About

Throughout my life, I've always enjoyed creating things. From a young age, I built vast cities of LEGO bricks. Later on, I learned about electronics with snap circuits and simple Arduino programs. Throughout middle school and high school, I created online content. I utilized a GoPro to make short travel films (https://www.youtube.com/@henrygoodman864) and learned to mix music, creating unique mashups (https://soundcloud.com/henrygoodman). All the while, I could never truly satisfy my itch for integrating creativity, math, and problem solving. Then, I discovered engineering.

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Engineering offered me a career path that I was truly excited to start on. I tried learning as much about all of the different disciplines as quickly as possible. Through a month-long Engineering Technology Camp at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, CA, I got to dive deep into each discipline and learn from the best, also applying my learning through the development of my first cross-discipline prototype -- a fully integrated, smart composting bin. From there I had fully caught the bug.

 

I began studying Mechanical Engineering at UVA, where they taught me not only the fundamentals of the discipline, but the social and economical tools to be successful and ethical in the practice. I furthered my professional career with two summer internships Raytheon Technologies working on part design & qualification for their Patriot Radar System. Since graduating, I've moved back to Boston, MA to work for Lutron Electronics, a long standing innovator in luxury consumer and commercial lighting technology. My wide variety of experiences from working on room sized radar shelters to tiny sensors that can fit in the palm of your hand has given me a unique set of skills which I am continuing to grow and diversify.

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Outside of engineering, my interests include anything outdoorsy (ski/snowboard/hike), playing piano and guitar in my band called SourDough, cheffing up meals for myself and anyone brave enough to try my recipes, and fixing up my 1996 Polaris SLX 780 Jet Ski.