William Rifenburgh
Operations IT Business Process Expertise Manager
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Rifenburgh is an operations and robotics engineering leader with 12 years of experience designing control systems for teleoperated medical robots, humanoids, self-driving cars, and autonomous drones. Currently managing Operations IT business processes at Dow after roles as Senior Robotics Engineer and Robotics Platform Lead, he blends hands-on dynamics-and-controls expertise with mechanical and electrical systems insight. He holds advanced degrees in aerospace and mechatronics and completed Udacity’s Self-Driving Car nanodegree, reflecting a strong foundation in control theory, machine learning, and computer vision. Known for tackling complex integration challenges, he bridges research-grade algorithms and production deployments in industrial settings. An engineer who still dives into electrical and mechanical tradeoffs, he uniquely pairs systems-level leadership with day-to-day technical problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Aerospace Engineering; Dynamics and Controls Engineering, Master of Science Aerospace Engineering; Dynamics and Controls Engineering at University of HoustonNanodegree Self-Driving Car, Nanodegree Self-Driving Car at UdacityMaster IRIV Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master IRIV Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Université de Strasbourg - Télécom Physique Strasbourg
Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (21)
webots10
robotics10
gazebosim10
controller10
trajectory-generation10
java10
dynamics10
robot10
robotics-simulation10
ros10
momentum10
optimization10
eve4
api3
python3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
team-inrs/CarND-Capstone
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:15 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
wmrifenb/optoforce
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
ROS driver for the Optoforce sensor
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
sensorrosros-driverros2
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