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About Me

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University
BFA Industrial Design, 2016

Experience

SnapCab Systems
Production Specialist; R&D Engineer
2022-2024
James A. White Construction
Assistant Project Manager
2020-2022
Voyage Auto
Research and Test Operations; UX Designer
2019-2020
Freelance Design/Build
Brooklyn
2018-2019; Ongoing
Uber Advanced Technologies Group
Test Specialist II; Test Engineer [Black Ops Team]
2016-2018
Piecemaker Technologies
Design Engineering Intern
2015

Design + Engineering Skills

Design for Manufacturing, Lean Principles Sketching, Rapid Prototyping, Test Engineering Design Engineering, Mechatronics Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Root Cause Problem Solving Design Research, User Testing Human Computer Interaction Environmental Health & Safety

Digital Tools

Solidworks, Mastercam, Vectric AutoCAD, Fusion 360, Inventor Rhino, Sketchup Blender, Dimension Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Premiere Pro Sketch, Figma HTML, CSS Python, JS

Fabrication Skills

CNC - Routing, Milling, Waterjet, Plasma, Laser CNC - Machine design and fabrication Machine Shop - Mill, Lathe, Tube Bending/Notching, Various Cutting/Drilling Additive Manufacturing - 3D printing (FDM, SLA, SLS) Wood Shop - Jointer, Planer, Table Saw, Drum Sander, etc... Welding - MIG, TIG, Arc Composites - Wet layup, Vacuum Infusion, Mold Making

Site designed and built by David Power ✌️

Misc Projects

Radio

Experimental Design / 2015

As our listening experience has become increasingly digital with near-limitless choices of music, we've lost some of the magic of the radio experience and nuance of our interaction with it.


While curious in form, controlling this device is meant to be intuitive and satisfying - remove a peg from the side and plug it into its correspondingly sized hole. Volume is controlled by a massive aluminum dial which provides fine analog control, and is a nod to the big fat volume dials of the past. Each hole plays a different genre of music - giving you control over the general mood but intentionally limiting your control of what plays to ease the anxiety of endlessly scrolling to find the perfect track.


Inside the radio lies an Arduino Uno microcontroller wired to IR sensors inside the peg holes, an FM radio module, speaker, and battery. Hover image to take a look inside.

Hoverbro

Hackathon / 2015

Hoverbro is a personal transportation concept designed and built during Build18, an annual 5-day hackathon at Carnegie Mellon University.


Dual accelerometors drive hub motors constantly working to keep everything upright. In our mockup, the rider pushes and pulls levers to drive forwards/back or turn, but the possibliites for input are endless. For example, a handicapped person with little range of motion could drive with minimal appendageal movement.


Other potential use cases include acting as a "mule", carrying hundreds of pounds as someone nudges it along. Adding vison sensors would enable it to simply follow along. This could greatly lighten the load of physically demanding jobs in incommodious spaces, such as delivery in urban areas or handling of baggage or construction materials.


Collaboration with Carter Sharer and Lucas Bruder

16.01.15
Build18 / Engineering Competition

Selfie Booth

Lightbox NYC / 2018

This mobile "selfie booth" was constructed for the NYC based event services company Lightbox. It's equipped with a camera, mini pc, LCD screen, keyboard, and halo light. Made from steel tube and plate, it features a telescoping neck for height adjustment and a low, wide stance to keep it steady during crowded events.

Bat Drawer Pulls

Production Design / 2015

These bat-shaped drawer pulls were created as a production prototyping exercise. After designing in CAD, a master model was produced using an SLA 3D printer, which is capable of capturing much more detail than a FDM filament printer. The master was used to create a female silcone mold, from which subsequent bats could be cast out of resin. Each casting had a brass threaded insert included to accept a screw for mounting to a drawer.

Aluminum Vessels

Experimental Design / 2015

These vessels were created to challenge the form of everyday objects. Intrigued by the ubiquity and banal design of medication bottles, I experimented with various materials that could add both intrique and function to this item produced and discarded billions of times a year. By fabricating the vessels with seamless screw caps and polising them to a gleaming finish, nosy fingers may dismiss them as insignficant decorative objects. While originally inspired by pill bottles, they'd make a great home for other sensitive or valuable items like cash and jewelry.