Our effort to highlight and recognize the terrific teammates who make our work here at re:3D possible continues in 2026 with a new blog post spotlighting the Operations team. Cheyena, Jim, and Annabelle turn the visions of our Engineering team into concrete realities, as well as ensuring that our bots get to customers in a safe and timely fashion!
CHEYENA
Cheyena Davis, our Operations Manager, has worked for re:3D for more than ten years, starting out when she was only 15! Her mother worked for re:3D in logistics as well as being the first office manager, and Cheyena started out her long journey with re:3D by doing odds and ends for the company. She had the opportunity to learn about our tech from the Gigabot’s original designers, and progressed from helping with subassemblies and electronics to executing full builds of bots when she was still just a teenager. By 2020, Cheyena was running the Ops department at re:3D on her own.
Among her many achievements at re:3D, Cheyena has taught domestic and international Gigabot users to build and service bots; managed many testing regimens and upgrades to printer models over the years; and generally contributed to or supervised the building of hundreds of re:3D printers. (This includes the record number of eighty bots the shop produced in 2023.) After the team’s move to Austin in 2024, Cheyena also supervised the reorganization and systematization of bot production here at re:3D headquarters. A big recreational reader, active crafter, and avid volleyball player, Cheyena is excited to see where the future development of Gigabot technology takes her and the company.
JIM
Jim Kelley is one of the newest members of the re:3D team, having joined us as Assembly Technician about ten months ago. Jim discovered re:3D by accident when searching for domestic 3D printing companies; having significant aptitude in electronics and hardware (including home 3D printing), Jim decided to try his hand at becoming a professional builder of large-scale printers. In the short time that he’s been with the company, Jim has progressed quickly from working on subassemblies and small components to executing full builds of bots on his own.
Jim is fascinated by technology, having worked in IT for many years as well as being a Linux home computing enthusiast. He appreciates the combination of art and science that building precision machines requires. Besides printing copiously at home (first on a Creality Ender and more recently a Bambu Labs A1), Jim’s abiding interest in science and technology is manifest in many other ways, for example his interest in podcasts, many of which are tech focused.
ANNABELLE
Rounding out the Operations team is Annabelle Dupont, Supply Chain Specialist. Annabelle handles all aspects of logistics for re:3D, from procurement, purchasing, and receiving to shipping (including wrangling the huge crates in which our bots are safely packed and sent all over the world!) Besides keeping the company’s shipping and receiving department running smoothly, Annabelle also works on other projects such as documenting logistics procedures and developing packing and shipping instructions both for the company and its customers and partners.
Notably, Annabelle has only worked for re:3D since 2022, but in a real sense she is a veteran of the company–she lived in the house where the first Gigabot was built all the way back in 2013! A longtime friend of the company, Annabelle came to Texas from France in 1991 and lived in Galveston and Houston. During the COVID pandemic, she left her job in the hospitality industry to help out the company and ended up taking over all aspects of logistics. A fun fact about Annabelle is that she is both a martial artist (she is a black belt in the Korean discipline Kuk Sool Won) and a fiber artist (being an enthusiastic knitter).
MICHAEL PREGILL | re:3D AMBASSADOR
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