Founder & Product Developer (Part-Time / Project-Based) at C3rta / Sowp Technologies (2024-01 – Present)
- Built C3rta, a full-stack equipment inspection and maintenance platform using React, TypeScript, Node/Express, PostgreSQL/Supabase, OCR, QR verification, automated workflows, testing, and cloud deployment.
- Use AI-assisted development and connected-device concepts involving machine vision, embedded controllers, LoRa, sensors, and operational data capture.
Owner & Principal Engineer (Part-Time / Project-Based) at Reliant Engineering Services (2019-01 – Present)
- Lead project scoping, technical delivery, field problem solving, and client coordination across mechanical, structural, lifting, inspection, and product-development assignments.
- Translate ambiguous field problems into practical designs, test approaches, fabricated solutions, and implementation plans.
Field & Design Engineer at Cellula Robotics (2019-01 – 2020-12)
- Supported three successful field operations involving small ROVs, approximately five-metre AUVs, and a semi-autonomous underwater drilling system.
- Acted as primary field technical authority for vehicle readiness and operations, directing system-level decisions ashore and coordinating with the vessel captain during water operations.
- Supported a three-month sea-trial program across two AUV configurations, including an extended vehicle with a three-metre fuel-cell section.
- Converted trial evidence into larger control planes, revised controllers, and new propeller configurations; validated mission planning, onboard equipment, propulsion, recovery, and vehicle behaviour.
- Resolved ground loops, accelerated corrosion, motor sizing, propulsion, packaging, assembly access, manufacturability, and electrical-mechanical interface failures.
- Designed thruster, propeller, and battery off-gassing tests and improved fuel-cell workflow and packaging for pressure housings intended for approximately three-kilometre depth.
Grade Control & Engineering Lead at LSLP (Ledcor & Sicim Partnership) (2020-01 – 2022-12)
- Led up to 20 surveyors and machine-control support for 30 excavators and 15 dozers operating concurrently on the Trans Mountain pipeline project.
- Integrated GNSS, machine automation, cameras, field sensors, survey data, and digital terrain models into complete equipment-control systems.
- Worked with Komatsu, Topcon, Trimble, and dealer engineers to create custom machine-control configurations for excavators and non-standard attachments.
- Captured approximately five kilometres of right-of-way per day by Wingtra drone and maintained information flow supporting a 3D model across roughly 200 kilometres.
Field & Design Engineer at Weir-Jones Engineering Consultants (2017-01 – 2018-12)
- Independently or in two-person teams designed, built, tested, installed, and commissioned custom sensing systems from prototype through field deployment, often in remote locations.
- Instrumented buried pipelines for strain, vibration, soil movement, and dynamic pressure; fibre-optic systems detected pump-pressure surges through pipe sections.
- Deployed systems for corrosive sulfur-loading equipment, earthquake response, railway rockfall hazards, BC Ferries, and Seattle-area ferry vessels, owning calibration, troubleshooting, and field acceptance.
GPS / Engineering Coordinator at Midwest Pipelines Inc. (2013-01 – 2017-12)
- Implemented machine-control systems across excavator fleets and developed survey and construction models for pipeline operations.
- Coordinated GNSS, equipment, survey, and engineering workflows and analyzed construction data for anomalies.
Field Engineering Support at Michels Canada (2023-01 – 2023-12)
- Reviewed designs, removed workflow inefficiencies, developed constructible field solutions, and helped engineering teams navigate project controls and bureaucracy more effectively.
