Welcome
The intent of this page is introduce you to me both personally and professionally.
About Josh
An insightful leader known for transforming complex challenges into strategic opportunities. With a profound ability to bridge technology and business objectives, Josh consistently drives innovation and delivers impactful results across diverse environments such as space exploration, mining, and clean-tech.
• A technical background in Electrical Engineering:
Design and test of integrated circuits | semiconductors, power electronics, and modeling
• Strategic Product mindset:
Developed First Mode’s Clean-tech line of business and supported product diversification through market analysis, techno-economic modeling, and alignment to business goals
• Data driven:
Leveraging AI tools and programming to accelerate feasibility studies through the compilation and analysis of large amounts of data
Interests
- Camping with the family
- Skiing
- Biking
- Brewing the best cup of coffee
- Global economics
Past Work
Hydrogen fuel-cell haul truck
Goal: develop a fuel-cell–battery hybrid retrofit system to replace existing diesel-alternator gensets on Ultra-class haul trucks.
Actions:
- Led multi-disciplinary team in feasibility study for both all battery-electric haul truck and fuel cell - hybrid haul truck
- Collaborated on electrical architecture; generated single-line diagram
- Drafted fuel cell architecture
- Development of discrete event simulator - estimator for range, utilization, tonnes moved
- Develop business case for commercial FCEV haul truck (product-market fit, R&D plan and requirements, pricing strategy, infrastructure dependencies)
Rail Decarbonization
Goal: generate a concept and study the feasibility to reduce emissions for heavy haul locomotives operating in a large consist.
Actions:
- Rapid concept generation (< 5 weeks)
- Identify concept bottlenecks and assign risk assessment with mitigations
- Electrical conductor market survey - needed high voltage connections between tender and locomotive
- Simplified energy balance simulation - used to compute fuel and emission savings
- Cursory thermal analysis
Scaled SCADA (IOT for small industrial)
Goal: develop a low cost way to supervise small-scale anaerobic digesters deployed in the field. Use the data to engage customers an investors. Use trends to support field operations.
Actions:
- Generated a system architecture, illustrating IoT Sensor to cloud
- Description of intended database structure
- Detailed feature-set with capability deployment timeline
Ferry Decarbonization Presentation
Goal: assess the WSF’s proposed decarbonization strategy to go forward with battery-diesel hybrids. Shift regional conversation around thinking bigger.
Actions:
- Presented contrarian decarbonization strategy at conference
- Emissions analysis
- Familiarization with charge infrastructure and high-speed inductive charging
Inductive, LLC.
Mission
Inductive is an engineering consulting firm established to provide transformative engineering solutions for our clients in heavy industry dealing with electrification projects. Capturing opportunity and value for our clients through the appropriate development and application of hardware and predictive modeling.
Based in Seattle Washington. Inductive has a built a network of peers to cover areas of expertise beyond electrical engineering and product strategy. Areas like materials, mechanical engineering, software security, power electronics, and more.
Inductive is focused on the following key areas
- Power electronics and electrical infrastructure
- Electrification of heavy-industry mobile equipment
- Remote data collection and data analysis pipeline to support things like asset health monitoring, predictive maintenance, and maximization of asset utilization
Types of Projects I Find Meaningful
Partnering with traditionally harmful industries, solid waste, mining, and energy
With the right partner, working with these types of industries has some of the biggest opportunity for improvement. Rather than reject industries that are seen as dirty, working within these industries to create pragmatic solutions allows us to make improvements to industries that vital to modern life.
Technology, People, Economics
This is the essence of product design. I love crafting solutions to problems that require consideration of the technology readiness and fit for purpose, how people will interact with the technology, and how the technology can be developed and deployed in an economically viable way.
Getting the balance right between these elements is what distinguishes great products with meaningful impact from dead-end prototypes.
Multi-disciplinary
I find the biggest problems typically require broad, multi-disciplinary teams to solve. It’s very humbling to walk into a new industry or specialized knowledge domain, but as a systems thinker, I tend to be more broad in my experience than deep in a specific domain, so I’m often not the expert on a particular topic, but I am an expert in learning and connecting the seemingly disparate multi-disciplinary pieces into a cohesive solution or product.