Terran Siladi

Intro

Hi, my name is Terran Siladi 👋

I'm a tinkerer by nature, and an engineer by training. I like to understand how things work, and to find new and unique ways to solve problems with the resources at hand. I built this site to be a small home for myself on the web, somewhere to tell the story of who I am, and to act as a virtual calling card. If you're interested in my professional skills please check out my work page, or get in touch so we can chat!

About

I am an avid backpacker, mountain biker, and skier. I love to travel off the beaten path and meet new people - to experience different cultures, environments, and cuisine.

I believe in quality over quantity, and refuse to compromise my values. With a formal education in Mechanical Engineering and real world experience ranging from product design with a focus on DFx and new product introduction process, to engineering team management, all the way to systems development, I've solved a lot of problems, but am always looking for more.

I excel at identifying opportunities for, and leading the charge towards process improvements to increase efficiency, design & data integrity, and usability. I believe in leadership by example and empathy as the paths to successful collaboration. I enjoy mentoring new engineers and learning from everyone I interact with.

I have a passion for renewable energy and sustainable design that comes from a belief that conservation of our world and combating climate change are the most important issues facing our world. This is driven by my personal love for the outdoors, and a sense of responsibility to our collective society to leave the world a better place then you find it.

Photography

In my spare time I enjoy taking photographs. Below is a small curated collection of some of my images

Work

I'm currently on the lookout for exciting new opportunities, if you're trying to hire someone for a technical role please reach out, I'd love to chat!

I'm a Mechanical Engineer by training, but my experience and skill set is broad and encompasses electronics manufacturing and design, project management, engineering management, and systems design. I thoroughly enjoy learning new skills, meeting new people, and solving complex problems.

So far the majority of my career has been with a single company - Pika Energy, though we were acquired by Generac Power Systems about half way through my time there, which led to many changes and opportunities along the way. I started at Pika hand building, testing, and doing order fulfillment for our initial flagship product, the T701 Wind Turbine. With the rapidly changing landscape of the renewable energy market we quickly realized that small scale personal wind power was not the path forward, and pivoted to create new products to compete in the burgeoning solar+storage market. I was deeply involved in designing, testing, and prototyping this new generation of products. Once this was done I stayed with the products and helped launch them at our manufacturing partners, developing a new product introduction (NPI) process along the way.

This NPI space was roughly where I stayed for my remaining tenure, eventually growing that role into managing a team of 5 folks all dedicated to NPI work and using the process I had developed. I reached back towards the engineers doing new product design and shared my expertise about our vendor capabilities, ensured we designed our products for ease of manufacture and assembly, reviewed all of our engineering documentation for completeness and legibility, and spent many long days overseas with vendors and contract manufacturers in China and Vietnam making sure parts and products were made correctly, with high quality, and on schedule.

For the most up to date information about my career and current work experience please get in touch so I can share an up to date resume, or check out my Linkedin page.

Contact

Drop me a line here and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

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Thanks for reaching out!

I'll get back to you ASAP and we can continue the conversation over email, cheers!

Elements

i = 0;

while (!deck.isInOrder()) {
    print 'Iteration ' + i;
    deck.shuffle();
    i++;
}

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