BES is nimble and adaptable.

What Austin does for BES

Austin is almost exclusively focused on software development, however, with a strong background in schematic review and optimization, he helps bridge the gap between firmware and physical layout to ensure designs are fully optimized. Because of our wide range of clients and projects, software development can be of different complexities, such as bare-metal firmware applications which must run without any third-party software support all the way up to full Linux stacks. Austin has worked on several wireless communication applications, one of which developed a full low-power RF stack running on custom hardware. He also has experience with feedback control systems that range from high-speed DC motor drivers to ultra-high precision (and low-cost) temperature controllers.

Industry Experience

Even though Austin is the youngest graduate on the team, Austin has been with BES, initially as a Jr. Developer since 2014. In that time, he's been immersed in many of the projects we've been involved in.

When Austin isn’t at BES

Austin enjoys working on personal electronics projects, mostly sound-reactive LED art. He and his collaborators are interested in creating installations which provide an aesthetically-pleasing yet rigorous visualization of various audio effects. Don’t worry though, Austin doesn’t spend all his time staring at computer screens. He is an avid rock climber and can be found at The Spot most evenings during the week. When time and weather permit, he also climbs at the many outdoor rock faces nearby.

What Kimberly does for BES

Kimberly is part of the Ops team at BES and focuses her time on HR, new client relations, and employee/community engagement. While involved in a variety of positions, Kimberly truly enjoys helping to create a fun, sustainable, and exciting space for the BES team.

Industry Experience

Before joining BES, Kimberly worked in operations, production design, fundraising, and event management across a variety of industries including the energy tech sector, music and film industry, sustainable fashion, and a number of large-scale restaurant groups.

When Kimberly isn't at BES

In her spare time, Kimberly is a painter, sculptor, textile artist, and musician. When not working with her hands, you can find her biking, hiking, cooking, and searching for the next perfect spot to throw up a hammock. 

What Brett does for BES

The majority of Brett’s time is spent on CAD design, using Solidworks to design the products we are developing. His focus is on plastic injection molding and designing parts optimized for injection molding. Brett also designs hardware enclosures and housings, build and prototype the products we are

Industry Experience

While attending Colorado State University, Brett was working at the Idea-2-Product 3D printing lab, building 3D printers and managing the lab. During a summer internship, he worked for Woodward, Inc., where he designed air valves that go on airplane engines. After graduating from CSU with his B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Brett worked for Exemplis, a furniture company, doing product development engineering.

When Brett isn't at BES

When Brett’s not in the office, he loves to ski when there is a lot of snow, and run when there is a lot of sun. Living in Colorado, he tries to enjoy all that it has to offer; hiking, biking, camping, and just enjoying a park on a sunny day. Brett also likes to play sports with friends, such as soccer, golf, tennis, disc golf, and softball. You can also find him mountain biking or backpacking in Moab, and he is also an aspiring woodworker.

What Danielle does for BES

Danielle maintains the day-to-day operations at BES. She helps ensure the smoothness of onboarding new clients and assists with multiple tasks ranging from financial operations to business development. She is used to wearing multiple hats and enjoys taking on new projects as they come.

Industry Experience

Prior to joining the team at BES, Danielle was working in health and wellness, where she gained leadership and customer service skills. She was exposed to the tech startup industry in Orange County, where she acquired most of her operations and accounting skills. She has helped startups with various tasks ranging from coordinating company events to preparing financial reports.

When Danielle isn't at BES

During her free time, you can find Danielle at the disc golf course, hiking the beautiful Colorado trails, or exploring the Rocky Mountains. She also takes an interest in acrylic painting, spending time with family and friends, and attending concerts. 

What Max does for BES

Max’s primary responsibilities include designing and building mechanical interfaces of various products throughout production, including design for testing and manufacturing. His attention focuses on various manufacturing processes, such as machining, molding, and printing depending on project needs.

Industry Experience

Before moving to the United States from his home country of England in 2012, Max participated in projects with Rolls Royce and spent a summer internship with Thales UK working on military defense projects.

When Max isn’t at BES

Outside of BES, Max has a fairly active life. As a child, he grew up in the world of ski racing since his dad is a former competitor. Weekends are spent on the slopes of Winter Park, during the summer as a downhill mountain bike racer and teacher and during the winter as a snowboarder and instructor. When he’s not tearing down mountains, Max channels his British roots and for the Boulder Rugby Team year-round.

What Adrienne does for BES

Adrienne supports the electronics design team with new product designs with a focus on design for manufacturability. She works with the design team and suppliers to support prototyping efforts and the transition from low volume to higher volume manufacturing. She's interested in research and developing manufacturing processes that are simple and yield high quality, predictable outcomes.

