Thesis: Accelerated Cleantech Hardware Product Development Responsibilities include:

• Utilized K-means clustering on millions of data points, found representative set of conditions to test solar module, increased energy yield predictive ability by over 3.5%
• Mapped workflows of product development process, adopted complexity metrics, developed operationaland technological strategies for accelerating system development
• Interviewed 55 CEO’s or CTO’s in early stage hardware companies
• Collaborated with sociologists using qualitative and quantitative research methodology to uncover bot-tle necks in startup processes

Responsibilities include:

• Advised company and customers on solar cell material specifics
• Developed guide for successful technologists and financier interactions
• Represented the company for customer site visits & industry conference

Thesis:Oxygen Defect Engineering for Silicon Solar Cell Applications: Process Design and Modeling

• Demonstrated a feasible manufacturing solution for efficiency and yield losses due to oxygen
• Modelled solar cell devices demonstrating higher efficiencies at lower material cost for device stackswith thinner cells

Thesis: Enzymatic Fuel Cells: Review of Current Research and Preliminary Characterization Using Neutron Radiography

• Ex-Situ and In-Situ neutron imaging of enzymatic electrochemical fuel cells
• Design and development of a therapeutic arm holder for rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy

• Modeled thermal properties of instrument module radiator for James Webb Space Telescope
• Modeling and analysis of variable conductance heat pipe for the Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring ofPollution Satellite
• CAD modeling of Geo-synchronous Earth Monitoring Satellite

• Managed qualification of door handle pack, coordinating international imports
• Supported copper tube machine relocation on the plant floor
• Facilitated insourcing of injection molded parts