Meet Josh

An insightful leader known for transforming complex challenges into strategic opportunities.

With a profound ability to bridge technology and business objectives, Josh consistently drives innovation and delivers impactful results across diverse environments such as space exploration, mining, and clean-tech.

  • Electrical Engineering: Design and test of integrated circuits, semiconductors, power electronics, and modeling.
  • Strategic Product Mindset: Developed First Mode's clean-tech line of business; product diversification through market analysis and techno-economic modeling.
  • Data Driven: Leveraging AI tools and programming to accelerate feasibility studies through compilation and analysis of large datasets.

Inductive is an engineering consulting firm established to provide transformative engineering solutions for clients in heavy industry dealing with electrification projects. We capture opportunity and value through the appropriate development and application of hardware and predictive modeling.

Based in Seattle, Washington, Inductive has built a network of peers to cover areas of expertise beyond electrical engineering and product strategy — including materials, mechanical engineering, software security, and power electronics.

  • Power electronics and electrical infrastructure
  • Electrification of heavy-industry mobile equipment
  • Remote data collection and analysis pipelines for asset health monitoring, predictive maintenance, and utilization maximization

Partnering with Complex Industries

Working within traditionally challenging industries — solid waste, mining, energy — to create pragmatic solutions where the opportunity for improvement is greatest.

Technology, People, Economics

The essence of product design. Getting the balance right between these elements distinguishes great products with meaningful impact from dead-end prototypes.

Multi-disciplinary

As a systems thinker, the biggest problems require broad teams. Expert at connecting disparate multi-disciplinary pieces into a cohesive solution.


Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Haul Truck

Goal

Develop a fuel-cell–battery hybrid retrofit system to replace existing diesel-alternator gensets on Ultra-class haul trucks.

  • Led multi-disciplinary team in feasibility study for all-battery-electric and fuel cell–hybrid haul trucks
  • Collaborated on electrical architecture; generated single-line diagram
  • Drafted fuel cell architecture
  • Developed discrete event simulator for range, utilization, and tonnes-moved estimation
  • Built business case for commercial FCEV haul truck — product-market fit, R&D plan, pricing strategy, infrastructure dependencies

Rail Decarbonization

Goal

Generate a concept and study the feasibility to reduce emissions for heavy-haul locomotives operating in a large consist.

  • Rapid concept generation (<5 weeks)
  • Identified concept bottlenecks and assigned risk assessment with mitigations
  • Electrical conductor market survey for high-voltage connections between tender and locomotive
  • Simplified energy balance simulation for fuel and emission savings
  • Cursory thermal analysis

Scaled SCADA / IoT for Small Industrial

Goal

Develop a low-cost way to supervise small-scale anaerobic digesters deployed in the field and use the data to engage customers and investors.

  • Generated system architecture: IoT sensor to cloud
  • Described intended database structure
  • Detailed feature-set with capability deployment timeline

Ferry Decarbonization Presentation

Goal

Assess WSF's proposed decarbonization strategy for battery-diesel hybrids and shift the regional conversation toward more ambitious approaches.

  • Presented contrarian decarbonization strategy at regional conference
  • Emissions analysis
  • Familiarization with charge infrastructure and high-speed inductive charging