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What Dan does for BES
Dan oversees crucial business development operations with BES, including management of cross-discipline development teams, architecture of product specifications, and mechanical design. He also provides business strategy consulting for clients, as well as defines and leads certification and standards testing efforts.
Dan’s successes include multiple concept-to-market successes from programs ranging between $50,000 to over $1M in size. His influence played a significant role in creating bootstrap growth of BES to multi-million revenue in less than five years.
Industry Experience
Before starting BES, Dan served as the director of Product Development and Manufacturing for a small boot-strapped startup called Clear Corporation, Inc. Before that, he was also the sole recipient of the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society US Navy Engineering Internship with Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in college. Dan's strong background in harsh-environment designs and testing is one of the many unique values he contributes to our team.
When Dan isn't at BES
He’s working hard with the tribulations and triumphs of creating a modern, connected home out of a forty-year-old house. He also mentors local startups in the community through the Boomtown accelerator program. In a past life, Dan built and maintained custom classic cars. Some were authentic restorations, such as a ’73 Volvo P1800ES and a ’71 Jaguar V12 XKE. Others were complete modernizations bringing the spirits of classics into the cutting-edge technology of today, such as a ’68 Corvette Stingray and a 70’s Toyota FJ-40. These days, Dan tries (and fails) at avoiding four-wheel vehicles whenever possible. Instead, he opts for riding motorcycles, road biking, and mountain biking. When the roads aren’t hospitable to bikes, Dan’s skiing down the slopes or scuba diving and capturing underwater photos.
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What Jone Does for BES
Jone works across the company to coordinate BES staff, clients, and other collaborators. Since co-founding BES, Jone has worked on over 200 projects ranging from aircraft navigation to smart pills to art robots. On a day to day basis, Jone works closely with the electrical and software teams to support embedded systems R&D. This often includes digital logic, analog circuitry, RF communication, power electronics, and design for manufacturing. Jone also frequently meets with clients to learn about their projects and goals, formulate plans and consulting proposals, and manage projects through their life-cycles.
Industry Experience
Jone worked for several local tech startup companies prior to co-founding BES. Pre-BES experience included electrical and mechanical development of a machine vision-based sensor for drinking water treatment plants, and control and data acquisition systems development for steam microturbines.
When Jone isn’t at BES
In free time, Jone enjoys hobby electronics and machine learning art projects, installation art, and VR development. Biking, running, climbing, yoga, and dance are Jone's favorite exercise activities.
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What Ryan does for BES
Ryan oversees every part of product design from inception to manufacturing, acting at various times as a project manager, design engineer, and occasional technician. His designs with BES clients have been sold in retailers like Costco and McGuckin’s Hardware. Others may be found in cockpits, automobiles, and kitchens across the globe. He specializes in optimizing designs for an intended audience, target production volume, and preferred manufacturing technique. Ryan continues his success forming local and offshore manufacturing supply chains. His efforts include forming important partnerships with manufacturers throughout the world and often involves refining designs for each manufacturer’s unique capabilities or requirements. He enjoys working closely with clients to create initial product sketches with an eye towards industrial design and moving rough concepts into manufacturable masterpieces.
Industry Experience
Before coming to BES, Ryan worked in the assembly and low-volume manufacturer of small electric vehicles. With prior experience as a car mechanic, he has always enjoyed working with his hands and maintains a keen understanding of design for assembly and manufacture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and biochemistry with a pre-medicine focus and has been certified as an EMT. Ryan studied ACL tissue regrowth throughout his graduate studies and volunteered in novel cancer research.
When Ryan isn’t at BES
Like a lot of Coloradans, Ryan can often be found climbing on a rock wall, hitting the slopes when there’s snow, or commuting by bike. He loves to cook, frequently inventing new recipes, and tries to find time for playing more volleyball and tennis. Ryan recently bought a new pair of inline skates and reminisces about the days when that would have been considered cool.
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What Max does for BES
Max’s primary responsibilities include designing and building mechanical interfaces of various products throughout production, including design for testing and manufacturing. His attention focuses on various manufacturing processes, such as machining, molding, and printing depending on project needs.
Industry Experience
Before moving to the United States from his home country of England in 2012, Max participated in projects with Rolls Royce and spent a summer internship with Thales UK working on military defense projects.
When Max isn’t at BES
Outside of BES, Max has a fairly active life. As a child, he grew up in the world of ski racing since his dad is a former competitor. Weekends are spent on the slopes of Winter Park, during the summer as a downhill mountain bike racer and teacher and during the winter as a snowboarder and instructor. When he’s not tearing down mountains, Max channels his British roots and for the Boulder Rugby Team year-round.
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What Alex does for BES
Alex designs electronic hardware, with a focus on analog, power systems, and layout. In their secondary capacity as a systems engineer, they advise the systems team on interactions between the worlds of software and hardware.
Industry Experience
Before joining BES, Alex was a computer engineer in information security, working on low-level hardware security research and hypervisor development. They have contributed to multiple research efforts in the fields of chip-level information security and image processing.
When Alex isn't at BES
In their free time, Alex designs and builds musical and test equipment hardware projects, cooks, and plays with their dog.
software
What Erin does for BES
Erin has strong knowledge of the inner workings of computer architecture spanning all layers from silicon to application to network. She has an appreciation for software architecture that scales without incurring technical debt as projects progress and change. Combining a wide breadth of knowledge and learning ability allows her to jump into virtually any project and enhance it.
