• Built and lead a studio of seven mechanical design and electromechanical engineers.

• Responsible for team leadership and mentorship and technical oversight of project work.

• Built relationships with strategic business partners to accelerate business growth and add value for our clients.

• Acted as Studio Principal, Project Manager, and Technical Lead, on simultaneous projects.

• Helped clients tackle their biggest engineering challenges, explore new technologies, and bring their new products from concept to production quickly.

Independent consultant leading clients through the product development process from start to finish including customer research, product specification, concept generation, design engineering, prototyping, and testing through to production ramp support. Mentored startups and guided them through the new product development process.

• Provided cross-functional program integration support working closely with management, marketing, industrial design, electrical engineering, quality, regulatory, manufacturing, operations and supply chain.

• Coordinated project teams and resources on product introduction projects to produce high performance, fully functional, tested, compliance-ready products in budget and on time.

• Advised client management teams to help set company's strategic design direction.

Designed and developed beautiful, reliable, high-volume, and low-cost mobile credit card readers and brought them to high-volume production.

Product Design Lead on current and future card reader products.

I led an interdisciplinary team including R&D, marketing, quality assurance, and supply chain/manufacturing in the development of the next generation of Ventus’ Medical's novel respiratory therapy device.

My duties included ideating device concepts to meet clinical and market needs, prototyping device concepts including creating CAD models and drawings and interacting with prototyping vendors, conducting user research, developing test methods, protocols and fixtures, performing validation and verification testing, analyzing data and presenting results, supporting clinical studies and working closely with supply chain and manufacturing to bring devices to production.