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George Franklin
Youth Outreach
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is a Resident of Double Rock Housing
David Manning
Design Drafter
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-t-manning/
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is based in Sydney Australia, has been supporting BOOM with CAD Modelling and design support since 2020. David is a Design Drafter with over 25 years experience in many industries and drafting disciplines. He is Founder and Chief Designer of “3DOM Engineering” a freelance and contract CAD Design, Coaching, and 3D Printing business. David is passionate about design, engineering and technology as well as supporting worthy causes that enable people to be the best that they can be.
Thomas Fitzgerald
Principal Solution Architect
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-fitzgerald-6a826214/
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is a Principal Solution Architect at Autodesk, CAD Specialist and adviser for our battery-pack design. Thomas is skilled in 3D Design and design automation solutions for the manufacturing industry. He's also an extremely inventive designer, hardworking, and a generous, humble spirit.
Julian Farnam
Senior Technical Applications Engineer
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-farnam-6a44616/
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is a Senior Technical Applications Engineer at Fictiv, CAD Specialist and adviser for our battery-pack design. Julian was Director of Chassis Development at Boson Electric Motorcycles, Industrial Designer at Dolby Labs, and designer of lithium cell battery packs for Boosted Boards.
Francois Brahic
Lead Product Designer
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/francois-brahic-63545b2
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is the Lead Product Designer at 219 Design and is helping the BOOM develop our battery mounting system. Francois' sweet spot is the intersection of Mechanical Engineering, UX design, and Industrial Design, from conception to mass production. Wotta massive sweet spot! His work includes a low-cost medical device for remote communities in India, surgical robotics, and a networked e-scooter lock. Francois is a wilderness adventurer, loves backpacking the Sierras, and being a role-model for his 8 month old daughter, Cora.
Nick Brennan
Design Engineer
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-brennan-85b6a256//
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is prototyping the BOOM's custom wireless hardware and firmware. As a design engineer at Keysight Technologies, Nick designs mixed-signal hardware, gateware (FPGA), firmware, and software for instrumentation platforms, microwave network analysis, and automated calibration. By night, Nick enjoys his motorcycle and tending to his honeybees.
Avnish Aggarwal
Audio Engineer
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/avnish-aggarwal-507175/
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is helping the BOOM improve the audio-quality of our boombox, with absolutely stellar embedded design-prototyping of the BOOM's original Sweep Spectrum Analyzer. Previously, Avi developed Python blackbox tests of wireless chargers for Laird. Earlier in his career, he fine-tuned firmware on the earliest TCP/IP cards -- before TCP/IP was a standard -- and chaired RFC 1001. Avi enjoys sipping Chai tea, listening to classical Indian music, and spending time with his inventive granddaughter.
Sam Truesdale
Product Quality Manager
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-truesdale-b586357
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helps ensure the BOOM's mechanical engineering supports our educational mission. Like, designing a toolkitthat keeps tools from getting lost, and making sure boombox features are not too hard to build-- or too easy.
JD David
Loudspeaker Systems Engineer
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakdawgus
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is helping the BOOM create a kickass boombox, by evaluating driver parameters, enclosure volumes, amplifiers, equalization, and more. He is an experienced loudspeaker systems engineer from Boston Acoustics, where he brought numerous loudspeaker products to market, before joining Dolby Labs to deploy audio codecs and creative tools.
Sean O'Callaghan
Electronics Genius
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dawnofthecomputer@gmail.com
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is an electronics genius. Check out his 800W Class-D amplifier design. Sean is working with the BOOM on Class D amplifier design and power supplies.
Bryan Day
Musical Artist
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https://www.bryanday.net
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is a musical improviser, instrument inventor, recording artist, illustrator, installation artist, and Electrical Engineer. He has generously donated his time and incredible creativity to the BOOM. Bryan solved several of our critical engineering challenges, including our battery and pcb mounting methods and more. Bryan is a stellar contributor to our core boombox design. Thank you, Bryan!
Peter Ossian
Embedded Engineer
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msuossianpe@gmail.com
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is an embeddded engineer. Peter is working with the BOOM on microcontroller hardware, UML, and firmware.
John Weiss
BOOM Founder
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http://bayviewboom.org
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is Project Lead
Monica Ruck
Grantwriter
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Elina Lin
Administrator
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Eva Lee
Online Marketer
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is our online marketing specialist.
Olivia Li
Graphic Designer
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https://www.facebook.com/olivia.land
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is our graphic designer.
Gaëlle Vaudaine
Web Developer
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http://tarabusk.net/web-developer.php
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is our web developer.
Kevin Yu
Web Developer
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https://kevinyu-dev.netlify.app/
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is passionate about building creative and unique web experiences, prioritizing the "fun factor." Outside of the web, Kevin enjoys the energy and discipline of bodybuilding, immersing himself in video games, and hitting the pickleball court.
Yukari Tanaka
Artist
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http://www.yukarivapor.com/
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is a San Francisco based digital illustrator and photographer. Yukari assisted the BOOM with artist-communication.