A life of design

I'm a mechanical designer and one of the owners of Bell-Everman, Inc. While my business is focused on robotics for many industries, my personal interests are many and varied. I find that the deeper something goes, the deeper it goes, and I constantly go down the rabbit hole on new subjects. I enjoy experimentation in a variety of areas; clocks, pulsejets, motors and propulsion in general, flight, manufacturing processes and physics. I have a lovely wife Cindy, and three boys, Kyle, Connor and Scott. I live in Santa Barbara, California.

My Aerospace beginnings

I started my aerospace career at AEC-Able Engineering in Goleta, under phenominal mentors, Max Benton and Bob Crawford. I suppose my breakout design was the Solar Array Alpha Joint, SARJ, for the International Space Station. Two of my most useless patents, as there is little need for large space-borne rotary joints, but they continue to rotate once every 90 minutes to track the sun.

 I also did a fair amount of work on structural quick-connects, for when we thought we’d build the space station on a lattice beam structure, stick by stick, until NASA realized that all that Extra Vehicular Activity, EVA, would inevitably lead to astronaut deaths. We can’t have that, spacetravel is absolutely safe!