About
Wavelet Solutions exists for a specific kind of work: organizations with hard technical problems who need engineering judgment — not project management overhead, not a vendor selling a platform, not a team of consultants who’ll tell them what they want to hear. What follows is the practice, written down honestly.
From the Founder
I started Wavelet Solutions after 25+ years of watching the same pattern play out in defense, aerospace, and industrial programs: projects fail not because the engineering is hard, but because the requirements were never really defined, the architecture was not reviewed honestly, and no one with genuine technical depth was empowered to raise a concern early enough to matter.
My background spans satellite communications, military waveforms, RF systems, embedded firmware, SCADA and industrial control, and technical program leadership across defense and aerospace programs. I have led teams, rescued troubled programs, and built systems where failure was not a recoverable condition. I have also taught at the college level and spent years mentoring engineers and robotics teams — because I genuinely believe the most valuable thing an experienced engineer can do is help others develop the judgment to solve hard problems on their own. That belief shapes how Wavelet Solutions engages with every client.
Wavelet Solutions brings that discipline to every engagement, regardless of domain, contract size, or whether the client has worked with us before. The standard does not scale down for smaller projects. The honesty does not get filtered for uncomfortable findings. And the knowledge transfer at the end is not optional.
The Engineering North Star — a free resource on systems engineering principles — exists because I believe good engineering thinking should be accessible, not proprietary. It’s the same framework Wavelet Solutions applies in practice, written down and shared openly.
Twenty-five years across the spectrum
A senior engineer’s value isn’t a single specialty — it’s recognizing how problems in one domain map to solutions from another. The breadth below isn’t a service menu. It’s the experience the practice draws on when a SCADA migration turns out to need DSP work, or when a software rescue hinges on understanding the radio at the bottom of the stack.
The approach
These aren’t values on a wall. They’re the specific commitments Wavelet Solutions makes on every engagement — and the standard by which the work should be judged.
No architecture is designed, no code is written, and no hardware is ordered before requirements are defined — functional and non-functional. This isn’t process for its own sake. It’s the difference between building the right thing and building something close enough that problems only surface after deployment.
We don’t hand off work to an implementation team or disappear after the architecture document is written. The same engineering judgment that shapes the requirements owns the outcome through integration, testing, and final acceptance. If something is wrong, it gets fixed — not explained away.
If the timeline isn’t achievable, you’ll hear it early. If the architecture has a fundamental problem, it will be named clearly — not buried in a risk register. The practice operates on the belief that a client who understands their situation, even when it’s difficult, is always better positioned than one who has been managed.
Every engagement ends with a client who understands what was built, why it was built that way, and how to maintain and extend it. Documentation, knowledge transfer, and operator training aren’t optional add-ons — they’re part of what “done” means. The measure of a successful engagement is how well the client can operate without us.
Structure
Wavelet Solutions is a subsidiary of Intrepid Fusion LLC, a holding company that includes a small set of related ventures. The structure exists so the right resource is available for the right kind of work, without overhead bleeding from one function into another.
The practice serves clients through one front door — Wavelet Solutions — with the depth that comes from related work happening alongside it. Research and innovation done under the Artisan Technologies banner feeds directly back into client engagements: when a new technique is validated in research, it becomes available to clients without them paying for the experimentation phase that proved it out.
Wavelet Solutions also invests in the broader engineering community through Nexus Workshops and the Nexus Community Foundation. Knowledge transfer is not just an engagement deliverable — it’s a value the practice holds publicly.
Research, innovation, and engineering tools. Where the work that doesn’t fit inside a client engagement gets the time it needs to mature into something shippable.
Visit Artisan →Engineering education and FTC robotics mentorship. The platform through which engineering knowledge reaches students and emerging engineers.
Visit Nexus →Large-format and medium-format film photography. The practice of attention and patience, applied to a different craft.
Visit SilverHue →The nonprofit extension of Nexus Workshops. Brings engineering knowledge to students who otherwise wouldn’t have access to it.
Visit Foundation →The systems engineering principles practiced on every engagement — first-principles thinking, requirements discipline, what makes architecture survive contact with reality. Read it before you talk to us; it’ll tell you whether we’re a fit faster than any sales call.
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