•Member of a six person team of Stanford and Norwegian University of Science and Technology students tasked with making an innovative modular product to solve current issues within aquaculture businesses, a highly competitive industry with large academic and corporate presence.
•My roles included project management, user recruitment, creating discussion guides, interviewing, synthesizing research, and presenting research findings.
•Concluded the project with full scale, working prototypes, a presentation to 300+ audience members, and a trade show style booth created to showcase the project.
•Based on prototype testing, we anticipate our solution would lead to a two- thirds reduction in labor hours during the growth of an oyster. For the small to mid-sized farms we worked with, this would lead to a 15% reduction in annual operating costs.
•Yanmar, a large multinational corporation in this space, chose to continue development of our concept after our final presentation.