Work Experience
Ford Motor Company
Staff Motor Mechanical Design Engineer, Technical Lead · Oct 2024 – Present
- Leading development of a heavy rare-earth-free motor platform, achieving performance parity with legacy designs while eliminating supply-chain exposure to volatile magnet markets.
- Designed and stood up a $2M stator manufacturing pilot line to internalize prototype iteration, cost learning, and manufacturing readiness.
- Reduced component cost by 21% through supplier-facing DFM initiatives and first-principles process analysis.
Tesla, Inc.
Senior Motor Mechanical Design Engineer, Lead Rotor Engineer · Feb 2020 – Sep 2024
- Lead mechanical engineer on Tesla's rare-earth-free permanent magnet motor program. As covered in IEEE Spectrum
- Owned end-to-end rotor design for Cybertruck, Robotaxi, and the Model 3/Y refresh.
- Applied topology optimization to cut rotor mass by 15% while exceeding power density and fatigue life requirements.
- Built a Python-based automated high-voltage partial discharge tester that replaced a manual stator validation process and increased data collection by 300%.
Earlier Projects
FSAE — GGR19
Technical Director and chassis designer for uOttawa's Formula SAE team. Designed the frame using parametrized MATLAB tube-thickness optimization and a Solidworks-to-ANSYS analysis workflow.
Serpentronic
An Arduino-based snake-inspired robot that slithers by lifting and translating body segments. Sheet-metal fabrication with two custom-etched PCBs (a servo power bus and the controller board).
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