MY EXPERIENCE

Was one of the founding members of Gradiant Corporation. I've lead the research and new product development for Gradiant Corporation and its subsidiaries since the company's inception. Led the expansion of the headquarters into Pacific Asia region. Helped grow the company into 200+ employees, 5+ subsidiaries world wide, and over $100M evaluation. Group has developed Carrier Gas Extraction, Counterflow Reverse Osmosis, Selective Chemical Extraction, Carrier Gas Concentrator, Free Radical Disinfection, with over 200+ patent applications worldwide.

I did my thesis on Multistage Bubble Column Dehumidifiers. This would be one of the key component developments that would allow Carrier Gas Extraction to become CAPEX affordable. Developed over 5 different iterations of this device.

I ran the summer freshman pre-orientation program that would introduce incoming MIT students to mechanical engineering. 32 students would come together to design soccer robots and compete in a tournament at the Boston Museum of Science.

The goal was to do the conversion of a Mercury Milan hybrid to a full electric vehicle. This vehicle would be used to test the feasibility of rapidly recharging vehicles in under 11 minutes in order to travel 200 miles. The vehicle used a 250 hp, 3-phase AC induction motor donated by SatCon, and 8,000 lithium iron phosphate cells from A123Systems.

Working towards building an atomic force microscope (AFM) that is capable of imaging semiconductor wafers and photomasks at high speed and with high resolution. Our high speed AFM is able to scan a full range of 50 microns by 50 microns at a speed of 1000 lines (i.e. take 1 image a second) with a resolution of 0.1 nm. We are expecting this scanner to be able to scan at 1000kHz (i.e. 1000 times faster than conventional AFM).

VDS had an ambitious goal of making a parallel hybrid vehicle with 200 mpge for the Indian Market. I worked in Pune, India developing the supply necessary to the building and testing of the carbon fiber safety crumble zones on the car.