No blueprint. No problem.

I work on things that don’t have answers yet. If your team is doing something for the first time- no instructions, no examples, no one who has done it before- that is exactly where I do my best work.

I work as an R&D Engineering Partner, embedded with teams of subject matter experts to bridge domain gaps and turn an ambitious vision but ambiguous pathway into discrete, achievable steps. I don’t replace your experts. I act as a catalyst unlocking what they are already capable of by building the structure around them that lets them focus on what they do best.

How I work

-Team first: productivity follows culture. I build the environment where your experts can do their best work together

-Systems engineering: a framework borrowed from aerospace that surfaces risks early, defines interfaces between disciplines, and holds costs until you know what you’re building

-Retiring uncertainty: the guiding principle for every work package and milestone. What can we do this week that teaches us something critical about the challenge ahead?

What this looks like in practice

-Designed an optical sensor four orders of magnitude faster and one order of magnitude more sensitive than the current state of the art

-Flew three biology experiments to the International Space Station for a fraction of the typical costs while achieving first-of-its-kind results

-Built an ammeter for single molecules capable of measuring down to 10⁻¹² amps

-Led a six person multidisciplinary team through eight months of isolation on a simulated Mars mission: our crew performance improvement was the highest of the study