Justine Kardel 陳佳怡 ❤️🔥🌲@dorkburger84
Justine Kardel Mini-CV (Get to know me)
Education
HS Bishop O'Dowd 2002
UG BS UC Berkeley Mechanical and Materials Science Engineering, either honors or high honors idk 2009
Grad MS UIUC Materials Science & Engineering
2016
EMBA Quantic 2022
Publications
1 in Review of Scientific Instruments, 2nd author but should have been 1st (group politics)
1 Physical Review B 4th author
Way too many conference papers
Achievements
Eagle Scout Troop 1 Piedmont 2002
Touring Banjo Player and singer in CA
Touring Hardcore bassist and singer with Death Clock, Champaign, IL
Formula SAE Composites team leader
Bike gang member with East Bay Rats 2009-10
Leader, Justine Kardel and the Crystals from Venus, Singer, Composer, Arranger, Writer
Appointment to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on Advanced Light Source Synchrotron
4 patents
3 Novel inventions unpatented and distributed to advance state of art in thermal characterization
Married to Apollo Ng, 2023
Got manageable with Bipolar 1, which has ravaged her life since 2000, 2024.
Transition to non-binary genderfluid transfeminine, 2019
Carrer
Middle School- High School Lawncare business, 1995-2002
Process Engineer Alphabet Energy 2010-12
Founded Sextus Industries 2013, Champaign, IL
Joined Karl Kardel Company, Inc. 2017
Incorporated Sextus Industries, Inc. (S-Corp, USA, CA inc.) 2025, Piedmont, CA
President and Chairwoman of Board, Sextus
Appointed Operational VP, Karl Kardel Company Dec 31 2025
Languages
English (Native fluency)
Spanish (Professional proficiency)
Cantonese (low level conversational)
German (mid level conversational)
Core proficiencies
Management, Business Operations, Accounting for business operations, Process Engineering in the semiconductor industry, Machining, Part design, Heat transfer, Thin film epitaxy, Structural characterization by x ray diffraction, Characterization and metrology equipment development and design in the semiconductor industry, Jig and tool piece design
Engine tuning, Suspension setup for race and road, motorcycle and car, Composites FEA/FEM/Layup design, Composites Layup wet layup and preprig
Welding design, setup and operation
PLD Operation, SEM, TEM, AFM, XRD, Ellipsometry, Neutron Scattering, FIB, Solar Simulator operation
Electronic circuit theory, design, test and operation
Vacuum chamber design, Sputtering, CVD, PLD, Evaporation, Plasma Etch, Bosh Process, Wet Etch, Lithography, Grinding and Polishing of wafers, Back end integration, Construction Defect investigation
Corrosion, Roofing, Waterproofing, Fenestration
Residential concrete, Balcony, stairway and Exposed Exterior Element investigation, Estimation in Residential construction, Sales, Coatings design
Street racing motorcycles, Amateur boxing, Banjo, 5-string Scruggs style, Singing...
And many more....
"Specialization is for insects"
Robert Heinlein