Daniel Baxter
SF Bay Area,CA
Summary
Problem Solving| Efficiency | Safety | Creativity
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lab Manager
Intrinsic, an Alphabet Company
05.2022 - Current
- Managed and handled calibration of all prototype cameras utilizing Calib.io, Jupyter, and Bash.
- Created catalog of all customer test and sample parts, including creating naming conventions for Engineering team
- Working directly with Engineering team to design and build out setups for various data collection, testing, and evaluations.
- Managed, organized, and executed move out of lab space at original office and lab space and into Google's X campus across separate lab space and office space. This includes tear down of all test fixtures, working with moving vendor to coordinate packing of all company belongings, employee belongings, and setting lab space back up in new facility.
- Managed and coordinated asset turnover to Alphabet post acquisition. Including collecting employees' old laptops, tablets, and other miscellaneous equipment.
- Implemented and maintained inventory tracking system.
- Working with Facilities and EH&S teams to ensure lab is within corporate and local compliance.
Lab Manager
Akasha Imaging
07.2021 - 05.2022
- Primary support for Engineering and Operations for Perception hardware and software
- Created and managed global inventory system of prototype cameras across offices based in several different countries as well as various customer and vendor sites
- Creating and building out test fixtures for running testing, data collection, and calibration for prototype cameras and various other perception hardware
- Working directly with Engineers to create procedures for data collection, calibration, and other tests within lab
- Building out and maximizing expansion of lab within growing lab space in a limited footprint
- Speccing, maintaining, and benchmarking custom workstation builds to be used both in lab as well as in the field with prototype cameras
- Ran various tests with platform across various PC hardware configurations in order to determine the most cost efficient and optimized spec to run entire software platform off of.
Senior Lab Specialist
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
10.2019 - 02.2021
- Primary support for five development teams, managing autonomous test platform operations
- Coordinating test bench improvements, procuring needed hardware for prototype development: working with Purchasing and Fixed Asset teams
- Led purchasing of components and coordination with vendors for robotics platform build outs, in addition to tracking and distributing all orders to the responsible teams
- Researched and supported custom development PC workstations
- Coordinating with Environmental, Health, and Safety team to handle disposal of hazardous lab materials, in addition to lab and test platform incidents, safety concerns, and compliance
- Performed LiDAR and camera calibration on autonomous test platforms
- Performed maintenance work on autonomous test platform including LiDAR and camera replacement, dev machine disassembly and assembly, and component additions and replacements
- Managing all legal documentation for test vehicles, including California Autonomous Vehicle Permit process and annual disengagement reports
- Key contributor to build and launch of corporate autonomous A.I
- And Robotics lab: cross functional liaison with Finance, Purchasing, and Facilities teams
- Defined corporate safety guidelines for robotics platform testing: prevented potential incidents involving engineers and company property, in addition to lab spaces.
Vehicle Fleet Manager
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
03.2019 - 10.2019
- Responsible for national corporate executive vehicle fleet
- Managed DMV interaction, processed 3rd party vendors for weekly maintenance, handled incident reports for all insurance providers
- Introduced and created a company vehicle safety policy with guidelines to ensure safety of executive drivers: collaborated with corporate legal team for efficient approval process
- Key contact for purchasing and finance teams for additional vehicle procurement.
Office Manager
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
12.2017 - 03.2019
- Key contributor in growing operating environment for first corporate automotive lab
- In supporting full on-boarding experience, surveyed and addressed varied team concerns to create a motivating work culture
- As office manager, procured resources for all projects, managing NDA, SOW and invoices
- Provided essential input in scaling facilities, processes, and operations: 40 to 100 staff
- Improved corporate procurement process efficiency through feedback, suggestions, and support, working with purchasing, finance, and IT
- Coordinated, supported team leadership offsites, working with external vendors, and Finance
- Managed executive travel plans, expenses, and accounting.
Appliance Sales Specialist
Pacific Sales
08.2014 - 12.2017
- Direct point-of-contact with customers and warehouse
- Annual sales of $1M+.
Skills
- Quality Control
- Policy Development
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Project Coordination
Timeline
Lab Manager
Intrinsic, an Alphabet Company
05.2022 - Current
Lab Manager
Akasha Imaging
07.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Lab Specialist
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
10.2019 - 02.2021
Vehicle Fleet Manager
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
03.2019 - 10.2019
Office Manager
Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center
12.2017 - 03.2019
Appliance Sales Specialist
Pacific Sales
08.2014 - 12.2017