For the past 14 years I have been designing, building, and programming robotic hardware. As part of past projects, I have had the opportunity to develop algorithms, libraries, and hardware for an autonomous boat, autonomous car, personal robot platforms, battlebots, and several low cost platforms. From this experience, I have gained a broad understanding of robotic technologies and have experience developing complex robotic systems. For more information on my past projects please visit my personal website (meloneewise.com).

CEO @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Co-Founder, CEO @ Acted as the public face of the company, engaging potential customers, collaborators, and investors as well as attend public speaking events and gave press interviews Develop hardware for a next generation low cost mobile manipulation robot • Designed and built robot sub-assemblies; mobile base, torso, and docking station for the UBR-1 • Developed hardware and software specifications • Identified new technologies and possible strategic partnerships for hardware development • Designed overall hardware architecture for 11+ DOF systems Invited Panels & Talks • Invited Speaker and Panelist, VLAB, Collaborative Robots: Living Amongst Us, May 2014 • Invited Speaker and Panelist, Xconomy RoboMadness 2014, Where Do Robots Go From Here?, April 2014 • Commonwealth Club of California Panel,Where's Rosie? The State of Personal Robotics, March 2014 • Robobusiness Panel, First Thing’s First: Building a Better Robot, October 2013 From February 2013 to August 2014 (1 year 7 months) Manager of Robot Development @ Led a team of engineers and designers to develop next generation a mobile manipulation robot. Drove hardware innovation and robot design efforts as a robot architect • Develop hardware and software specifications • Identified new technologies and possible strategic partnerships for hardware development • Designed overall hardware architecture for 11+ DOF systems • Received engineering achievement award for leading the team to deliver prototype hardware and completing major project milestones ahead of schedule Performed customer need-finding in three distinct application spaces: hotels, elder care facilities, and supermarkets • Performed on site interviews, employee shadowing, process analysis, and validation interviews on proposed solutions • Integrated insights captured from need finding into design specifications From January 2012 to February 2013 (1 year 2 months) Intern Program Director @ I created the intern program in December of 2007 with 1 winter student. I grew the program to approximately 60+ students year round. I managed all aspects of the program from hiring to intern events to exit interviews. From December 2007 to August 2012 (4 years 9 months) Senior Engineer @ Led a multidisciplinary team of engineers and designers in performing need-finding for future robotics platforms involving integration of robotic technologies with the home • Performed on site and in home interviews as well as validation interviews with participants • Developed prototype solutions to address potential customer needs ROS package and stack developer • Maintainer/developer of ROS hardware drivers (joystick_drivers, imu_drivers, laser_drivers) • Maintainer of ros.org wiki backend (Moin Moin python based macros) • Owner and maintainer of core ROS tutorial documentation (~100 tutorials with written documentation and example code) Engineering project manager and co-creator of TurtleBot • Designed, developed, and shipped hardware and software for TurtleBot, a consumer robotics product in 9 months • Developer, maintainer, and release manager of TurtleBot software • For more information on the TurtleBot project visit turtlebot.com and http://www.ohloh.net/p/turtlebot for an overview of the source code PR2 developer • Main contributor in high-level capabilities for the PR2 robot such as • Autonomously recharging • 24 hour continuous operation • Fetching a beer • Wrote core realtime controllers • Developed hardware testing routines and diagnostic tools for the PR2 robot For a complete listing of software I maintain and wrote please see: http://www.ros.org/wiki/MeloneeWise From January 2007 to January 2012 (5 years 1 month) Ph.D. Candidate @ I am currently on leave from my Ph.D. From August 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 5 months) Research Assistant @ Performed building dynamics research using nonlinear energy sinks. Focused in nonlinear dynamics and controls. From January 2003 to August 2006 (3 years 8 months) Student Participant @ The Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program provides a unique academic experience for undergraduate students to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and evaluate a reduced gravity experiment of their choice over the course of four-six months. The overall experience includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations and educational/public outreach activities. From April 2002 to April 2005 (3 years 1 month) Summer Intern @ Developed piston pump/motor leakage and efficiency programs in matlab. Performed FEA and stress analysis on piston pump and solenoid components. Design and developed cavitation erosion testing capability. From May 2004 to August 2004 (4 months) Summer Intern @ I worked in the JSF group doing fatigue life, combustion, and crack growth analysis. I also developed fatigue analysis tools using least squares and maximum likelihood methods. From May 2003 to August 2003 (4 months) Summer Intern @ I worked on the corporate low pivot steering column in Auburn Hills, MI at the corporate headquaters. From May 2002 to August 2002 (4 months) Summer Intern @ I worked on sheet break detection in Evansville, IN . From May 2001 to August 2001 (4 months)

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2006 to 2007 MS, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2005 to 2006 BS, Physics Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2000 to 2004 BS, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2000 to 2004 glenbard south high school From 1996 to 2000 Melonee Wise is skilled in: Python, C++, Eagle CAD, Solidworks, Finite Element Analysis, Matlab, ROS, PCB design, Controls, moinmoin, Wikis, Linux, Microcontrollers, Prototyping, Getting The Job Done