Experience and Projects

I’m an engineer and entrepreneur, and am passionate about emerging technologies and their commercialization. My technical interests span mechanics, electronics, and CS. I’ve worked in several research engineering, sales, and PM positions in the automotive and semiconductor photonics industries and have founded two startups.

Alumni ventures scout - Jan 2024 - present

CTO/Cofounder - Voxle - Sept 2023 - Feb 2024

| - Developing star-wars style table-top holograms using acoustic and optical levitation tech. Pre-seed round $650k+ raised.

- Hired and led 2 engineers to develop control codebase, prototype and physics simulator.

Amazon, Sr. PM-T - Connected devices and cloud services - May 2023 - Aug 2023

0xygen.io, Co-Founder and CPO - 2021 to 2023

| 0xygen.io

- Started and built web3 game API service to turn in-game assets into NFTs and vice-versa.

- Brought on 4 developers, generated $50k in revenue and integrated company with our biggest client. Exited in 2023.

- Coherent, inc 2020-2022 - Various Semiconductor and photonics engineering and commercial sales management positions

- Led the development of multi-million dollar UV laser material processing systems

- $20MM ARR in commercial sales my last year

Fellowships

TSMC Innovation fellow - 2022 - 2024 Fung institute announcement
Consortium fellow - 2022-2024
Patrick DeNeale rennaisance fellow - 2023 - 2024
Trione entrepreneurship fellow - 2023

Education

Columbia University - PhD, EECS Photonics 2024
University of California, Berkeley - MBA/MEng, Robotics and AI systems 2023 [Dropped out]
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - MEng, Systems Engineering - Photonics 2021
Case Western Reserve University - BSE, Mechanical Engineering 2018