Melonee Wise
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Melonee Wise is from 美国 加利福尼亚州 圣荷西. Melonee works in the following industries: "计算机硬件", "计算机软件", "高等教育", "学术研究", "信息技术和服务", "采矿/金属", "电器/电子制造", "汽车", and "物流和供应链管理". Melonee is currently VP Robotics Automation at Zebra Technologies, located in San Jose, California, United States. In Melonee's previous role as a CEO at Fetch Robotics, Melonee worked in San Jose, CA until Aug 2021. Prior to joining Fetch Robotics, Melonee was a Co-Founder, CEO at Unbounded Robotics and held the position of Co-Founder, CEO at Santa Clara, CA. Prior to that, Melonee was a Manager of Robot Development at Willow Garage, based in Menlo Park, CA from Jan 2012 to Feb 2013. Melonee started working as Intern Program Director at Willow Garage in Menlo Park in Dec 2007. From Jan 2007 to Jan 2012, Melonee was Senior Engineer at Willow Garage, based in Menlo Park. Prior to that, Melonee was a Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Jan 2003 to Aug 2006. Melonee started working as Student Participant at NASA Reduced Flight Student Opportunity Program in JSC in Apr 2002.
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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
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
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.
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
Performed building dynamics research using nonlinear energy sinks. Focused in nonlinear dynamics and controls.
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.
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.
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.
I worked on the corporate low pivot steering column in Auburn Hills, MI at the corporate headquaters.
I worked on sheet break detection in Evansville, IN .