Grab a beer (or your preferred beverage of choice), take a seat, and join me on the back porch where we can talk engineering.
I benefited from some extraordinary mentors over the course of my career. This is my way of passing along some of what they—and experience—taught me.
This is a growing collection of practical engineering lessons, learned over three decades, drawn from developing high-reliability mechanisms, structures, and scientific instruments for space exploration.
If you really want to know how I got started, what I've done, and where the name came from, you'll find that here.
A few tools, references, and odds and ends that I've found useful over the years. Perhaps you'll find something valuable there too.
Are you working on a difficult design? Sometimes a pair of fresh eyes helps.
If you're wrestling with a difficult design problem—whether it's a precision mechanism, an opto-mechanical system, a structure, or something else entirely—I'd be happy to help. After more than three decades designing high-reliability hardware for NASA's space exploration missions, I now consult with companies developing precision mechanical systems. If you think another experienced perspective would be valuable, I'd enjoy the conversation.