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Autonomous systems
Solutions, deployment, and customer success for robotic fleets — from site survey to acceptance. I’ve cut cost-to-deploy 40% and scaled live fleets 150%.
Automation & robotics · Websites · Writing Voyajes
AJ
CASSARELLA
For nearly a decade and a half I’ve optimized manufacturing and warehouse processes with automation — including building the solutions, deployment and customer success teams that make them pay off. Now I’m looking for the next team. In the meantime I’m helping other people put their work in front of the world through website creation, and doing some creating of my own: writing Voyajes on Substack about where we’re all going together.
Open to new opportunities
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// What I do
I taught machines to find
their own way.
Turns out it’s contagious.
I build the commercial and deployment engines behind autonomous material handling — the standards, the economics, and the teams that make robotics repeatable. Off the clock I’m reading, and turning what I find into Voyajes. Music taught me how to build something from a feeling; it’s on pause while words take the lead.
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Voyajes
Notes on technology, climate, creativity, and the road between them. Just getting started on Substack — early readers welcome.
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Sound & music
Years of producing and DJing as Voyajer, released on Spotify and played around Denver. It shaped how I hear everything — on pause for now while writing takes the lead.
RangeRobotics, writing & creative work
Experience12+ years in automation
StudioVoyajer Productions LLC
BaseDenver, Colorado
02 — Voyajes
Words worth
the detour.
A weekly letter on how people think, how the world works, lessons from the road, and how to put all of it to work. Turning complexity into clarity and action.
The first Voyaje is on its way. Subscribe and it’ll land in your inbox.
03 — Voyajer Productions
The best work I’ve seen is
often the hardest to find.
I fix that two ways: I build the site, and I tell the story.
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Websites
Fast, modern sites that load quickly, look right on a phone, and that you can update yourself. I’d especially love to build for music artists and local businesses. Flat, honest pricing — and if you’re a nonprofit or working on a tight budget, say so and we’ll find a number that works.
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Stories
Doing something good for the world? Tell me about it. I write about people and projects worth knowing, on LinkedIn and in my Voyajes. Free, no pitch — just a conversation. If it grows into a partnership later, we’ll talk then.
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Start a conversation
Let’s talk
Tell me what you’re building. No forms and no sales call — just an email and a conversation.
04 — About
The engineer who kept
wandering into the arts.
I’ve spent my career moving closer to how complex, physical work actually gets done. I’ve sat on both sides of the table in industrial automation — evaluating, justifying and buying material-handling systems, then selling, designing, deploying and supporting them. I build the processes that make robotics repeatable and profitable: standardized deployments, ROI models that survive customer scrutiny, and teams that scale.
Away from the warehouse floor, I run Voyajer Productions — an independent studio that started in music and is turning toward words. I read constantly, and most of what I write starts as something I read. Florida to Connecticut to Penn State, and now Denver — I care about climate and conservation, the outdoors, and making things that outlast the deadline.
05 — Experience
Career chapters
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2024 — 2026
Cyngn
Sr. Manager, Customer Success & Solutions Engineering
Led solutions, deployment and customer success for an autonomous-vehicle fleet. Cut cost-to-deploy 40% and scaled deployed fleet 150%.
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2023 — 2024
Phantom Auto
Senior Sales Engineer
Rebuilt sales-to-engineering hand-off, roughly halving cycle time and expanding the customer base 30% in a year.
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2022 — 2023
Wayfair
Senior Manager, Material Handling Automation
Owned the buying side of automation — delivered four projects in twelve months, $1M+ projected savings under a two-year payback.
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2021 — 2022
Berkshire Grey
Solutions Design Engineer, Warehouse Automation
Built the company-wide RFP/RFI strategy across six industries, saving 40% of sales-cycle time.
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2017 — 2020
Seegrid
Senior Sales & Deployment Engineer
Led multi-million-dollar robotics deployments end to end while supervising a small engineering team.
06 — Connect
Let’s stay
in touch.
I’m exploring new roles in robotics and automation leadership — if you’re hiring, or know someone who is, I’d love to hear from you. Or subscribe, and I’ll bring the writing to you.
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