Hanno Kappen

I lead the strategy for the vehicle software and electrical engineering organization. Managing a cross functional engineering team consisting of software, electrical and harnessing engineers responsible for designing and implementing robotic systems for food applications. • Defining the technical roadmap and vision for electrical hardware, robotics, controls architecture and software systems • Developing new robotic systems from concept to production • Root cause analysis and driving critical design changes

Clean sheet design of electrical hardware and embedded control software for food robotic applications. (KiCAD, Python, C++) • Designed electrical hardware and software solutions for oven ignition system • Implemented motor control software for food handling robotics • Owned project and design of electrical hardware and software solutions for automated pizza topping dispensing system • Changed pizza Ingredient refrigeration system to custom, in-house hardware and control system

Led a team of electrical engineers responsible for the design of high power electrical systems, instrumentation and mechatronic control systems for novel tunnel boring machines. (EPLAN, Beckhoff PLC, Structured Text) • Designed, validated and commissioned electrical systems for the first iteration of Prufrock tunnel boring machine - designed, validated and commissioned electrical systems for the first iteration of Prufrock tunnel boring machine (EPLAN, Beckhoff PLC, Structured Text)

Clean sheet design work and implementation of electrical, high power and control systems for tunnel boring machines and infrastructure projects. (Altium, EPLAN, Beckhoff PLC, Structured Text) • Implemented custom control systems to automate manual tunneling processes • Designed DAQ system for legacy tunnel boring machines • Lead Vegas Loop tunnel power infrastructure project with custom lighting solution

Designed and implemented battery test setups and anti-theft hardware for electric bicycles.

Led a team of electrical engineering graduate and undergraduate students designing the high-power electric drive train and control electronics for a vacuum train prototype.