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Automation’s steady march to increase material abundance while eliminating drudgery from the human experience is an evergreen source of inspiration for me. I'm passionate about robotics, sustainability, and responsible business. I love building teams while driving product discovery & strategy, low and high fidelity prototyping, DFM and transition to manufacturing.
I'm currently building Cargo, where we’re working to automate parcel delivery at scale. We started by taking jobs at FedEx and UPS where we lived the challenges the industry is facing today. Last mile process hasn’t changed much since 1950, but parcel volumes are growing rapidly (5x in the past decade). People and systems are breaking under the pressure. We have an ambitious vision for advanced automation in the last mile that creates tremendous value in the short term and enables a fully autonomous delivery future.
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Some background:
Cofounded Onda Design (now Sea Foundry) in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to automate coral farming
Advising and consulting with various startups in product strategy, user research, & prototyping
Key designer for "Elevate" ski exoskeleton at Roam robotics
Cofounded of 3rd Arm Inc with Dr. Kenneth Salisbury
Lead researcher on "3rd arm" wearable robotics initiative in Stanford AI Lab
MS in Engineering and product development @ Stanford d.school (Advisor: David Kelley), Stanford GSB Ignite
Schmidt Macarthur Circular Economy Fellow - system to give new parents frictionless access to products with dramatically less waste
Kickstarter campaign: "Zagbox" - sustainable desk organizers
Electronics design and manufacturing at Lutron electronics