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Hey, I'm Keenan!

I work with a select group of companies and founders as a consultant working on engineering, people, and process-related challenges. Work with me here.

I have built some of the world’s most ambitious engineering projects and gained expertise in understanding people, teams, and technology to achieve the impossible for the good of all.

I am also building the Ribbit Network 🐸 (a 501c3 non-profit) to empower anyone to join in the work on climate and provide informed data for climate action through the power of open-source hardware and software.

• Led an electric aircraft engineering team that delivered the world’s longest flying, fully electric UAV to prove it was possible to create useful zero-emissions aircraft
• Heavily involved in policy efforts related to Aerospace, Innovation, and Technology
• Hired by the governemnt of New Zealand to advise New Zealand based companies wishing to enter the US market.
• Mentors companies involved in climate change and aerospace through Techstars and CleanTech Open
• An integral software engineer in the high-pressure mission control of SpaceX
• Built a solar-powered house that teaches about energy usage through a playful, multi-sensory experience.
• Built an Alexa, voice-controlled, Lego robot that can turn and read the pages of books for the visually impaired.

Please consider supporting me on Github to help me fund my projects and continue to do more awesome open-source work.

Things I partner with teams for:

• Technical Direction and Execution (engineering)
• Prototype Development
• Executive Coaching
• Startup Mentorship / Interim Leadership
• Workshops
• Process Development
• Engineering Technical Direction Review and Mentorship

• Taught a month weekly course to a company's internal software team on how to write and test software that can't fail for hardware
• Wrote embedded firmware and did board bring up of a custom PCBa for a large energy storage battery management system.
• Provided technical review for electronics/software of an aerospace company’s new satellite design
• Created an IoT Fleet of both Linux (single board computers) and microcontroller-based sensors
• Implemented a software update framework, simulation environment, and testing process for a climate-related robotics company
• Mentored a few junior technical members in a company on a weekly basis since the company did not have a senior engineer to help them
• Set up engineering team processes and meetings for small engineering startup just getting up and running