Industry Experience 

Adrienne has been working in Electronics Design in the Boulder area as an Electronics Manufacturing Engineer for the past 10+ years. Her role as part of the Product Development team has been to facilitate high quality, repeatable, and easy to manufacture design from project kickoff until the transfer to high volume production.

When Adrienne isn't at BES

When not at work, Adrienne spends her time with her husband and kids skiing, hiking or exploring new and interesting activities and places in and around Colorado. She also volunteers at her local elementary school as part of the PTO Board and loves to participate in any and all activities that promote science and technology education in our schools. She also spends time caring for her 1 mini-dachshund, 2 kitties and 4-6 fish.

What Erin does for BES

Erin has strong knowledge of the inner workings of computer architecture spanning all layers from silicon to application to network. She has an appreciation for software architecture that scales without incurring technical debt as projects progress and change. Combining a wide breadth of knowledge and learning ability allows her to jump into virtually any project and enhance it.

Industry Experience

Erin received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2014. She worked in information security for four years primarily on research-oriented projects. She became an expert in several esoteric facets of computers and gained experience in reverse engineering. She brought her expertise in low-level hardware and security to BES in 2018.

When Erin isn’t at BES

Erin likes to find random reverse engineering projects and exploits in her free time. She also likes video game speed runs and the board game go.

What Alexis does for BES

Alexis works on design, development, and testing of firmware and software for BES.

Industry Experience

Before joining BES, Alexis was a computer engineer in information security, working on low-level hardware security research and hypervisor development. Alexis has designed and built several internal-use products for debugging and data collection from the ground up, including schematic capture, layout, low-volume production and firmware development. Alexis has also contributed to multiple research efforts investigating existing-hardware silicon-based physical unclonable functions and image anonymization and deanonymization.

When Alexis isn't at BES

In her free time, Alexis builds digital and analog hardware projects, works on her motorcycle, cooks, and plays with her dog.

What Billy does for BES

Since beginning with BES, Billy has further expanded his expertise to include electrical engineering. His opportunities feature several RF-based projects with technologies such as Bluetooth, Cellular, WiFi, and other proprietary systems.

Industry Experience

Before joining our team in 2014, Billy was designing consumer products that heavily involved motor control and lithium-ion batteries. He also has experience working with and designing automotive electronics, including a Formula SAE program.

When Billy isn’t at BES

Outside of work, Billy finds himself involved with several different hobbies (one could say maybe too many hobbies). He thoroughly enjoys being outdoors, especially hiking, skiing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and maybe the occasional yeti hunt. He prides himself on skills in various pseudo-sports: foosball, wiffle ball, and skeeball just to name a few. Billy also enjoys building, prepping, and driving in amateur racing leagues, usually involving some sort of ill-advised engine swap. If you ever need advice on how to put a Cadillac Northstar V8 into the backseat of a mid 90’s Nissan Maxima, we recommend asking Billy.

What Emily does for BES

Emily was brought on board to assist with expanding the business into small manufacturing runs to better serve certain client needs. Her other responsibilities include building operations, maintaining and running the machine shop, assisting the mechanical and electrical engineers to build prototypes and perform tests, and whatever else might be needed to help with the general and particular operations of the business. She never quite knows what new and interesting work each day might bring.

Industry Experience

Emily started in the electronics manufacturing industry in 2011 by helping to grow a budding small business. In addition to helping to develop policy and procedure that streamlined the manufacturing process, she found her niche in troubleshooting and repair, eventually moving on to fix arcade and pinball games.

When Emily isn't at BES

It might be easier to list what hobbies and interests Emily doesn't pursue. She spends much of her free time caring for her collection of exotic pets. She is also a lover of nature and science, a fan of micro-cultures and the arts, an avid multi-media gamer, a budding electronic musician, a voracious science fiction aficionado, and the list goes on.

What Ryan does for BES

Ryan oversees every part of product design from inception to manufacturing, acting at various times as a project manager, design engineer, and occasional technician. His designs with BES clients have been sold in retailers like Costco and McGuckin’s Hardware. Others may be found in cockpits, automobiles, and kitchens across the globe. He specializes in optimizing designs for an intended audience, target production volume, and preferred manufacturing technique. Ryan continues his success forming local and offshore manufacturing supply chains. His efforts include forming important partnerships with manufacturers throughout the world and often involves refining designs for each manufacturer’s unique capabilities or requirements. He enjoys working closely with clients to create initial product sketches with an eye towards industrial design and moving rough concepts into manufacturable masterpieces.

Industry Experience

Before coming to BES, Ryan worked in the assembly and low-volume manufacturer of small electric vehicles. With prior experience as a car mechanic, he has always enjoyed working with his hands and maintains a keen understanding of design for assembly and manufacture. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and biochemistry with a pre-medicine focus and has been certified as an EMT. Ryan studied ACL tissue regrowth throughout his graduate studies and volunteered in novel cancer research.

