David G. | Leland

David Gross

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Studied at Harvey Mudd College

Works at 1728 Solutions, LLC

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Work Experience

Performance Coach

GloCoach

April 2025 - Present

GloCoach is transforming the way companies develop their talent via 1-on-1 advisory coaching that drives organizational and individual change at scale. To support GloCoach's Mission and Vision, I implement the GloCoach Way to build individual competencies that achieve improved business outcomes. SMART Goals, Advisory Coaching and +3 skills

President, Founder

1728 Solutions, LLC

May 2023 - Present

Finding a solution from dozens of dozens, I work with clients to build, repair, or plan out a solution to their technical, interpersonal, or techno-interpersonal problems.

Senior Principal Integration Engineer

Heliogen

August 2022 - November 2022

Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company focused on eliminating the need for fossil fuels in all sectors of the economy and empowering a sustainable future. The company’s Sunlight Refinery aims to cost-effectively deliver near 24/7 carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, and hydrogen fuels at scale for the first time in history. Heliogen was created at Idealab, the leading technology incubator founded by Bill Gross in 1996. For more information about Heliogen, please visit heliogen.com. In this role, I was involved throughout Heliogen to work on pressing priority simulation and integration activities.

Director, Simulation & Modeling

Heliogen

February 2020 - August 2022

Hiring Manager

In this role at Heliogen, I directed the development and deployment of internal and external simulation tools for engineering and business development needs, such as: - system design and performance for incoming and current customers, - solar field design for novel receiver testing with site-specific derived hardware requirements, - mathematical modeling of novel hardware kinematics, - large-scale plant-level optimization, and - interfacing with industry product classification for software modeling techniques and resulting hardware performance estimates. In February of 2020 the org had just one report. In two and a half years we grew beyond 10x, comprising a Plant Simulation Team and a Model Integration Team. That remained intact for another six months to advance simulation & modeling activities throughout Heliogen until a major company restructuring that time.

Principal Simulation Engineer

Heliogen

January 2017 - January 2020

Hiring Manager

I started at Heliogen by managing and employing internal and external simulation tools for engineering and business development needs, such as: - critical business development responses on system design and performance for potential and current customers, - demonstration solar field design with site-specific derived hardware requirements, - mathematical modeling of novel hardware kinematics, - large scale plant-level optimization, and - interfacing to 3rd party product classification for software modeling techniques and resulting hardware performance estimates.

Senior Simulation Engineer

eSolar

September 2013 - December 2016

Admissions Committee

I product managed our ray-tracing software packages, as well as provided simulation analyses and recommendations internally and externally. I also operated and develop our financial models in support of active Business Development efforts. I was proudly the liaison for a Harvey Mudd Clinic team of 6 working on a wind instrumentation rig and sensor package for eSolar heliostats in our fields, excited to have provided an engaging opportunity for bright students to help us solve real problems. Primarily, I designed and verified for compatibility the heliostat field layout and resulting flux distribution at the Sundrop Farms Port Augusta Expansion, a 20ha sea-water greenhouse using 23712 heliostats to collect sunlight, heat water, and thus provide thermal power for on-site desalination and thermal regulation of 30 million pounds of truss tomatoes annually--15% of the Australian tomato market as made possible by a 10-year tomato purchase agreement between Sundrop Farms and Coles.

Lead Simulation Engineer

eSolar

November 2010 - August 2013

Admissions Committee

I continued to develop and maintain our ray-tracing software, as well as provided support on its use for our external customers. I also carried out and led trade studies and optimizations using the software to answer questions for our internal and external projects, as well as furthered product development. Organizationally, I also led the Recruiting Tiger Team for our Mechanical, Electrical, Analysis, Test, and Systems Engineering positions and contributed to our business process development and maintenance on a regular basis.

Simulation Engineer

eSolar

June 2008 - October 2010

Interviewer

I started at eSolar doing Simulation & Modeling work for the Systems Engineering Team. I developed and maintained the in-house ray-tracing software packages that we used to predict and validate the performance of our Solar Collector System. I also facilitated the use of this software in carrying out trade studies and optimizations through my own use as well as educational exercises and training sessions within the company.

Research Clinic Member

Harvey Mudd College

September 2007 - May 2008

- In collaboration with four HMC students, modeled the prostate specific antigen assay, a common test for prostate cancer risk, for Beckman Coulter, Inc. - Presented the model encapsulated in a MATLAB user interface at the 2008 HMC Clinic Day