Products · Teams · Strategy
Breadth by Design, Depth on Demand.
I lead engineering at Williams AV, where we build assistive listening systems (including Bluetooth Auracast) for classrooms, courtrooms, and other venues that need to work for people with hearing loss. Before that, nine years at Rockwell Automation going from embedded engineer to product manager. Before that, electrical engineer at Joby Aviation.
A startup, a Fortune 500, and now a PE-backed small business. Each runs on a different playbook, and what works at one can actively hurt you at another.
01 — What I Do
Areas of Focus
Product Development
Concept to production, hardware through software. Most of my experience is at the seam where firmware, electronics, and software have to behave like one product instead of three.
Team Building
Hiring engineers, designing the team structure around them, and figuring out how much process is enough without becoming the thing that slows everyone down.
Technical Strategy
Build vs. buy, architecture choices, and roadmap calls when the budget is real and the answer isn't obvious.
02 — Experience
Career Arc
Director of Engineering
Williams AV
Leading engineering for assistive listening systems, including Bluetooth Auracast.
PE-backed small business
Engineer → Lead → PM
Rockwell Automation
Started in embedded firmware, ended up in product management. Learned how big-company engineering actually works.
Fortune 500
Electrical Engineer
Joby Aviation
Electrical engineer on eVTOL aircraft systems, working in collaboration with NASA.
Venture-backed startup
MS Electrical Engineering
University of Minnesota
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on power and embedded systems.
Want to talk?
Open to conversations about building products and leading engineering teams. The harder the problem, the better.