Summary
Cecilia Knight-hart is a Controls and Instrumentation Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience spanning consulting, GIS, flow simulation, and programming, based in Longmont, Colorado. She has progressed from lab supervision and CubeSat research to air quality engineering and now leads controls work at Swanson Rink, blending practical shop-floor skills with systems-level design. Cecilia has proven project management chops—coordinating CubeSat builds, bills of materials, and lab curricula—and a knack for translating classroom experiments into durable instructional assets. Her background in manufacturing improvement and ergonomics informs pragmatic, evidence-based engineering solutions that prioritize safety and efficiency. Fluent in both technical build work and client-facing roles, she pairs technical rigor with clear communication across teams. An analytical pragmatist, she values substantive competence over titles—a perspective reflected in her GitHub aphorism about honest craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Sustainability Studies, Mechanical Engineering, Sustainability Studies at University of Colorado Colorado Springs