Architecture & technical risk review
Independent review of embedded, hardware, FPGA, software, reliability, and verification strategy—followed by a prioritized action plan.
Explore this serviceEmbedded systems · Medical devices · Aerospace · Robotics
Senior technical leadership for complex systems in the physical world.
I help teams architect, integrate, recover, and deliver high-reliability embedded systems—especially when the program is interdisciplinary, safety-critical, or stuck between teams.
What I help solve
When the visible problem is not the real obstacle.
Complex programs rarely stall because one engineer cannot write one more driver. They stall at interfaces: architecture, ownership, integration, verification, risk, and execution. That is where I do my best work.
Program recovery & integration
Find the real blockers, clarify interfaces, create an executable integration path, and restore confidence through testable increments.
Explore this serviceFractional technical leadership
Senior architecture and engineering leadership for teams that need experienced judgment without immediately adding a full-time executive.
Explore this serviceSelected work
Depth across the system. Judgment across the program.
Turning ambitious spacecraft research into a testable flight system
Flight-hardware leadership, fault-tolerant Zynq avionics, HWIL and flat-sat architecture, ADCS integration, and reproducible development workflows.
Bringing firmware, motion, thermal control, assay, and manufacturing together
Embedded leadership for a high-speed antibiotic susceptibility platform moving from development toward product readiness.
Building the embedded foundation of a life-sustaining wearable device
Founding-team architecture across board-level electronics, real-time firmware, safety-critical controls, integration, and early verification.
The low-level foundation behind whole-system troubleshooting
Artificial intelligence and robotics at NASA, VxWorks platform work at Wind River, and RTOS board bring-up at Sun Microsystems.
How I work
Hands-on leadership without losing the whole system.
“I can move from architecture and technical strategy into board bring-up, real-time firmware, FPGA integration, diagnostics, verification, and production-readiness work when that is what the program needs.”
The goal is not to become the permanent bottleneck. It is to clarify the system, reduce risk, strengthen the team, and leave behind an executable engineering path.
Writing
Ideas for people building consequential systems.
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Working through a difficult architecture, integration, or technical leadership problem?
I work with product teams, startups, research programs, and engineering organizations on high-reliability systems where hardware, firmware, software, verification, and execution have to converge.
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