Ultimus Technology
Client: Exowatt · Solar thermal energy
Technical Project Manager
Feb 2026 — Present
Drove the program through every gate.
- Manage automation and controls program delivery for Exowatt's Photon-to-Electrons solar-thermal demonstrator: a 13-person cross-functional team across Controls/Firmware, Optical and Mechanical.
- Took the program from CoDR through PDR closure into CDR and build, with 5+ external vendor commitments on the critical path.
- Built the program's AI reporting pipeline: reusable deck-generation and week-over-week diff skills, a scheduled wiki-curation agent, and an MCP browser relay for authenticated pulls.
- Standing up program management for Ultimus' confidential internal product — requirements spec with full traceability, bench BOM and budget, vendor RFQs, university lab partnerships, and an investor briefing.