Industry Experience
Erin received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014. She worked in information security for four years primarily on research-oriented projects. She became an expert in several esoteric facets of computers and gained experience in reverse engineering. She brought her expertise in low-level hardware and security to BES in 2018.
When Erin isn’t at BES
Erin likes to find random reverse engineering projects and exploits in her free time. She also likes video game speed runs and the board game go.
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What Adrienne does for BES
Adrienne supports the electronics design team with new product designs with a focus on design for manufacturability. She works with the design team and suppliers to support prototyping efforts and the transition from low volume to higher volume manufacturing. She's interested in research and developing manufacturing processes that are simple and yield high quality, predictable outcomes.
Industry Experience
Adrienne has been working in Electronics Design in the Boulder area as an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer for the past 10+ years. Her role as part of the Product Development team has been to facilitate high quality, repeatable, and easy to manufacture design from project kickoff until the transfer to high volume production.
When Adrienne isn't at BES
When not at work, Adrienne spends her time with her husband and kids skiing, hiking or exploring new and interesting activities and places in and around Colorado. She also volunteers at her local elementary school as part of the PTO Board and loves to participate in any and all activities that promote science and technology education in our schools. She also spends time caring for her 1 mini-dachshund, 2 kitties and 4-6 fish.
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What Emily does for BES
Emily was brought on board to assist with expanding the business into small manufacturing runs to better serve certain client needs. Her other responsibilities include building operations, maintaining and running the machine shop, assisting the mechanical and electrical engineers to build prototypes and perform tests, and whatever else might be needed to help with the general and particular operations of the business. She never quite knows what new and interesting work each day might bring.
Industry Experience
Emily started in the electronics manufacturing industry in 2011 by helping to grow a budding small business. In addition to helping to develop policy and procedure that streamlined the manufacturing process, she found her niche in troubleshooting and repair, eventually moving on to fix arcade and pinball games.
When Emily isn't at BES
It might be easier to list what hobbies and interests Emily doesn't pursue. She spends much of her free time caring for her collection of exotic pets. She is also a lover of nature and science, a fan of micro-cultures and the arts, an avid multi-media gamer, a budding electronic musician, a voracious science fiction aficionado, and the list goes on.
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What Grace does for BES
Grace is responsible for the design and testing of electrical hardware. This includes the creation of schematics and PCB layouts, running simulations, manufacturing assistance, and any other project tasks that may arise.
Industry Experience
Grace recently graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Business. She worked in the Quantum Voltage Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2018 to 2021, where she worked with the superconducting properties of voltage standard devices.
When Grace isn’t at BES
She can be found walking her dogs, spending time with family and friends, working on jigsaw puzzles, and learning new skills. Recently, she’s been learning the coding behind game development in Unreal Engine 5.
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Industry Experience
Before coming to BES, Sean worked in a research lab at the University of Colorado focusing on additive manufacturing and computational design methods looking to expand applications for emerging multi-material manufacturing methods. He also has experience working with medical devices focusing in the area of minimally-invasive surgical devices and automated surgical platforms, as well as international volunteer work through Engineers Without Borders building rainwater catchment structures to address water instability in Rwanda.
When Sean isn’t at BES
When not at BES, Sean spends his time exploring new hobbies such as painting and cooking, as well as pursuing engineering hobbies like 3D-printed instruments and musical hybrids. You can also find him hiking the Flatirons and spending time with his family.
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What Ben does for BES
Ben is responsible for anything shop related. This includes fabricating parts in the machine/weld shop, in house product and prototype builds, and general shop/machine maintenance. Recently he has been interested in projects involving vacuum/hydraulics/pneumatics system builds and testing, anything with pressure (or lack of).
Industry Experience
Ben graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a degree in physics. He worked with the IMPACT lab at LASP from 2018-2022 on a project studying novel methods for lunar dust mitigation in the lunar environment. While at the lab he gained experience in experiment design/set-up, data analysis, machining, academic publication, and vacuum systems operation.
When Ben isn’t at BES
Ben can be found mountain biking on the beautiful trails around Boulder and Golden, climbing in the canyon, or traveling wherever possible. He also enjoys creative writing and karaoke.
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What Krithik does for BES
Krithik has knowledge and experience building embedded software and CI/CD automation tools for deploying
embedded software at scale. He also has a strong background in Agile Software development, incorporating
concepts of issue writing, translating customer requirement into features and advocating for a healthy
development environment of code-reviews and unit/integration testing.
Industry experience
Krithik has a Bachelor's Degree in Instrumentation Technology, a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and over ten years
of Embedded Software Development experience. He has worked as an Embedded Software Developer with startups, medium-sized companies and established multi-national organizations. He has lead final deployment of mission-critical controller firmware for enterprise hard-drives across data-centers managed by big name cloud-service providers. He also has experience in automating validation of large-codebases, optimizing usage of DevOps resources and adopting the latest of industry standards and best practices into embedded software development.
When Krithik isn't at BES
He can be found biking, trail-running or cross-country skiing in the Colorado area. He has a proclivity to experience the outdoors in what would otherwise be 'adverse' weather conditions.
