Hello!
Greetings to fellow fixers and internet denizens! I'm a Product Engineer at iFixit.
About Me
I graduated from Cal Poly in the Spring of 2012 with a degree in General Engineering. Some time before that, I spent a year learning Marine Engineering at Cal Maritime, where I got to work on big diesel engines and visit South America on the Training Ship Golden Bear:
After transferring to Cal Poly, I quickly got into Mechatronics, a multidisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on the combination of several kinds of engineering to design awesome systems, like this polar plotter, built in about four weeks with a near-zero budget:
For my senior project, I modified a model sailboat to operate autonomously, using all sorts of exciting electronics and programming:
Not long after graduating, I came to work at iFixit as a Technical Writer and Teardown Engineer. I tore down and wrote repair manuals for over 100 devices before I moved to our Tool development team to start working on designing innovative new repair tools like the Anti-Clamp and Soldering Splint.
Interests
I enjoy being a nerd, and I like to think it means being someone who takes their interests seriously. These are some of my interests:
- Woodworking
- Engineering
- Science fiction
- Fixing things
- Breaking things
- Traveling, hiking, boating
- Embedded programming and electronics