Experience
Francisco Guillen is an Engineering Development Technician with the Electrochemical Technologies Group at JPL. He has over 20 years working experience in high tech start-ups that specialized in advanced transportation, lithium batteries, and catalysts technologies. He has worked as Facilities Technician in a start-up, co-founded by Caltech’s Dr. Richard Yazami, and the Facilities/Technology Specialist at a start-up co-founded by Caltech’s Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, which developed and sells Grubbs catalysts through Sigma-Aldrich. His main focus is to support a safely run facility and ensure compliance will all regulations, policies, and procedures. His primary duties are to maintain equipment in both battery testing and wet chemistry laboratories.