KELLY BIO

1) What is the link to your Video Cover Letter video upload?

You will do this after you have uploaded your Video Cover Letter. You don't need to answer this question in your video. Please make your video public, and leave it on YouTube or another video sharing site at least until the end of your involvement with the OSE Development Team so that we may share it with other team members as needed.

2) COMMITMENT: Can you commit to 10 hours of volunteer time for 90 days?

A serious time commitment is required.

All we can do is try...and keep trying. I will try 2 hours per day during normal workdays, preferably in the mornings.

3) PURPOSE: What is the biggest value that you get out of volunteering with OSE?

The biggest value volunteering with OSE provides is a team to work on engineering projects that are inline with my abilities and ambitions.

4) OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND COLLABORATION Are you willing to download a Ubuntu distribution of Linux that comes preloaded with all software that OSE uses - to facilitate any software issues?

Already done. That was easy! Windows supports the software I use most and that is my primary OS.

5) We collaborate via work logs where we document our work and include links to all work product. Are you willing to do this on a continuing basis?

I like this work log concept. In the past I refused to update worklogs that were very tedious to update, did not provide good data to management, or was any help to me personally. This work log concept is efficient and useful.

6) FINANCES: Do you currently have a full time job?

I have a steady income. I am a manager for the pre-schools my partner runs, and I contract my product design services to OEMs on an occasional basis. My workload may not be consistent, so there are periods that duty calls elsewhere.

7) VIDEO INSTRUCTIONALS: A big part of our work is documentation and instructionals- Are you willing to learn Kdenlive, collaborative video editing and screencasting?

I am very willing to develop video editing services. Showing people the ropes is an asynchronous process these days.

8) EXECUTION AND INITIATIVE: What is the biggest task that you are proudest of yourself most that you accomplished? Please give an example of an audacious goal that you have set for yourself?

One of the biggest tasks that I have completed is getting a job as a machinist making production parts. Assuming this role was critical if I ever wanted to create an OEM.

An audacious goal I have set for myself is creating an OEM.

9) LEARNING: Show an example of something you learned that revolutionized your life?

As a child, I always wondered what the spinning shaft under trucks did. I have learned quite a bit about those spinning shafts; and everything connected to them, and how great they are, and ways to eliminate them, and how to improve them.

10) HARD SKILLS: What hard skills do you have such as IT, CAD, Graphics, Publishing, manufacturing, design, etc.

The skill I do not have that I want are creating design calculations in Smath, or equivalent. I have created design calculations in Matlab, but design calculations should be sensical and on a WYSIWIG program.

Skills on the list include:

IT: TCP/IP, CANbus, Modbus.

CAD: AutoCAD, AutoCAD Electrical, Inventor.

Graphics: Illustrator, Corel Draw

Publishing: Microsoft Word using Headings

Manufacturing: hand tools, power tools, lathe, mill, CNC, electrical assembly, mechanical assembly, mechanics, hydraulics, welding, testing.

Design: piece part drawings, weldment drawings, machining drawings, assembly drawings, wire harness drawings, installation drawings, service kit drawings, exploded parts diagrams, simple hydraulic systems, human-machine interface (discrete controls, overlays, and graphic displays), off-highway electrical & control systems, marine crane electrical & control systems, hydraulic dam sizing, wind turbine sizing, PV sizing, budgeting, instructional guides.

etc: cooking, organizing.

11) SOFT SKILLS: Do you have experience in management+ conflict resolution? Teaching? Managing/starting a community or group?

Philosophies

The Golden Rule

The Buddy System

The Scientific Method

Hustle

Lean

Agile

Luck

Experience

Management: I have worked on many projects and recognize patterns to all projects. I have worked jobs being an assembler, welder, machinist, mechanic, drafter, control engineer, and project engineer. I have played multiple roles in a functional leadership model. As a control engineer, I would frequently communicate outside the group. I think managers can be replace my servers frequently. For the management tasks that servers cannot replace, I have been most interested in adapting the communication paradigms that IT has created, adapting software management strategies, and using the team-based approaches that lean manufacturing has developed. I believe that documents ultimately rule the show, and ultimately dictate the managers tasks.

A manager has to know what is going on, provide critical resources, prevent distractions, and enable internal and external communication. Ideally, there is not a lot of explaining about what has to be done and there isn't a lot of pressure to get stuff done, but the priority is clear. I like going over the tasks, assigning a priority to each task, coming up with a time estimate to complete the tasks & doubling it, and talking about something other than the tasks.

The elephant in the room is that I do come up with half-brained ideas quite readily that seem to discredit me. If I am ever mistaken, then I greatly want to learn the truth. I followup statements I make to check their accuracy and will state my corrected view if I find disconnect. I will also trust but verify, to remedy my short-sightedness.

Conflict Resolution: Conflicts require solutions. People can agree to about anything, and conflicts frequently result from a communication breakdown that is easily corrected. If emotions become involved in a conflict, then dealing with issues discretely is important. The blame for issues is typically 50/50, and both parties have to work towards a solution. Usually, people just want the truth. Teams are built on trust and truth provides a good avenue to trust. Understanding an emotion requires describing the emotion in a short phrase and describing a solution in a short phrase. Talking and writing are good avenues for creating short phrases.

Teaching: I have a large frame of reference and have good luck assimilating ideas into other peoples frame of reference. I ultimately recognize I have to assimilate others frame of reference to my own frame of reference to have good luck teaching

12) Which would you prefer to do - this Video Cover Letter or an online interview with OSE staff?

Video cover letter.

13) Do you have any questions about OSE or how the Development Team works? Or final comments that you would like to make that we should have asked you but didn't?

I can show you what projects I have been working on.