Symbotic | 2016 – Present

Senior Embedded Engineer (June 2019 – Present)

  • Safety Certification : Writing the Safety Software Development Plan and implementing Symbotic side verification checks to meet said plan.

  • Critical Escalation Lead: Serve as the primary point of contact for corrective action investigations and high-stakes customer support, performing deep-dive root cause analysis on complex system failures.

  • Systems Architecture: Author comprehensive software design documentation for new robotic features and hardware platforms, bridging the gap between legacy products and next-generation technology.

  • Source Control Administrator: Act as the internal Git administrator, managing global releases, tagging strategies, and repository integrity across the engineering organization.

Scrum Master (October 2021 – Present)

  • Agile Facilitation: Execute all Scrum Events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, and Retrospectives, to ensure continuous team flow and high velocity.

  • Backlog Management: Own the Jira board upkeep and backlog grooming, prioritizing tasks, and removing technical impediments for the development team.

Interim Manager (October 2022 – July 2023)

  • Strategic Alignment: Partnered with upper management to define team priorities and delegated high-impact work to ensure alignment with core business objectives.

  • Departmental Liaison: Acted as the sole Point of Contact (POC) for the SAS team, representing the group in internal leadership meetings and managing cross-functional work requests.

Electrical Test Engineer (June 2016 – March 2019)

  • Manufacturing Operations: Worked to guarantee 100% uptime for the manufacturing floor by maintaining all operational tools and software systems.

  • Failure Analysis: Performed rigorous forensic analysis on hardware units returned from the field to identify patterns and drive engineering improvements.

  • Tool Development: Designed and deployed custom software tools to automate and assist manufacturing technicians in production workflows.

HighRes BioSolutions | 2014 – 2016

Automation Software Engineer

  • Global Systems Implementation: Partnered with international clients to deploy automated laboratory procedures, managing the full lifecycle from system programming to on-site installation and training.

  • Robotic Programming: Developed custom robot control logic and implemented hardware drivers using C# to integrate complex laboratory equipment.

College and Internships

Academic Technology Center May 2013-May 2014

Worked with Students, Teachers, and Faculty to provide any help needed with AV equipment. Worked a front desk interacting with clients face to face to advise and diagnose problems with equipment. Supplied tech support over the phone for on campus systems. Helped support online classrooms to facilitate high quality teaching to students over the internet. Worked in the ATC printing posters for on campus events and many departments at school.

Bluesky Scientific Internship Summer of 2013

Worked with a Gumstix Linux computer to develop a system to calculate data loss in flash memory due to unceremonious power loss. This involved programming the Gumstix computer to read characters in and write them to memory, then a transistor circuit would cut power to the computer. Upon reboot the file on the Gumstix would be read and compared to the master file from the server computer.