CTO on every program.
Engineer on every bench.
I take on hardware programs as their technical owner — architecture, engineering, manufacturing, cert — from the first sketch through shipping product. Fractional / interim CTO for founders and teams building serious embedded, robotics, or industrial hardware.
Ad-hoc CTO
I own the hard technical and product decisions early — the ones that determine whether the next twelve months are spent building — or rebuilding.
One accountable owner
Architecture, mechanical, electrical, embedded, firmware, and application decisions — made by one person and held together across the whole product. A small trusted network handles specialist fabrication and research when scale demands it.
Production partner
I design for manufacturing from day one. Factory selection, DFM, deployment, and long-term support — not a prototype tossed over the wall.
I work across the full hardware product development process — from product definition and system architecture through prototype, validation, and production. The work that decides whether a product actually ships is the transition from prototype to production. It is where most hardware programs stall.
Most teams can build.
Very few build the right thing.
Products I owned end-to-end. Each one shipped because the hard decisions were made early.
Aerones
Infrastructure leadership for the world's leading robotic wind turbine service company.
- Custom battery packs replacing diesel generators
- Raspberry Pi → Beckhoff industrial control migration
- Starlink + LTE connectivity for remote field ops
- AI-driven LPS pre-screening across 27 countries
AimRobotics
Robotic dispensing tools deployed in tier-1 manufacturing.
- Custom motors, electronics, control systems
- Production-deployed at tier-1 OEMs
NovaticLab
Full-stack clinical lab automation across E. Gulbja Laboratory.
- Custom AMRs and robotic sample handling
- Self-sampling kiosks across multiple sites
Rheo Dive
Smart dive mask with HUD and dive computer.
- Custom optics, PCBA, silicone tooling
- POC → EVT → DVT → PVT → mass production
- iOS companion app
Marconi Technologies
Life-safety power and embedded systems for buildings where failure is a safety event.
- UPS platforms for FDNY communication systems
- Active engagement
Prototypes don't fail in production.
Decisions do.
Decisions before code.
Engineering talent is rarely the bottleneck. Direction is. I force architectural, commercial, and production decisions early, when they're still cheap to fix.
Prototypes that prove something.
I don't build prototypes to look impressive. I build them to kill bad assumptions fast, validate the risky paths, and leave a clear line to production.
Production-biased from day one.
Every decision is checked against how the product gets built, deployed, serviced, and scaled. If it can't survive a factory or the field, it doesn't ship from me.
If this needs to ship,
let's talk.
I take on a small number of programs at a time. Every engagement starts with defining the right path — before any build. NDA before detailed discussion; comfortable inside your procurement or vendor-qualification process.