MY JOURNEY
My journey began long before I knew what an engineer even was. As a kid I was fascinated with taking things apart and figuring out how they worked. I gravitated towards cars early on, and became obsessed with them in high school. After high school I was accepted into Western Washington University, and the Vehicle Research Institute. I quickly learned that the future of transportation was not represented in the vehicles currently being produced. Traditionally, it takes about 5 years for a large OEM to take a new vehicle concept and turn it into a product ready to be released to the public. While I understand why it happens this way, I always believed that there has to be a more efficient way of developing products.
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Upon graduation I dedicated my career to advancing technology and bringing smarter, more efficient ways to develop new products. Starting in 2008, I spent my first 8 years at US Hybrid in Torrance, California (with a brief sabbatical in 2011-2012 at CODA Automotive, before it went bankrupt), overseeing the mechanical engineering department as well as vehicle integration. I was exposed to HV batteries, various motors types, power electronics development, and overall vehicle system architectures. I built BEVs, various hybrid layouts and even hydrogen fuel cell platforms. I was able to learn and grow at my pace, and take on any challenge that arose. I worked on commercial vehicles like step vans and semi trucks, as well as more niche applications like off-highway equipment, military vehicles and street sweepers. Some of the vehicles I designed over a decade ago, are still on the roads to this day.
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In 2016 I was contacted by a couple of founders of a new transportation technology company that wanted to bring EV technology to commercial trucking. They saw all of the miles being put on step vans, semi trucks and other medium and heavy duty vehicles, and wanted to build a company whose sole focus was making them all electric. Being the first full time hire at the company now known as Xos Trucks, and the only person for the first few years with any actual experience building these types of vehicles, I quickly found myself not only designing and developing the vehicle architectures and platforms, but also building up the entire engineering department from scratch. Even with an engineering department and integration shop of less than 10 people, it took us less than a year to get to our first EV conversion prototype, ET1, and less than 2 years before we were producing our own powered medium duty chassis. I spent 4 years there, watching it grow from a couple of guys in an old warehouse, to a full production, publicly traded company, before it was time for me to seek new endeavors.
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In 2021, I spent a brief time at Canoo, as the vehicle integration engineer developing their MD platform, before landing at Czinger Vehicles. As their first EV hybrid powertrain design engineer, I again found myself as the only person with any practical experience on anything high voltage. I helped them develop what would become the initial production hybrid drivetrain, working with various suppliers and doing all the packaging and HV harness routing for a 1200hp hybrid hypercar. I watched that prototype version of that vehicle break lap records at both Laguna Seca and COTA, proving that the architecture we were working on was legitimate. After a year, it was time for me to move on, and I landed a position at Gale Banks Engineering (Banks Power), where the company was embarking on a new adventure to bring hybrid technology to the aftermarket diesel engine industry. I took on the task of educating my coworkers and managers on the ins and outs of EV/hybrid vehicle development, and helped them design the architecture for the companies first hybrid vehicle integration. It was an exciting adventure, but something else was gnawing at me, a desire to build something on my own.
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So in the beginning of 2023, I left the comforts of a traditional 9-5 and started my own engineering services firm. Here is where Genesis Engineering allows me to take the years of knowledge and experience I have over a variety of disciplines and offer companies the ability of innovate and ideate quickly, and efficiently. My goal is to allow anyone with a dream or a desire to build that concept with a basis of physics and engineering. It is through my unique career trajectory that I can offer people the ability to think outside the box, and explore something that has never been created. Let me help you bring that idea to reality, and let's all work together to engineer the future.