Team Member Bio's

Joseph Bingold

Joe holds BS's in Electrical Engineering, Business, and Anthropology from MIT, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, an MA in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary, and is currently an MBA candidate at Stanford University.  He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Control Systems in the state of Maryland.  He worked for the US Navy from 2001 to 2009, during which he had cradle-to-grave responsibility for control systems in nuclear power plants in U.S. Navy submarines, aircraft carriers, and research facilities.  As a Lead Engineer and Project Manager he supervised design, production, installation and maintenance of electronics and actuating mechanisms for shipboard nuclear power plants.  He then became the Group head for New Product Development, during which he supervised a group responsible for design and maintenance of next-generation software, circuit cards, power electronics, circuit breakers, and propulsion plant detectors for use in U.S. Navy reactor plants.  He also allocated funding for new technology development for the Navy and Dept. of Energy stakeholders.

Fred Ford

Fred holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, and is currently pursuing an MS in Mechanical Engineering through the Honors Coop program at Stanford University.  He has held internships at NASA Glenn, and also worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through his undergraduate career in Ann Arbor.  He was the Structures Team Lead for the "FEGI" Small Satellite team in the Student Space Systems Fabrication Lab, in which he was responsible for the structural design and analysis of the FEGI Get-Away-Special Satellite.  He is currently a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, where he is responsible for the design, analysis, test, and delivery of mechanical systems on military satellites.  He was the Certified Principle Engineer of the Payload Wing Deployment Assembly on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellite for the Air Force, which included over 30 mechanisms across 3 satellites.  He was also the Mechanisms Team lead on the Lockheed's proposal team for the Iridium-Next communications system, which included subcontracts for over 1000 mechanisms for 72 satellites. 

Jorge Heraud

Jorge holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Peruvian Catholic University, an MS in Electrical  Engineering and MS&E from Stanford  University and is currently a Sloan Fellow program Master in Manegement (GSB) at Stanford.  He was an engineer at IBM in Peru, and after earning his Master's Degrees he joined Trimble Navigation.  He held roles of increasing responsibility, up to managing the R&D department with 50+ engineers and PhDs in $250M Agriculture division.  As the Director of Engineering he was responsible for GPS, cellular and satellite communications, automatic guidance for agriculture, flow controls, and displays.  As the Business Unit Director and Director of Business Development, he is responsible for general management of a new business area that he grew from $0 to $30M through acquisitions and development.  He is also responsible for lead acquisition and integration of 3 companies:  Rawson Controls, TruCount and NTech Industries.

Lee Redden

Lee holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently an MS in Mechanical Engineering candidate at Stanford University.  He has also studied at Luleå tekniska universitet in Luleå, Sweden. He has held internships at Royal Plastic, Lockheed Martin, NASA Johnson Space Center, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.  He has performed research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on the design of a real-time autonomous train track stiffness measuring train car, miniature in-vivo surgical robots, and the effects of weightlessness on the read rate of RFID tags on the International Space Station.  He is currently performing research at Stanford University on haptic devices used for medical applications. 

Uwe Vogt

Uwe holds a joint MS in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland & TU Dresden, Germany, as well as a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany. In his research he studied advanced laser-based manufacturing technologies for aluminum car body parts in close collaboration with Audi. In between his masters and PhD he worked for two years with Sideo Germany, a mid-size automotive supplier and a subsidiary of his family’s business, the Vogt Group. As Technical Director and co-owner he substantially contributed to the successful reorganization of the firm. Currently, Uwe is an MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has a great interest in the automobile industry and smart mobility concepts in general. After school Uwe will join The Boston Consulting Group’s automotive practice in Germany.