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Hello, welcome to Carcast on Math and Motorrader D Andrea. We're going to be down a man today. Bill Goldberg, he's going to be out today. He's got some other stuff that he's got to take care of.

But look, no problem. We've got a great guest today. We've got our friend Davis Lee. He's an automotive designer and quite the resumes worked on a number of different projects and a number of different companies over the years.

We just wanted to catch up and see what's going on in your world, Davis. How are you? Good. Thank you. How are you doing? We're doing well. So I noticed that.

So you're you're at a company now, aadro. Is that right? Yes, yes, aadro.

But you've you've been in the design world working for projects. I don't know. I guess as a as a freelance way of doing it, working on the they may box six, which was the vision six, which is a really cool concept car that we saw.

I believe it pebble beach a few years back. You've been doing some work with with Tesla, BMW, Kia, Rivian. How is that?

How are you jumping into all of those projects is is is it through your company?

Yeah, actually, I was part of design team and Mercedes also with Hyundai and Rivian. So I was actually designing for their products.

And I've been in the industry for about 11 years all together. And being an automotive designer at OEM, you get a lot of chances to work on future cars and a lot of projects.

It's super exciting. You learn a lot. But I started my career at aadro about 11 months ago, because I felt like the automotive industry, the OEMs are huge, but the life cycle of designing a car takes about.

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