Brennan Justice

Simplexity Product Development provides engineering services with a focus on product and custom equipment development. As a trusted development partner to some of the world’s most advanced technology companies, including HP, Microsoft, and Illumina, recent work includes advanced 3D printing, connected wearable technology, and transformative biotech instrumentation. Simplexity excels at mechatronic product development by blending multi-disciplined engineering excellence with a client focused design process.

Neal Feay Company is a manufacturer of innovative aluminum based in Goleta, CA. Every product designed and engineered at Neal Feay goes through the in-house machine shop, finishing department, anodizing department, graphic arts and shipping. My responsibilities at Neal Feay include working closely with designers to engineer and manufacture high-end furniture and audio equipment. In particular, this entails:
• Participating in initial product conception using 2D sketches and rough CAD modeling
• Creating final 3D models and assemblies involving complex surface geometry and organic forms
• Leading project through prototyping, manufacturing, assembly, and shipping
• Performing economic analysis on both existing and future product lines, minimizing raw material used and reducing manufacturing cost
Working in a manufacturing environment, I have learned many design techniques to abate the jobs of the CNC programmers, machinists, and machines. This has made me a more effective engineer as an integral part of the design and manufacturing process.

Within LMU Engineering, I was involved on a research team investigating material properties of structural fabrics. This project was commissioned by the US Navy with the intent of improving quality of living for soldiers at the US Naval Base in Djibouti.
Currently at the Naval Base in Djibouti, US Naval officers live in modified shipping containers called CLUs (containerized living units) in which the air temperature can get uncomfortably hot due to the poor ventilation. To help reduce costs on air conditioning, the Navy asked our team at LMU to come up with a cloth material to be constructed into a temporary tent structure that will shade the CLU's from excessive sun radiation and that will resist Djibouti wind storms, which can send sand particles flying up to 120 miles per hour.
My responsibility in this project was to design abrasion testing for different material samples. For the abrasion test setup, we decided to buy a sandblaster to simulate high velocity winds and sandstorms abrading the material walls, measuring its decrease in strength by tensile testing the fabric before and after exposure to the sandblaster.

TunesMap is a web/app-based interface aimed to reestablish cultural context to music, movies, and the arts. With the growth of digital music came the collapse of liner notes, photography, video, and cultural context in terms of how it relates to music. The goal of TunesMap is to reconnect the true fans of music with the time, place, genre, and artist of the music that they originally fell in love with.
My responsibilities at TunesMap began as an intern researching specific dates in music history and writing about their significance, creating artist pages for musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. After my researching days I became an executive assistant to the CEO and Founder, scheduling his meetings, preparing emails, placing phone calls, and conducting software pitches to modern tech and music gurus such as Tom Freston, Mo Ostin, Tony Berg, Cappy McGarr, helping land over $2.5M in investment.