My objective is to identify problems I can solve and work to solve them for my clientele.
I invite you to share your engineering challenges with me:
badgertechnical@badgertechnical.com
Heuristics + Knowledge = Experience
Equipment & Tools + Materials & Resources = Capability
Experience + Capability + Effort = Solutions
This is a brief tour of my engineering & work background:
- Owner & Principal, Badger Technical Services, 2022-present
- Co-owner & Principal, Fromeco Scale Avionics, 2001-present
- Serving GSA RC aircraft market
- DC power systems, ground equipment
- Product creation, concept through qualification
- Retail sales & support
- Learned about small business creation & development
- Bespoke engineering for UAV, UGV markets; some examples:
- Leptron
- Insitu as a subcontractor for WBP
- Aerial Technology
- NASA
- Custom electronics & electromechanical
- Packaging automation machinery (Traeger)
- Vacuum (embedded) controls systems development (JHT)
- Product development: 3D modeling & rapid prototyping (Superior Technical Services)
- Ad-hoc development and troubleshooting services (Technical Sales Solutions)
- Off-grid battery & power systems for remote research sensor packages (University of Idaho)
- Breaker recharge mechanism rebuild & process consulting (BSI Components & Repair)
- Enhanced controls upgrades for legacy equipment (Microchip)
- Serving GSA RC aircraft market
- Engineer, TSS Microscopy, 2011-present
- Troubleshoot & repair electron microscopes & focused ion beam (FIB) equipment
- Refurbish & install microscopy equipment
- Re-engineer & upgrade unobtainable/obsolete subsystems & parts
- Craft and implement various tailored service solutions for Customers with older equipment no longer serviced by OEMs
- Field service engineer, FEI Company, at Intel, 2001-2006
- Did stuff, learned more stuff about semiconductors, worked with many fine colleagues
- Did stuff, learned more stuff about semiconductors, worked with many fine colleagues
- Field service engineer, BOC Gases, at Fujitsu, 1997-2001
- Did facilities stuff, mostly with specialty gases; learned stuff about the semiconductor industry
- Met my business partner, Kurt
- Thanks, Steve Gleason, for being a great mentor! Honorary founding member of Fromeco, before the Scale Avionics part happened
- Machinist Mate (nuclear), US Navy, 1986-1997
- Did Navy stuff, learned how to get stuff done correctly and on time
- Learned to act like a sailor, whatever that implies
Yes, I have a college degree. It is for Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison college. I’ve never considered it particularly formative, however, more of an accreditation of the experiences & interests that I’ve shared above.