About

I am currently a Senior Policy Advisor on the Strategy Team at the CHIPS Program Office. Prior to joining the Department of Commerce, I was a New Product Introduction Operations Program Manager at Apple in the Home division. I was the operations lead for the ramp of the HomePod mini colors (Fall 2021) and the HomePod (early 2023).

Previously, I worked for McKinsey’s San Francisco Office where I served clients in the consumer electronics and semiconductor manufacturing industries from 2018 to 2020. I worked on a range of projects including a supply chain transformation for a consumer electronics manufacturer, an agile transformation of a semiconductor foundry’s customer on-boarding experience, organizational re-structuing of a hard drive manufacturer’s $15B business unit, and a global procurement transformation for a semiconductor foundry with $6B in annual spend.

I received my PhD from Carnegie Mellon’s department of Engineering and Public Policy in 2017. My doctoral work focused on the semiconductor industry’s response to the end of CMOS scaling. I examined the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative’s attempt to identify alternatives to silicon CMOS. More broadly my work examined the historical evolution of the industry’s collaborative institutions and their struggle to respond to the looming technological discontinuity. My work was published in Nature Electronics, please reach out to me directly for a copy.

From 2010-2012 I was a process and integration engineer at Twin Creeks Technologies. Twin Creeks was developing a novel, flexible crystalline silicon solar cells. At Twin Creeks I worked on a variety of processes at our R&D facility including CVD, PVD, cleans, and laser isolation. I developed and transferred a novel front-side metallization process in collaboration with equipment and materials vendors from our R&D site to pilot scale manufacturing in Senatobia, MS.

I received my Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010. Go Bears!