Technical Communication

Below are a selection of documents in different degrees of refinement and in no particular order that I have developed on my own in most cases and some as part of paid project work that I have permission to share.

  • This presents a concept for a streetboard electric skateboard that I worked on speculatively with a skateboard industry veteran

    SKT001 V01

  • This is a product concept that I worked on speculatively but did not pursue

    Carabiner Chargers V2

    Carabiner Chargers V1

  • This is some of the modeling I did at Mimeo Labs. The first section is a pneumatic model of a deformable liner used to drive liner design and the second is a system model of a pumping system.

    Mimeo modeling

  • This is a concept I worked on for a miniaturized sprayer mechanism speculatively in response to a design prompt

    Sprayer concept

  • This is a product concept for a connected rodent trapping system that I worked on speculatively but did not pursue.

    TrapSense

  • I have a concept to use webtools to automate different parts of the PD process. Specifically: test and automation equipment design and fabrication, development build management, and functional structures. The same concept can also be applied to clean air system deployment. The documents are works in process that were never shared externally. These concepts are inspired by automated tools that use web apps to combine DFM review and quoting such as SendCutSend along with work I have done on CAD/CAM integration.

    myPDlab working

    erector set pitch

  • This is a WIP analysis that I did as part of concept work on a proportional PWM controlled electromagnetic pneumatic valve. It contrasted different actuator topologies.

    EM Actuator

  • I developed a capacity model for engineering UV-C air disinfection solutions during my work on Haven Labs. The first link is for the peer reviewed paper that I was invited to publish in JR-NIST. It includes the capacity model, a dimensionless parameter to approximate room mixing, as well as an expression to identify optimal clean air rates.

    The second is the working deck that led to being invited to publish the paper.

    The third is a website that I developed to present to concepts in a more accessible form.

    The fourth is an analysis that I did in response to a paper published in Nature presenting findings on the efficacy of 222nm far-UV light sources. Using the capacity model I was able to identify that the presented results were seemingly impossible based on known inactivation dynamics. I presented this information to others in the space which led the authors of the paper to review their work and admit that there was a “decimal point error” in their work.

    Capacity Paper

    Exploring Germicidal Efficacy

    Haven Labs website

    Eadie Analysis

  • One element of my work at Haven Labs was exploring ways to make clean air systems more efficient through risk-adaptive control algorithms that responded to environmental and community-level signals. The scientific basis of the approach is included as an appendix in the capacity model paper I published and the documents below present some of the ideas as well.

    Haven iot is a proposal for an iot system that is specifically targeted to UV-C systems and includes deployment and administration features.

    Haven Mesh is a proposal for a risk-monitoring platform that can be integrated with any clean air hardware.

    BREATHE proposal is a proposal I developed based on a ARPA-H solicitation. It integrated the risk adaptive concepts with an existing digital platform and also presented a concept for sampling air using lateral flow assays and aerosol cyclone concentrators.

    AgAir is a proposal for using risk adaptive method in indoor agriculture.

  • The capacity modeling I did at Haven suggested that the capacity of a fixture is proportional to the beam path length. Using this insight I designed, prototyped, and validated a collimating reflector and then developed several reference integrations.

    Haven AC1 Preso is a proposal for a semi-enclosed fixture based on LPL technology. I ported this document into a survey website to feedback from target stakeholders (HVAC engineers, specifiers, and other space admins).

    I wrote a patent application for LPL concepts with formatting and filing support from a friend. The PCT application has published and the USPTO application is pending.

    I also wrote an early patent that recently granted with valuable claims relative to a conical reflector design.

  • I developed a concept lighting solution for refugee camps in africa in response to a design prompt.

    Community Power Lamps

  • I designed and built a prototype device to automate the months-long process of clearing animal brain samples for imaging. That prototype was successful and I then developed a proposal for a low-volume production device that was a more integrated product and addressed some of the performance limitations of the prototype.

    Clearbot