July 19th, 2020
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
Mandala Soundworks continues to deliver good news in 2020 as we continue to grow our talented team. We are excited to introduce you to our newest member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Evan Williams.
Evan is a May 2020 graduate of Georgia Tech, majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a co-op certification.
Since graduating, Evan has accepted a position with the company he had a co-op position with, performing mechanical design for building construction from single-family residential homes to multi-hundred-million-dollar office, hotel, apartment, and condominium developments.
Like several of our other team members, Evan is a true rock star. He has a long history in music beginning on guitar at age 5, and beginning public performances on percussion at age 9. He has played in multiple rock bands, usually as a drummer, but sometimes on guitar.
At Georgia Tech, he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, serving on the executive board once each as property manager and risk management chair. He was also a member of Wreck Racing, fielding racecars to compete in the annual under $2,000 Challenge by Grassroots Motorsports.
Evan brings his love of music, his mechanical engineering education, and his experience in facilitating rapid prototyping using 3D-printers and CAD to Mandala Soundworks.
You can connect with Evan on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-williams-395734104/
June 7th, 2020
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
We continue to make great progress during these interesting times in 2020 as we add another talented engineer to our amazing team. I am thrilled to announce Alejandro Carr as the newest addition of the Mandala Soundworks family.
Alejandro graduated from Georgia Tech with a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering in 2016. He was another former student to Dr. Steve Kenney (Mandala’s CTO) and part of the Senior Design team that initially worked on the proof of concept before Mandala Soundworks was formed.
During his time at Georgia Tech, he operated as General Manager, Radio Engineer, and DJ for the student-run WREK radio. In addition, Alejandro has technical expertise from his research on designing a modular speaker with GT’s resident Audio Engineering professor, Robert Robinson.
Since graduating, Alejandro has operated as a Technical Consultant at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He will be bringing that experience in project management, learning new technologies on the fly, and handling client relationships to the table.
You can connect with Alejandro on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-carr-638865112/
April 29, 2020
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
2020 has been a wild ride so far, but we continue to add to our amazing team. I am thrilled to announce the new addition of another extremely talented member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Peter Mickael.
Peter was born in Houston, TX and grew up in the nearby suburb of Sugar Land. He has always loved music, and played piano throughout his childhood.
Peter graduated from University of Texas Dallas and came to Atlanta for his Masters at GA Tech – both in Electrical Engineering. After enjoying his thesis work so much under Dr. Kenney, he decided to pursue a career in audio design.
Peter has work experience in space and defense, and later gained experience in studio amplifier design. But his technical calling has always been in transducers. Having worked extensively with magnetic sensors in his dad’s small business during summers off from school, he gained significant interest in novel applications of these devices. His graduate work with Dr. Kenney opened his eyes to a whole new career opportunity, and one that will allow him to combine his technical and musical interests.
Peter will be working closely with the hardware team to further development current and new products as Mandala Soundworks continues to grow.
You can connect with Peter on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-mickael-a7a898104/
March 8, 2020
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
2020 continues to rock as we continue to add to our amazing team. I am thrilled to announce the new addition of another extremely talented member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Lenno Liu.
Lenno joins the team at an exciting time as we get closer to finalizing the hardware development of our tablature capturing device, reChord. He brings a vast amount of knowledge specific to hardware design and PCB layout needed to optimize functionality of our reChord product.
Lenno is a senior at Georgia Tech, majoring in Materials Science and Engineering with a Physics minor. Whilst he has an academic background in electronic & magnetic materials, solid state physics and devices, his electronics experience comes from years as a hobbyist working with circuit diagrams and PCB layout.
Lenno is also classical musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with a focus on Violin, Piano, and Tuba.
Lenno will be supporting the hardware team with the physical board layout of novel guitar pickups using specialty materials.
We are extremely excited to have Lenno as a teammate, and look forward to sharing more progress updates on our latest hardware developments.
You can connect with Lenno on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenno-liu/
January 17, 2020
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
2020 is off to a rocking start as we are thrilled to share some exciting news. We are ecstatic to announce the new addition of another extremely talented member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Jonathan Schmidt.
Jonathan joins the team at a key point in our company’s growth to lead the development of the enclosure and packaging design of our innovative reChord pitch detection/tablature capturing device.
Jonathan is a senior at Georgia Tech, majoring in Industrial Design, and is a former student to Mandala Soundworks’ CTO, Dr. Steve Kenney. Jonathan has industry co-op experience in manufacturing, and specializes in design thinking, rapid prototyping for injection molding, and has a natural gift for marketing and branding new products.
Jonathan will support the conception, design, prototyping, and manufacturing of the reChord device, working closely with the team to consider both, the end-user experience, as well as technical limitations.
We are extremely excited to have Jonathan as a teammate, and look forward to sharing more progress updates on our latest hardware developments.
