Andrew King —
AI/ML & Automation
Engineer.

Senior Solutions Engineer

• Serve as technical lead for US customer deployments of multi-robot automation lines — driving controls architecture, on-site commissioning, and customer acceptance testing across industrial manufacturing environments
• Architect Siemens S7-1500 / TIA Portal control systems for PROFINET robot networks, including PackML state machine, Modbus TCP VFD integration, and robot job-selection and recipe management

• Lead customer-facing technical engagements: on-site discovery, solution whiteboarding, prototype guidance, and structured operator training programs designed for long-term customer self-sufficiency
• Design and iterate end-of-arm tooling (Autodesk Fusion 360) across 3D-printed prototyping and live production validation cycles
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and firmware issues across multi-unit robot fleets via remote (Stridelinx VPN) and on-site troubleshooting; deliver structured root-cause reports to Germany-based engineering teams

Volunteer Work

• ASMBLY Makerspace (Austin, TX) — leading the rebuild of the shop's 5-axis fiber-laser gantry CNC: integrating a 2.2 kW Raycus fiber-laser source, overhauling motion control across all five axes, and designing the safety enclosure and interlock system (light curtains, door interlocks, beam-block reset logic, Class-1-by-enclosure architecture) for member access
• The Multiverse School (gen-AI / agentic-software education program) — advisory SME on open-source robotics and the security-vulnerability landscape of edge / controls networks at the IT/OT intersection

Technical Co-Founder

• Led Project Lark: architected and shipped an agentic automation platform in Python (OOP, async), integrating LLM task orchestration with structured workflow automation for engineering productivity applications
• Led Project Moose: designed and built an operations and work-management platform unifying inventory tracking (with QR codes and CSV bulk import), resource capacity management (personnel, equipment, skills, allocations), and enhanced task management on a React/TypeScript + Node/Express + PostgreSQL stack with real-time WebSocket sync and Docker-based deployment

• Delivered Project Sparrow: enterprise automation MVP for an insurance-sector client combining image-recognition APIs with a PostgreSQL backend — projected to eliminate $1M+ in manual operational overhead
• Built a containerized IoT edge-processing service (Docker) with real-time telemetry storage, SQL-backed result history, and operational performance monitoring dashboards
• Designed and maintained an ICS security automation platform with REST API integrations, secrets management, and compliance audit logging

Automation & Controls Engineer

• Engineered Beckhoff TwinCAT 3 / EtherCAT motion and CNC control systems for high-speed roll-to-roll manufacturing of laminated flexible circuits, coordinating servo axes across web tension, registration, and indexing operations
• Integrated FANUC CNC laser processing cells (cutting and welding) via direct servo integration over EtherCAT using the CiA 402 drive profile, with TwinCAT CNC coordinating motion and vision feedback for in-line feature placement on flex-circuit substrates

• Built a hipot circuit-test gantry on Beckhoff CNC kinematics — multi-axis positioning, probe contact sequencing, and pass/fail data capture tied into the line MES
• Developed Ignition Perspective HMI/SCADA projects on top of the Beckhoff PC-based control platform, delivering operator workflows across the full production line
• Built an OPC-UA client for recipe management and enterprise-wide data integration; implemented error-proofing and performance indicators that reduced downtime by 25%

Automation Engineer

• Automated the recycling and production of NdFeB rare-earth magnets — vacuum sintering furnaces and high-temperature electromagnetic presses operating in null-oxygen (inert) environments
• Built Siemens-based controls end to end on S7-1500 / TIA Portal, including PROFINET I/O, safety, and HMI for furnace and press cells

• Designed and integrated Yaskawa robot cells with Schunk servo end-of-arm tooling for material handling between processing stages
• Owned mechanical design of fixtures, EOAT, and process tooling in SolidWorks; supported builds through prototyping and commissioning

Integration Engineer

• Led a $250K integration project delivering KUKA robotic case-packing for a food and beverage customer — full cell from infeed conveyance through palletizing handoff
• Programmed line controls on B&R Automation PLC and HMI; integrated B&R safety, fieldbus I/O, and KUKA robot interfaces

