Electronics Engineer

Hello! I’m a Seattle, WA based electrical and electronics engineer whose work often ends up in unusual and remote places around Earth. I work for the University of Washington - Applied Physics Laboratory, where I design electronic systems and circuits that enable oceanographic scientists to perform their missions and collect the science data they need.

Previously, I designed avionics for PART 23 autonomous aircraft and commercial spacecraft at Reliable Robotics and SpaceX respectively.

Amateur Radio

I’ve been a licensed amatuer radio (HAM) operator since 2004 - my FCC-assigned callsign is KB1LQD. Amateur Radio is a major reason I became an electronics engineer; it sparked an early fascination with moving electrons around that guided me to my career.

It’s a hobby I reture to again and again - building my own radio equipment, chatting with other operators around the world (often via Morse Code), and hiking radios up mountains for Summits-On-the-Air (SOTA).

Other Hobbies

You can find me climbing rocks around the Pacific Northwest or biking around Seattle.