When Ryan isn’t at BES

Like a lot of Coloradans, Ryan can often be found climbing on a rock wall, hitting the slopes when there’s snow, or commuting by bike. He loves to cook, frequently inventing new recipes, and tries to find time for playing more volleyball and tennis. Ryan recently bought a new pair of inline skates and reminisces about the days when that would have been considered cool.

What Adam does for BES

Adam helps design and build test fixtures, prototypes, and or machine one-off components and alters products to help make smart decisions in product manufacturability. He also manages inventories of assigned client owned components and maintains the BES workshop.

Industry Experience

Adam is associated with automotive technologies. He primarily worked in the energy sector maintaining electro-mechanical safety systems and equipment. He has worked on and integrated various types of data acquisition, ranging from ecological observatories to heavy machinery in Oil and Gas.

When Adam isn't at BES

When Adam isn't working on updating his home, you can find him enjoying the lakes and rivers of Colorado with a fishing pole. Along with his love of fishing, Adam is passionate about the conservation of our amazing outdoors. 

What Kevin does for BES

Kevin is our resident rocket scientist at BES. His main title is Analyst, but he wears many mechanical engineering hats at BES. Kevin’s specialty is simulation and analysis of difficult physics problems, particularly those involving fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and structural dynamics. He’s worked on a variety of projects from simple consumer products to medical devices and high-performance aerospace products. Kevin’s work with simulation and modeling has been crucial for the success of several BES project designs and also in avoiding dead-end or problematic design paths. Kevin is an expert at solving analysis problems including heat transfer and fluids problems, modeling heat exchangers, or cooling systems.

Industry Experience

Kevin primarily focused on rocket propulsion during his undergraduate studies, including the construction of a large hybrid rocket engine. His interests shifted focus towards advanced structural simulation and modeling during his graduate studies. Before joining our BES team, Kevin invested time as an analyst and simulation specialist at GeoMega, an environmental company specializing in groundwater modeling around mining facilities. He also gained experience as a solar design engineer at Cool Energy, Inc., a Boulder-based startup focusing on solar-thermal power systems and Stirling engines. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, Kevin was an engineer at ATK Thiokol, working on the nozzle hardware for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motors.

When Kevin isn’t at BES

Kevin has a variety of extracurricular activities with his main hobby being skydiving. He is an avid jumper and tries to go as often as work and weather permits! Various other outdoor activities available in Colorado also draws his attention. Kevin tries to go skiing as much as possible during the winter and also enjoys climbing, hiking, and camping. When he’s not playing outdoors, Kevin’s like to create LED art, play video games, and hang out with friends.

What Mikayla does for BES

Since arriving at BES, Mikayla has had the opportunity to expand her electrical design and layout skills.

Industry Experience

During her Master's program, Mikayla worked with a startup as their lead hardware engineer to design a device utilizing RFID to ease tracking exercise. She also received the Kessler Fellowship (an internship specific for engineers with an interest in entrepreneurship) during her undergraduate career and worked with DreamIt’s summer accelerator program.

When Mikayla isn't at BES

Mikayla enjoys tinkering with her electronics bench, she often has multiple projects going at once. She also enjoys running (very slowly), skiing, hiking, soccer, and generally being outdoors. When she can’t be outside she can be found cozying up by a fire with a good book or movie. She also has a passion for animals and can be found playing with any and all dogs she comes across.

What Simon does for BES

Simon designs, builds, and tests various consumer-focused products. Involved at all steps of production from conception, design, prototyping, testing, and moving to production.

Industry Experience

Before BES, Simon designed bike racks for Rocky Mounts and worked at an LED company called TerraLux.

When Simon isn't at BES

Simon enjoys mountain biking, climbing, snowboarding, and camping.

What Matt does for BES

Matt focuses on embedded work at BES where he is responsible for the design and testing of various electronic projects. His scope of work also includes the design of end-of-line test fixtures to automate project verification.

Industry Experience

B.S. Electrical Engineering- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Prior to working at BES, Matt spent several years in the aerospace and electronic distribution industries. His work primarily focused on high performance embedded computing and Internet-Of-Things device development.

When Matt isn’t at BES

When not at BES, Matt can be found working on various citizen science and amateur radio projects. When he's not being a nerd, he can be found hiking or checking out the local music scene of whatever place he happens to be in at the time.

What Anthony does for BES

Anthony focuses on soldering and tiny solder reworks and does assembly as needed for test fixtures and low volume production units.

Industry Experience

Anthony has worked in an ultrasound probe repair facility, performing repair and inspection based jobs. He was among the first two full-time employees at a local startup building wearable sleep trackers, responsibilities included assembly, engineering, shipping and receiving, customer service, and procurement.

When Anthony isn’t at BES

Anthony enjoys woodworking, video games and looking up random science topics online.