Nick joined the Darcoid team in 2019. He offers over 15 years of experience as an accomplished engineer. As an Application Engineer Nick enjoys supporting customers through equipment, seal, and material recommendations. He has experience in design work; developing medical devices and custom vehicles used as mobile laboratories. Nick’s tooling and test fixture design experience are being utilized in the Darcoid test bench development. This capability is allowing the Engineering team to test custom seals under various environmental conditions to compare customer sealing options with empirical data. Additionally, Nick was involved in the success of two patents in designing an optical aperture sensor and a weighing strategy for dialysis solution bags. Nick earned his Mechanical Engineering B.S. degree while studying at U.C. Santa Barabra. When Nick isn’t providing engineered solutions, he is spending time with his two young sons, gardening, tending to his chickens, or backpacking in the California Wilderness.