Graeagle, Calif.
Digital Operations Automation Engineer · Slip Robotics
I lead tooling and automation for Operations at Slip Robotics. Before that I spent six years moving material through Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada, then two years deploying SlipBots as a Customer Success Engineer.
I came to Slip as a former customer, so I know what a deployment costs a site when it goes sideways. Now I keep the portfolio of Operations tooling current, partner with function leads on the work that matters, and sit as the primary interface to Digital Solutions. Off the clock I'm in the Sierra with my family, 3D printing, and teaching cheap cameras to spot failed prints.
May 2026 – now
Operations
Responsible for leading cross-functional tooling and automation strategy across Operations functions. Maintains the portfolio view of active and planned work, supports strategic prioritization sessions with executive leadership, embeds on highest-priority initiatives, and serves as the primary interface to Digital Solutions.
May 2024 – May 2026
Remote
Engineered solutions for new customer deployments and ran training and ongoing support. Supported robotics deployments for key clients, built tools and content that drove adoption, and worked with engineering to refine the product.
Dec 2021 – May 2024
Sparks, Nev.
Led material flow onboarding, training teams, Materials Process Technicians, and Project Managers within Production Control. Supported continuous development of material flow systems, designed automation systems to reduce costs and labor while maintaining safety standards, and managed powered industrial vehicle training and certification programs statewide.
Sep 2020 – Dec 2021
Sparks, Nev.
Supervised outbound operations and material flow for Drive Unit, Rotor, and Megapack production lines on D shift at Gigafactory 1st floor. Eliminated safety risks through proactive identification and process standardization, and implemented simple, effective processes to ensure consistency across shifts.
Sep 2019 – Sep 2020
Sparks, Nev.
Managed inbound operations and supported production material flow while leading improvement projects. Executed projects to enhance accuracy, reduce latency, and improve safety, coached associates on productivity and safety standards, and planned daily associate schedules.
Feb 2018 – Sep 2019
Sparks, Nev.
Mastered off-site material handling operations as a safety committee member and top performer. Developed advanced knowledge of materials operations and inventory systems, and facilitated special projects to streamline workflows and improve safety.
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Puts an AI agent on a spare laptop. It works through your list day and night and checks with you on your phone before anything ships.
Record the month once. Your kids hear you every morning.
A phone-first toolkit for homeschool parents of kids in pre-K through sixth grade. You record the month one line at a time with the script large on screen, and Daily Tapes splits it into a morning tape with say-back pauses built in. It plays on the phone or on a Yoto player.
Load a trailer on screen before anyone loads one for real.
A top-down loading dock drawn to scale, with a tractor-trailer at the door. Sliplift mode puts trays on a SlipLift and runs the load and unload moves; Slipbot mode adds carts and bin conversion, and you drag a loaded SlipBot onto the truck. No sign-in, no setup.
Field notes from Slip Robotics, and a running case that internal tools are what turn a robotics company into an industry.
An Ender-3 wired to Grok for slicing, print queues and done alerts, plus ESP32 cameras that catch failed prints with a greyscale frame a second.
Graeagle, three kids, faith, Tesla FSD, and shepherd's slings for the local craft fair. Motto: do the next loving thing.
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I can't believe it.. I was a 'forward deployed engineer' for the last almost 2 years and no one told me? I thought it meant something else, but it just means solving problems and solution engineering for customer implementations? my title was CUSTOMER SUCSESS engineer.
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