Staff Mechanical Engineer, Power Electronics · Jan 2014 – Jun 2022
Tesla
Nine years of charger, DC-DC and test hardware at the highest volumes in the industry, where architecture decisions are cost decisions and a cent is a program.
Patented press-fit
A design to replace fasteners for joining the PCBA to the heatsink, cutting cycle time, PCBA real estate and cost.
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PCS2: Bidirectional on-board charger for vehicle-to-grid
11.5 kW bidirectional on-board charger with 800 V / 48 V DC-DC for vehicle-to-grid, shipped in Cybertruck.
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Semi Truck HV-DCDC
A 1000 V to 400 V conversion system feeding the Semi’s thermal and pneumatic compressors, from prototype to die casting.
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Model 3 PCS1 cost-down
$100M/year in savings, a 30% cost reduction on Tesla’s on-board charger, moving the architecture from 48A to 32A.
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Model 3 PCS1 reliability
Validation and reliability testing for the Model 3 on-board charger and DC-DC, lifting fleet-wide quality from 70% to over 97%.
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Automated power electronics burn-in testers
End-to-end design and deployment of automated burn-in and functional test equipment, scaling capacity from 15k to 100k units a year.
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