Upgraded 3D printer hotend, installed AC heated bed, direct drive extruder, controller, drivers, and wiring, designed custom fan housing for better part cooling. Designed temperature-controlled heated enclosure to allow for a wider range of filament use. Experience with both Marlin and Klipper firmware, as well as Cura and PrusaSlicer slicing software.. Experience successfully printing a range of filaments including nylon, carbon fiber reinforced filaments, and flexible filaments.

CAD

Designing and modeling parts and assemblies in 3D drafting software Autodesk Inventor and Fusion 360, for manufacture using standard and rapid prototyping techniques.

CAM/CNC Machining

Drafting machinable parts in CAD software based on the known axis limitations of the CNC machine. Selecting proper feeds and speeds, generating and adjusting toolpaths and operations. CNC machining a variety of metals and materials including wood, epoxy, aluminum, and steel.

3D Printing

Experience designing parts in CAD around 3D printer limitations and 3D printing using both DLP/SLA resin and FDM printing process. printing as well a wide variety of filaments including engineering filaments

Structural analysis

Utilizing Autodesk Inventor and Fusion 360 to conduct center of gravity analysis for cantilevered design to ensure stability, and Finite Element Analysis for stress/strain in structural parts to determine proper material and material dimensions for a given application

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Utilizing Open FOAM computational fluid dynamics software to analyze aero/hydrodynamic properties of designed parts as well as modeling particle flow within confined spaces.

Modeling physical behavior of Objects

Modeling items in Blender and utilizing blender’s built-in physics engine to model behavior to study the effect of object size/size variation and shape on pourability and porosity after final deposition

Biomedical

Using a variety of software including Blender to translate photogrammetry and laser point cloud data as well as and medical scans and 3D point-cloud data into print ready solid body models and utilizing these models to create real life models as well as using them to design custom-fit apparatuses.

Computers

Operating Systems

Experience with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and UNIX(FreeBSD)

Computer/Server Building

Speccing-out and selecting compatible components to build standard computer towers as well as rack mounted multi-cpu servers.

Data Backup, recovery, and Storage

Implemented offsite storage via Google Cloud and on-site data storage utilizing rack-mounted servers, experience with SAS and SATA drives, utilizing hardware RAID controllers as well host bus adapters to construct hard disk arrays. Built Custom Network Attached Storage Utilizing Trunas and managing backup schedule with Macrium Reflect. Experience recovering files lost to due to deletion and harddrive malfunction, using software including TestDisk, Ddrescue, and photorec

Networking

Experience building dedicated network firewall utilizing PFSense and implementing a Gigabit/10 Gigabit ethernet and fiber optic home network using appropriate network cards and rack-mounted/free standing network switches

Repair

Experience replacing laptop and cellphone touch screens

Software/Internet/Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Experience conducting academic research into applications of artificial intelligence in the biomedical space.

Experience implementing a variety of machine learning algorithm in practical software applications. Experience implementing custom Generative Adversarial Network to auto-convert and color movie frames

AI Tools

Experience with OpenAI gym, Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow

Natural Language Processing

Incorporating Natural Language processing into web applications employing both standard as well as machine-learning techniques. Familiar with Spacy, StanfordNLP, etc.

Computer Vision and Image Processing

Experience with remote camera control, and image capture and processing with OpenCV utilizing both standard programming techniques as well as implementing cascade classifiers and artificial neural networks for object/facial recognition and tracking

Web Application Development

Experience building, deploying, and maintaining web applications with Python, Django and VueJS

Web Design

Experience with overall web design and coding, css, html, javascript, website frameworks/services like squarespace and wordpress

Leatherwork and Textiles

Leather

Experience working with a variety of weights, grades, and types of leather, wet-forming, cutting, hand saddle stitching, sewing machine stitching, copper rivets, zippers, and a variety of hardware.

Textiles

Experience on both consumer grade and industrial sewing machines and sergers, and have worked with both heavy duty industrial synthetic fabrics like Cordura and natural fabrics of a variety of weaves and weighs

Output

Utilizing the above methods, have experience with pattern design, creating a variety of things including clothing articles, bags, straps, cuffs, watch bands, wallets.

Automotive/Motorcycle

Experience maintaining large and small two stroke and four stroke aspirated and turbocharged, internal combustion engines of a variety of sizes.

Experience maintaining and upgrading motorcycles, automobiles including maintaining/replacing engine timing components, drivetrain components, bearings/seals, suspension system replacement and upgrading, exhaust, cooling systems, and electronics, for on and off road applications.

Art/Graphic Design

Fine Art

Fine Artist experienced with graphite pencil, watercolors, ink, oil painting and acrylic painting in abstract, realism and impressionist styles. Experience building and stretching canvas frames

Software

Experience with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

Branding

Logo and Brand Design

Photography/Videography/Audio

Digital Photography

Experience with high speed and long exposure photography. Photographing humans, scenery, and wildlife, as well as products both in-studio and “in the wild”

Commercial Videography

Experience shooting, editing and airing a commercial on network television

Software

Experience with Audacity, Adobe Audition, Premier, AfterEffects, Bridge, Photoshop, Lightroom

Glass/Wood/Metalwork

Woodworking

Experience building a wide variety of items in a professional and non-professinal setting. Experience in a variety of techniques and all common woodworking tools, as well as a variety of hand tools including Japanese hand saws, chisels and hand planes as well as standard euro/american hand planes

Glassworking

Experience doing small scale glasswork utilizing natural gas torches to shape and fuse borosilicate glass, minimal experience with glass blowing

Casting experience with lost wax metal casting and mold making

Blacksmithing

Experience operating a forge to heat shape and temper metal

Machine Shop

Experience machining using manual bridgeport mill and similar mills as well as metal lathe (including thread-cutting), cnc machine shop and a variety of common saws and grinders.

Small scale metalwork

Experience with jewelry/small scale metal manufacturing techniques including, casting, and soldering

Large scale metalwork/fabrication

Experience with shaping, grinding, bending and a variety of metal fusing techniques for fusing both similar and dissimilar metal type including riveting, MIG welding, TIG welding, TIG brazing, MAP gas brazing, and soldering

Coatings/Finishes

Patinas/Chemical Treatments

Experience with a variety of patinas and chemical treatments to age/patina metal and wood

Ceramic Coating

Experience prepping, applying and heart-curing Cerakote ceramic-based coatings

Coating ceramics

Experience applying glazes to ceramic earthenware/stoneware pottery

Automotive

Experience with multi-tone paint/paint pinstriping, as well as applying metallic multi-part paint and clearcoat

Woodworking

experience with a wide variety of stains, dyes and treatments, both water and oil-based. Experience with the application of a wide variety of water, oil, and solvent based final clear finishes, (tung oil, lacquer, hand-rubbed poly, etc)

Polymers and Composites and Rubbers

Laminates/Casting

Experience with fiberglass and carbon fiber lamination and layup, as well as carbon fiber part casting and experience working with both polyester and epoxy resins, including fast-set and deep pour epoxy

Concrete

Experience with both portland-cement based concrete as well as Calcium Sulfoaluminate cement-based concrete and an understanding of chemical differences and methods of speeding and retarding set times

Moldmaking

Experience creating plaster and vulcanized rubber molds for lost wax casting, experience creating vacuum-forming bucks, and silicon/polyurethane molds for a variety of materials and at a variety of Shore hardness levels, and an understanding of mold material compatibility

Vacuum Forming

Experience vacuum and heat-shaping polymer sheeting around custom molds

Public Speaking

Appellate Argument

Argued in front of the Washington State Court of Appeals

Wedding Officiating

Experience officiating two weddings