Leads Oishii’s controls engineering function, including automation system design, electrical and controls deployment, commissioning, maintenance, controls strategy, vendor management, and large-scale capital projects. Builds and manages a controls engineering team, coordinates with engineering, operations, maintenance, and plant science groups, oversees budgets and timelines, ensures safety and code compliance, and develops executive-level roadmaps for globally deployed indoor farming systems.

Lead development and maintenance of software powering autonomous robotic strawberry harvesting. Build across SCADA communications, perception, motion planning, and robotic controls; translate requirements into production-ready software; validate through simulation and field testing; troubleshoot deployments; and collaborate with robotics, hardware, controls, and operations teams to improve system reliability.