LightGuide

I have spent 4 years at LightGuide. LightGuide is a projector-based augmented reality (AR) application that delivers work instructions to manufacturing operators. I started there in 2017 as an industrial engineering co-op, spending 2.5 years in that role and another semester as a sales and marketing co-op. During college, I primarily made demo AR systems, led the building of the company's sales and deployment process, and conducted product analysis and human factors research. It was great having a large variety of work, as I learned foundational engineering and product skills, as well as operational, sales, and business lessons. After graduating, I came on full-time as a project manager, leading deployments of LightGuide systems and overhauling our internal technology. I am now beginning the transfer to a human factors engineering role, working with the newfound core products team to develop the R&D leg of the company.


Highlighted accomplishments:

  • Formulated the project management position, leading ~$4.5 million in deployments over 2021 and onboarding the first additional PM. Now I am a core member in creating the human factors leg of the product team.

  • Revolutionized our internal processes and in the process of leading our migration to the Salesforce architecture. (See: Systems Engineering)

  • Created over 50 demos to present to potential customers, from small companies down the street to Fortune 100 behemoths.

Above is a great LightGuide system. There are two workstations building hydrualic pumps, with operator 1 and 2 taking the first and last half of the work, respectively. It shows clear instructions to the workers, pacing them for optimal timing. Moreover, it notifies operator 1 when there is too much "work in progress", which is an extremely important manufacturing concept.


This is the technology I have worked on for years, integrating our augmented reality work instructions with machine vision, machine learning, and IoT devices. It has been supremely interesting exploring different interaction design techniques to maximize the efficacy of the systems.