Throne is a startup out that is developing App connected, deployable, luxury portable bathrooms, to fill the gap in municipal bathroom availability. For their initial launch, I managed the project constraints and schedule, budget, vendor relations, CAD designed, detailed, made assembly/fab instructions, tested and co-fabricated 7 units from prototype 0 to 5th Beta prototype. I had a team of 4 people (assembler/fabricator, welder, jack of all trades/waterjet operator, junior engineer) that I managed and guided to deliver all the Beta unit builds on schedule.

I had to quickly become an expert in residential plumbing, electrical, general and energy efficient construction. We fabricated 90% of the build and had to quickly push through countless 11th hour fires. The team was a group of superstars. I become an expert at what keeping people motivated while putting in long hours. The folks at Throne were super impressed with our work and we pushed hard to deliver. It was the most stressful project I’ve ever worked on from a technical, timeline, and emotional point of view: I had to threaten a walk out to make sure my coworker was getting paid and had to threaten to sue the company to get paid myself. Sadly the CEO’s behavior lost us the contract, 4 employees including myself left and the company has since been embroiled in a legal battle with another client that they extorted money from. It was a great lesson in what not to do and in its own way made me a great manager. Throne has since then brought their manufacturing in house and used our work (CAD Models etc) as a basis for their growing success.