Engineered Consumer Products

Smart IoT Light Switch 

  • Engineered to industrial design vision
  • Integrated far-field mics and high performance speaker for full voice assistant integration
  • Designed to and evaluated to UL requirements

Smart Thermostatecobee4_2

  • Engineered to industrial design vision
  • Integrated far-field mics and high performance speaker for full Amazon Alexa integration
  • Debugged Chinese manufacturing
  • Won CNET Editors’ Choice Award

Solar Inverter

  • Performed thermal/CFD analyses to predict performance in a wide range of ambient and mounting configurations
  • Assisted with UL/IEC certification process negotiating with certification body
  • Designed low cost, welded sheet metal enclosure to NEMA 4X / IP 66

Consumer electronics controller

  • Engineered product from industrial designer’s sketches
  • Designed components for high volume injection molding and design for assembly in China
  • Assisted in preparation of working alpha unit and proof of concepts
  • Engineered shock absorption system and met customer’s acoustic expectations
  • Designed PCB and electronics mounting scheme
  • Used engineering analyses to support component design
  • Awarded “Best Hardware/Peripheral” 2007 E3 convention,  “Best Console Peripheral” 2007 IGN magazine, “Best New Gaming Hardware” 2007 GameSpot

Ruggized cell phone/PDA

  • Engineered water proof and shock proof cell phone/PDA with verification testing and FEA analysis
  • Featured in ID magazine

Personal transportation device

  • Specified water resistant power supply enclosure
  • Provided CAD and documentation support

UV surface cleaner

  • Engineered novel portable UV cleaner from Industrial Design to beta unit
  • Used CFD analysis to support fan sizing, venting and case design

Personnel locator

  • Engineered a robust, waterproof GPS based locator from proof of concept to alpha to production unit in less than 6 months
  • Worked in a small “Skunk works” team consisting of only 3 engineers
  • Managed Chinese production line start up effort