Michael Stebbins

Michael Stebbins has a long and varied work history. Michael began their career in 2004 as a Weight Engineer on the 787 Airplane Program at Boeing Commercial Airlines. In 2007, they took a year off to travel around the world. In 2008, they returned to Boeing as the Lead Engineer of the 787 Optimization Center, where they grew the team from four to ten engineers and reduced the weight of parts and assemblies four times more cost effectively than traditional Boeing methods. In 2010, they took on a Graduate Research Assistant role at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where they designed, built, and tested a patent-pending hydraulic loading device to dynamically compress live human subjects’ foot tissue while simultaneously obtaining 3D MRI images of the tissue. In 2012, they joined Stark Aerospace as a Design Structures Lead Engineer and Structural Analysis Engineer, where they managed the work statement of four engineers designing a lightweight, long-range UAV for the DoD and led trade studies, planned and conducted testing, and released CAD and BOMs to successfully meet production program milestones under substantial schedule and cost pressure. In 2013, they joined TEAGUE as a Senior Mechanical Designer, where they led and worked in multidisciplinary teams to ideate, design, prototype, and sell innovative solutions for travel and technology clients. In 2017, they joined Resonon as the Chief Operating Officer and Opto-Mechanical Engineer.

Michael Stebbins has a strong background in Mechanical Engineering. Michael earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University-Bozeman in 2004. Following this, they completed a Graduate Certificate in Aircraft Composite Structural Analysis and Design from the University of Washington/The Boeing Company in 2007. Finally, they earned an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2012.