The Hardshell Labs Team
The Hardshell Labs Team

Tim Shields
Founder | President
Desert biologist Tim Shields has 35+ years experience in the field, logging some 25,000 miles on foot, surveying and making observations. Shields has authored, co-authored and illustrated numerous scientific papers, is generally recognized…

Jeff Cummings
Chief Financial Officer | Chief Operating Officer
Jeff Cummings is a finance director with experience as CFO, Controller and Corporate Secretary roles in publicly traded and privately held companies…

Sarah Shields, Esq.
Corporate Secretary | General Counsel
Sarah Shields is an expert counselor, legal strategist and litigator with over twenty years of success handling high profile, complex legal cases of national significance....

Rand De Mattei
Chief Marketing | Business Development
Rand De Mattei’s primary focus is to help affect the company’s growth, seeking to commercialize HSL’s humane, bird-pest management technologies, practices, and services into profitable applications and markets beyond research and conservation science.

William Boarman, Ph.D.
Lead Scientist
Dr. Boarman, founder and owner of Conservation Science Research & Consulting, and former research wildlife scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Bureau of Land Management, has over...

Roy A. Haggard
Design Engineer Consultant
Roy Haggard has extensive engineering experience in aircraft, parachute and inflatable structure design and production...

Frank Guercio
Engineer
Frank & Craig represent a young wunderkind in engineering and a potential heir...

Craig Sherwood
Biologist
Craig Sherwood recently completed field work as part of HSL’s desert tortoise protection program as a raven nest monitor, drone pilot and desert tortoise behavioral consultant.

Mike Austin
co-Founder Emeritus
Michael D. Austin, founder of a private financial forecasting fund. …collaborative manager amid 3+ decades of firsts on teams which included Hardshell’s 3D printing....