[Mikell Taylor]

I'm a Systems Engineer at Bluefin Robotics, which makes underwater robots (AUVs).

As a systems engineer I'm basically the lead engineer on projects and I cover two of our main product lines. I occasionally step in as a project manager (on some of the smaller programs) or sales engineer (on some big proposals) as necessary.

In addition to getting to play with robots for a living, the benefit of working with underwater robots is that I get paid to go out on a boat -- awesome on nice days in the summer, less awesome on cold rainy days in the winter -- and travel quite a bit as we do acceptance testing and training in all parts of the world.

Basically, all my hopes and dreams as a young FIRSTer have come true!