WORKED WITH
Deep Sentinel
Maker Media
Lehigh University
Amazon
HP
O'Reilly Media
FLX Solutions
15+ years
leading product across AI hardware, SaaS, and consumer electronics
AI patents
2 awarded, plus 10+ provisional patents in process
77+ issues
of HackSpace magazine's Best of Breed column, 2018 to 2024
10,000+
people taught to solder through Maker Faire's Learn to Solder program
500,000+
learners have taken my LinkedIn Learning course
FULL-TIME OR FRACTIONAL
Where I can help
01
VP of Product
Roadmap, requirements, and KPIs, UX/UI, prototyping, owned end to end as a full-time or fractional product leader.
02
Hardware product development
Connected and consumer devices from concept through manufacturing, supply chain, and launch.
Full-time, fractional, or advisory. I work best where hardware, software, and a real customers meet.
03
AI product strategy
Turning models into products customers pay for, from edge AI on devices to the software around them.
04
Kit and education design
Electronics kits, curricula, and maker content for brands that want people to learn by building.
SELECTED WORK
Finished products
DEEP SENTINEL · VP OF PRODUCT · 2023 TO 2026
AI home security, from model to device to app
Led company-level product and portfolio strategy across AI model development and deployment, integrated devices, and customer-facing software. Owned the roadmap, requirements, and KPI framework.
FLX SOLUTIONS · 2021 TO 2023
MAKER MEDIA · 2007 TO 2012
MAKE-branded kits, sold worldwide
Led global manufacturing and launch of MAKE product lines and educational kits, online and in retail.
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY · 2012 TO 2021
A master's program for founders
Co-founded and co-directed the M.Eng. in Technical Entrepreneurship, launching dozens of student startups.
Program named Best in North America for Talent Development by UEDA
AI robotic inspection platforms
Head of Product across hardware, software, and data. Winner of both phases of the DOE E-ROBOT Prize.
TEACHING
Courses: More than half a million learners and counting
LINKEDIN LEARNING
500,000+ learners
O'REILLY MEDIA
Arduino Prototyping Basics
1 hr 53 min · Beginner to intermediate
A systematic path from idea to working prototype: planning, testing, and producing Arduino projects, from the first breadboard to a printed circuit board.
MVP PROTOTYPING
CIRCUITS AND SENSORS
POWER
Nine+ years as a professor, plus video courses that teach the hands-on skills behind commercializing technology and shipping consumer hardware.
WRITING
Books and magazine columns
BOOKS
Getting Started with Soldering
Electricity for Young Makers
Make: Lots O' Bots
MintDuino
Explaining how things work, in print, for beginners and professionals alike.
MAGAZINES
77 Best of Breed columns in HackSpace, 2018 to 2024, plus The MagPi and 24 articles in Make:
UNEXPECTED LABS · MANUFACTURING
dLUX-dLITE handcrafted LEDs
Every dLUX-dLITE was designed and manufactured in New Jersey. I built the prototypes in house, along with the production system: custom co-botic robotics, custom tooling, and a patent-pending manufacturing process. No two LEDs are exactly alike.
PATENT PENDING
Sold internationally through Adafruit, DigiKey, Pimoroni, and PiShop.
Visit dluxdlite.com
MADE IN NJ
12 DESIGNS
BUILDS
Projects: Built & Documented
Step-by-step builds published in Make:, HackSpace, and on Instructables, where my projects have 195,000+ views.
ABOUT
Trained as a product designer. Still building things by hand.
Parsons-trained in product design, I've worked as a metalsmith, illustrator, professor, and product executive. That mix is the point: I can sit with engineers on a board layout in the morning and with a CEO on the roadmap in the afternoon.
RECOGNITION
DOE E-ROBOT Prize winner, Phases I and II · UEDA Best in North America for Talent Development · 2 awarded AI patents
CONTACT
Have a product that needs to ship?
I'm open to full-time VP of Product roles and select consulting work. Tell me where things stand, and I'll reply within one business day.