Heirloom Carbon
Q4 2025 - Present
Photo courtesy Heirloom Carbon
Product Brief:
Heirloom Carbon aims to be part of the fight against climate change by developing carbon mineralization technology to permanently remove billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere via Direct Air Capture (DAC).
As a Senior ME on the High Volume equipment design team, I contributed to developing the next iteration of hardware design to enable the build-out and operation of the next generation carbon capture pilot plant in Tracy, CA.
Later as Senior ME Manager of the R&D Equipment Design team, I led a team of 4 to deliver lab and prototype equipment platforms to drive experimentation and iteration of Heirloom’s core carbonation technology
Contributions:
As a Mechanical Engineering Manager for R&D Equipment Design, I was responsible for a team of 4 engineers in an ICM role driving development on next-generation in-house hardware to drive continuous process improvement and scientific research
Work spanning carbonation experimental platforms, early form factor de-risking, calcination platforms
As a Senior ME on the High Volume equipment design team, I worked on modular container designs to enable the build-out and operation of the next generation carbon capture pilot plant in Tracy, CA.
Drove definition of key system parameters for ~$1MM of processing equipment for pilot plant deployment in Tracy, CA
Developed PRD for high volume components as well as system-level requirements spanning multiple ME team responsibilities
Developed overseas vendor qualification and in-house quality processes for the High Volume team, and coached teammates on their usage and ultimate end-goal of successful shipped components
Designed and executed V&V test suites on EVT/DVT maturity hardware