Tyler Wickett

P.Eng. with 10+ years of experience integrating, testing, and troubleshooting complex physical systems across autonomous underwater vehicles, ROVs, heavy-equipment machine control, structural sensing, and connected products. Supported a three-month AUV sea-trial program across two vehicle configurations and led machine-control support for 45 concurrent pieces of heavy equipment and up to 20 surveyors across approximately 200 km of pipeline construction. Combines mechanical design, sensors, propulsion, GNSS, controls, field validation, manufacturability, and AI-assisted software development.

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.

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in Mechanical Engineering – Dalhousie University (2012-01 – 2016-12)