You can connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jschmidtdesign/
September 30, 2019
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
I am thrilled to announce the new addition of another extremely talented member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Lucas Wray.
Lucas joins the team at a pivotal time to further assist in developing an innovative hardware piece that will improve functionality and add features to our reChord tablature capturing and song building application.
Lucas is a senior at Georgia Tech, majoring in Electrical Engineering. He is both, a former student and research assistant, to Mandala Soundworks’ CTO, Dr. Steve Kenney. In addition to research experience in guitar pickup technology, Lucas’ experience includes industry co-ops emphasizing electromagnetics and circuit design.
As an amateur guitarist of 10+ years and former member of the GT Jazz Ensemble, Lucas brings not only technical expertise but a passion for and understanding of music theory.
Lucas will support the conception, design, and prototyping of novel electric guitar pickups which utilize unconventional sensing mechanisms.
We are extremely excited to have Lucas as a teammate, and look forward to sharing more progress updates on our latest hardware developments.
You can connect with Lucas on LinkedIn with the link below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-wray-54b687149/
August 29, 2019
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
I am thrilled to announce the new addition of another extremely talented member of the Mandala Soundworks family, Kyle Denis.
Kyle joins the team as another true rock star with thirteen years of music experience, and is the bass player for Bird Dog Jubilee out of Atlanta.
After graduating from Georgia Tech and ATDC's customer discovery program, Kyle started his career supporting Coca-Cola's global marketing team by coordinating their digital assets. Then he used his analysis skills to validate the migration of all highly secure sales data to Coke's first cloud data lake.
Next, Kyle enabled NCR to run their financial services in some of the largest sporting arenas in the world through Touchpeak Software, a middleware startup. After Shiji Group acquired Touchpeak, Kyle began assisting Shiji Financial Services in their effort to dominate the POS software sector by providing solutions to global hotels groups.
Kyle joins the team as a true utility player. He will assist on various projects, including: translating the technical information from our development team into digestible highlights for presentations and showcases, process optimization, technical writing, QA, and customer support. We are thrilled to have his energy and expertise on the team.
You can find more on Kyle and his band, Bird Dog Jubilee, within the links below:
http://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-kyle-denis-funkadelic-threads-east-atlanta-village-eav/
https://www.birddogjubilee.com/
December 16, 2018
(Announcement from Mandala Soundworks Founder, Tanner Leggett):
I am thrilled to announce the new addition of two extremely talented members of the Mandala Soundworks family, Danny Arango and Stephen Schwahn.
Danny joins the company with a lifetime of music experience, and is a true rock star as he has spent years touring the country with his former band. He attended New York University and received BFA in Recorded Music and B.A. in History as well as a Minor in Creative Writing. He held apprenticeship at Sommatone Amplification, where he learned his craft as an Amplifier/Guitar Pedal technician and then perfected his skills as a Luthier (one who works on stringed instruments) at Baxendale Guitars.
Danny joins us as a Software Engineer that will work on various projects and initiatives as the company continues to grow. Danny's motivation and work ethic/speed is hard to match, and we are very excited to have him as a team member.
More info on Danny can be found here:
https://hypepotamus.com/people/danny-arango/
Stephen joins the company with an impressive resume of launching several start-ups and has a vast portfolio of app building experience. He also has a wealth of musical knowledge as he was in the marching band at GA Tech where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science. Stephen is armed with CTO, Co-Founder, Software Engineering, Project Management, and App Building experience just to name a few high points. He has a natural gift of thriving in a start-up environment and has a great understanding of releasing new products and engaging in customer discovery.
Stephen joins us as a Tech Advisor and Director of Product, and will work closely with CTO/Co-Founder, Steve Kenney, and I to help manage various projects and bring new programs and initiatives to the market.
I have known Stephen personally for over two years in an intense start-up environment, and can honestly say that he works at lightning speed and is one of the smartest guys I know. We are extremely excited to have him as a teammate.
You can read more about Stephen and his success with one of his current companies, Plutonium Apps, here:
https://hypepotamus.com/news/plutonium-apps-wins-mobile-x/
October 1, 2017
Mandala Soundworks makes some noise at the end of Summer 2017 with an investor presentation at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA.
(see video below)
Upon completion on the GA Tech Create-X incubator program, Mandala was invited to join the southeast’s most prestigious start-up incubator, The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). The ATDC has developed a global reputation for fostering technological entrepreneurship. Forbes named ATDC to its list of “Incubators Changing the World” in 2010 and 2013, alongside Y Combinator and the Palo Alto Research Center.
Mandala Soundworks is thrilled to take its next step as a company this fall by joining the other ATDC portfolio companies. Stay tuned (pun intended) for more updates as they settle in for the winter and prepare for the official launch of their reChord software program.