• Designed and deployed Schmalz vacuum end-of-arm tooling for variable case geometry, including suction-cup arrays, vacuum generators, and gripper changeover
• Integrated robotics peripherals into safety circuits, executed risk assessments, and developed performance indicators to improve reliability and reduce cycle time across the cell

Vicarious FPC — KUKA case-packing cellyoutube.com

Field Service Engineer & Corporate Instructor

• Provided on-site field service and troubleshooting at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC — diagnosed and resolved KUKA robot issues across body-shop and assembly lines for a major automotive customer
• Served as corporate KUKA instructor delivering customer and integrator training on KRC2, KRC4, and Sunrise.OS — KRL programming, controller configuration, integration patterns, and recovery procedures

• Supported field commissioning and startup across multiple customer sites, working with cell builders and end users to bring KUKA installations into production
• Built deep operational expertise across KUKA controller generations (KRC2 → KRC4 → Sunrise.OS / iiwa LBR) and translated complex robotics issues for both engineering and shop-floor audiences

Console Operator & Chief Scientist — HOT Program

• Console operator for CTD/rosette operations on the Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) program — water-column sampling and physical oceanography measurements at Station ALOHA, ~100 km north of Oahu, supporting one of the longest continuous ocean time-series in the world (running since 1988)
• Served as Chief Scientist on five weeklong at-sea excursions aboard UNOLS research vessels (R/V Kilo Moana and R/V Ka'imikai-O-Kanaloa), leading sampling operations, science-watch rotations, and at-sea logistics

• Performed calibration, real-time data acquisition, and post-processing of ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) data for current-profile analysis across the water column
• Logged 5,000+ nautical miles at sea across roughly monthly sampling cruises, working alongside SOEST oceanographers to maintain dataset continuity for hydrography, biogeochemistry, and primary-productivity records

• R/V Kilo Moana — primary HOT cruise vessel (UNOLS, operated by UH SOEST)
• R/V Ka'imikai-O-Kanaloa (KOK) — UH research vessel; retired 2018 after the 304th HOT cruise
• NOAA R/V Hi'ialakai — joint cruises with WHOI (WHOTS mooring program)

Subsea Operations / Glider Pilot

• Operated Teledyne Webb Research Slocum G2 autonomous underwater vehicles (buoyancy-driven gliders) for sustained physical oceanography missions in the Gulf of Mexico
• Supported deployment, recovery, and at-sea piloting of AUVs collecting CTD (conductivity / temperature / depth), dissolved oxygen, fluorometer, and water-column profile data

• Maintained and serviced glider sensor packages (SeaBird CTD, RINKO fast-response DO, ECO-PUC fluorometer) at GERG's Glider Center for Autonomous Vehicle Engineering between deployments
• Coordinated mission planning, telemetry monitoring, and data QA across multi-week glider missions in coordination with NOAA-funded hypoxia research and Gulf of Mexico observing programs

ISS Flight Controller — ADCO / HawkI

• Flight controller in the ADCO (Attitude Determination and Control Officer) group at NASA Johnson Space Center under the IMOC-I and IMOC-II Mission Operations contracts — responsible for monitoring and managing ISS attitude and on-board motion-control systems in real time
• Held the HawkI MPSR position — back-room support monitoring all U.S. GNC systems while the front-room ADCO coordinated with other flight controllers and MCC-Moscow

• Worked in partnership with Russian flight controllers to determine and manage ISS orientation via the U.S. and Russian motion-control hardware; planned and calculated future attitudes and maneuvers, including visiting-vehicle docking and undocking sequences
• Operated and monitored ISS GNC sensors and effectors — control moment gyros (CMGs), ring laser gyros, rate gyro assemblies, and Russian thruster interfaces — for state-vector and attitude determination
• Trained on and supported response procedures for non-nominal scenarios: loss of attitude control, on-board fire, toxic atmosphere, micrometeoroid/orbital-debris (MMOD) strikes, and depressurization events