Lex Band
Alexander "Lex" Band has been manufacturing hardware in the Bay Area for over a decade. A Colorado transplant, Lex grew up in the East Bay where it was apparent from an early age that he was destined to be an engineer. His childhood drawings were performed in the classic 3-view method preferred by ASME, and his favorite classes were woodshop and physics and he's still deeply passionate about both subjects. For college Lex returned to Colorado where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder where his passion for material science, composites fabrication, and hardware fabrication only grew deeper during his three years as an undergraduate research assistant.
Upon graduation Lex was quickly back in the Bay Area working hands on at a contract manufacturer where he mastered the art and science of high mix, high volume manufacturing in AS and ISO regulated environments. Leveraging his diverse skill set in design, manufacturing, and quality engineering Lex became the lead manufacturing engineer working on the superconducting magnet upgrade for the Large Hadron Collider as well as the SLAC beam line update. Never satisfied with the glacial pace of government work, Lex moved into the biomedical engineering field where he supported the production of equipment used to discover treatments for covid-19. Now Lex has taken on the mission of developing Seismic's manufacturing systems so that production can be scaled to volumes capable of disrupting the powered PPE market.
When he's not designing pioneering safety systems Lex is sailing, gardening, hiking with his dog Tiberius, reading sci-fi books, or watching educational programming about myriad scientific subjects. In the summer of 2021 Lex attended the J-70 Sailing World Championship, and placed 4th overall in the local San Francisco regatta series.