Providing engineering and product leadership to accelerate and de-risk hardware development.

Versatile mechanical engineer / industrial designer / program manager with deep expertise in driving business impact, productizing new technologies, and delivering innovative products to market

Effective player/coach with strong communication skills who has mentored and managed activities across functional teams

Specialties span across development and operations: team leadership and coaching, technical project management, interaction & usability, making ID concepts into manufacturable products, requirements documentation, cost optimization, DFM, supplier collaboration, innovation methods, resource management, data-driven consumer insights, electronics integration

Lead and collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team in designing, developing, and deploying new to world solar application. Provide strategic technical direction, optimize product development cycles, and foster a culture of excellence and sustainability.

Product Innovation - I identify hunting grounds across clients’ product portfolios on where to renovate and innovate; I have designed and led multidisciplinary innovation sprints and diagnostics leveraging category, consumer, and product insights to envision new product offerings and solutions

Product Commercialization - I enable highest ROI possible by remediating complex, overbudget and delayed projects; I have led, managed, and contributed expertise to dozens of next gen product development programs from idea to manufacturing across consumer, industrial, cleantech / renewables, and life sciences sectors

Product Optimization – I deliver revenue and margin growth by uncovering cost, experience, and sustainability opportunities; I have improved upon current Design to Value offering to include 1) rapid consumer sentiment insights to target critical features, 2) packaging and assembly insights to reduce stock outs and shipping costs; and 3) product insights to reduce material costs and improve customer experience

Parallel role with above, post acquisition. Continue to represent LUNAR product design, developing value proposition with internal client service teams, and drive Firm knowledge in sustainable product & package design and rapid ideation & prototyping by leveraging digitally-enabled tools including generative design, 3D CAD, as well as social listening consumer insights and Agile methods for hardware development