Shashank Sharma's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Product Design Engineer @ Theranos Designed a 2-Axis closed loop belt drive gantry system for a precision positioning a liquid handling robot for a blood analyses (core product). Release design for medium volume production (~ 40 unique mechanical parts - machined, injection molded and sheet metal). From April 2012 to February 2013 (11 months) Palo AltoProject team, ConnecX (AUDI & SAP) increasing productivity while driving @ Stanford University Partnered with AUDI and SAP to designed & build a distraction free driver interaction system to facilitate business phone calls . System showed Increased driver productivity by 20% (more tasks completed in less time while driving safely) From September 2010 to May 2011 (9 months) Project Lead and Research Assistant, Space Systems Development Lab @ Stanford University • Developing an autofocus hyperspectral telescopic imaging system for lunar mission in 2013 From September 2010 to March 2011 (7 months) Design intern (Technology Innovation Platforms) @ SAP Labs Designed and developed a paperless expense reporting system (Iphone app) for the Stanford Design School. Employed user centric design and need finding to define solution scope and requirements. From June 2011 to September 2011 (4 months) Palo Alto, CAProject Engineer Intern @ Moon Express Developed a multispectral telescopic imaging system for a Lunar mission. Acted as mechanical lead and systems engineer. Device showcased at Lunar Science Forum, NASA and Lunar Observatory Conference, Hawaii From April 2011 to August 2011 (5 months) Research Assistant @ General Motors Developed Human Body Repositioning Algorithms to facilitate Numerical Crash Simulation. Algorithm helped reduce repositioning time to one hour; (20 times faster than previous techniques) From May 2009 to May 2010 (1 year 1 month) IIT DelhiField engineer (Intern) @ Schlumberger Characterized a next generation sampling pump and introduced a methodology to speed up job duration by 5 times causing a 10 % rise in job revenue (~ $10,000). Recommendations incorporated in SOP. From May 2009 to July 2009 (3 months) DAAD Research Scholar (WISE intern) @ TU Darmstadt FEA Modeling of a micro piezoelectric ultrasonic motor for different geometries. Model predicted optimal driving frequency (accuracy 95%) . Published in the International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering. From May 2008 to July 2008 (3 months) Engineering Manager, Camera Hardware Incubation @ Apple Focus: Technology roadmap, personnel development, new imaging architectures, micro-actuators, glass optics • Defined hardware strategy to deliver industry-leading improvements on low light and zoom and secured executive approval for 2020 and 2021 iPhone architectures (15+ patents)• Championed cross functional efforts bridging mechanical design, optics, manufacturing automation, controls, EE and image science to kick off development on 3 new camera technologies • Managed a mechanical team (2 reports) and mentored 3 mechanical design engineers From October 2017 to November 2018 (1 year 2 months) Cupertino, CASr. Product Design Engineer, Camera Product Design (iPhone) @ Apple Focus: voice coil motors, micro-actuators, high volume-high precision manufacturing, flex ure mechanisms, 
electro-magnetics, dynamics, frequency and modal response, DFM, GDnT, Tolerance Analysis, FEA, DFM, DFA• Mechanical lead for 3 generations of iPhone cameras including design of Dual OIS architecture on iPhone X• Designed many novel actuators for optical image stabilization (3 axis, closed loop, flexure based voice coil) • Managed 15 globally distributed suppliers (design and manufacturing) through multiple iPhone products From July 2014 to October 2017 (3 years 4 months) Cupertino, CAAutomation Engineer @ Theranos Designed and built a novel automation line to micro-dispense batches of reagents for blood testing. System combined off the shelf automation equipment (6 axis arms, conveyors, rotary tables, safety interlocks, PLCs) and custom end effectors (grippers and vaccum pickup) to service lab automation equipment. From February 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 5 months) Palo Alto, CAField Manager @ Grassroots Campaigns Lead crews to fundraise and spread awareness for ‘Save the Children’ in Chicago. Built a database to help better organize day to day canvassing activities. From July 2010 to August 2010 (2 months) Staff Hardware Engineer @ Waymo Focus: Technology Roadmap, Personnel Development, Visible & Thermal Cameras, Automotive Qualification• Define roadmap and develop technologies for next generation cameras for autonomous cars (6+ patents)• Cross functional lead for cameras on long haul autonomous trucking platform with emphasis on long range • Built the mechanical engineering team that delivers all cameras (visible and thermal) across all vehicle platforms (6 custom modules), owning design, FEA, manufacturing • Developed simulation (STOP) to passively athermalize camera focus and focus adjust actuators Mountain view