​New Energy Technology
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Design, Engineering and Product Development

​Original designs and optimization of early concepts for game-changing energy technology
Fuel Cell Bus Design and Deployment
What I did:
  • 2000 - 2003 Vancouver BC: Lead engine control software team for Daimler fuel cell bus
  • 2003 - 2006 Germany: Lead field service across 10 European cities
  • 2006 - 2008 Vancouver BC: Lead Ballard's 6th generation fuel cell bus module electrical team, powering the buses serving the 2010 Olympics
  • 2018 - 2024 California & beyond: Developed North American fuel cel bus market, growing over 20x across this time, building funding and supporting regulations while educating and developing new field demonstrations
CUTE final program report linked here
Home Wind Power - First UL Certification​

​What I did:
  • Built and lead a small engineering team to redesign the world's leading sub-kilowatt wind turbine, leading to tripling of sales at 1/10 of the prior warranty rate
  • Designed fully analog turbine control board with variable hysteresis, PWM controlled active rectifier, and various automated testing and data collection equipment
  • ​Co-wrote the world's first small wind turbine IEC design standard, then successfully certified our turbine to this standard with UL!
  • ​NREL report from testing for first ever small wind turbine certification effort - linked here

400kW Distributed Generation Turbine: Concept to Hardware

What I did:  
  • Architectural design of first sub-megawatt variable speed induction generator wind turbine
  • Lead small design team for structural, powertrain, electrical, blade and nacelle design, from concept to functional hardware on the floor in under one year
Wind Power Utility Inter-tied Converter Development
What I did:
  • Lead power electronics design team to create a first-of-a-kind silicon carbine 60kW single PCB power converter
  • Project management for testing facility 
  • Electromechanical simulation of large rotor short circuit events​
Camp Pendleton Microgrid
Blackstart Capable Microgrid, with 100kWh Flywheel  
What I did:
  • ​Design of microgrid control strategy for PV + flywheel storage microgrid at Camp Pendleton
  • Design and build of microgrid testing facility, with multiple storage technologies including flow batteries, flywheels, and salt water batteries
  • Testing and validation of CEC funding microgrid project