# Stephanie Whalen > Product Design Manager at Apple Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephaniewhalen Product design and mechanical engineering. Bring me your hardest challenges! swhalen.me Design work in consumer electronics, medical device, manufacturing, and more. Top quality prototypes and designs that scale. My mission is to help you release the right product at the right time. Visit my portfolio at swhalen.me. ## Work Experience ### Product Design Manager @ Apple Jan 2020 – Present | Cupertino, California, United States ### Mechanical Engineering Consultant @ Self Jan 2014 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Mechanical design consulting, independent ### Product Development Manager @ NewDealDesign Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California ### Engineer @ Swope Design Solutions Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California Helped companies design and scale awesome products (among many things). Mechanical design consultancy and machine shop in the heart of San Francisco. ### Senior Engineer @ Radius Innovation & Development Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Employee 5 in San Jose, 1st mechanical engineer Design/build/testing of first products of their kind Major consumer electronics and medical clients Developed several trade show/consumer study ready, functional prototypes in under two weeks, including software development, board bring up, and enclosures with advanced surfacing (prototyped by 3D printing and machining) ### Engineer @ Radius Innovation & Development Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Development Engineer @ SKULLY Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Complete with heads-up display, rear-view camera feed, GPS navigation, cell phone pairing, and much more, the SKULLY helmet brings fighter pilot tech to the motorycle rider. My priorities include: - Defining and driving product specifications based on a variety of design inputs (user experience, safety, regulatory, manufacturing) - Ensuring the helmet meets those specifications as ship date approaches through vigorous testing with various laboratories and experts - Innovating the whole design process to reduce time to market. Finding solutions that are at the apex of maximum user experience for minimal development time. - Coordinating a multinational team of various areas of expertise (electrical, mechanical, manufacturing) ### R&D Engineer @ St. Jude Medical Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 - Continuous improvement of an emerging EP diagnostic catheter line. Incorporated RoHS compliant technologies into the current catheter which exceeded strength requirements and complied with upcoming regulatory requirements. Developed new mechanical test methods for flexible printed circuit board testing. Evaluated technologies in thoroughly researched reports, including extensive data analysis, cross-section photos, intermetallic compound (IMC) measurements, and EDS spectra. - Highlighted design concerns for an ablation catheter assembly through tolerance analysis of critical assembly components, providing information for developing product and process specifications. - Continued engineering of a new curve shape for an ablation catheter. Completed all updates before required deadlines. Primary point of contact with injection-molded component suppliers. - Supported cables and generator manufacturing group, helping them completely eliminate the growing list of backorders for their product. ### Founding Member @ Helmet Hub Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Boston, MA I designed and built a helmet dispensing system, Helmet Hub, alongside a team of fellow MIT mechanical engineers in order to meet public safety concerns of a growing cyclist community. Our design won the MIT 2.009 Design Competition for 2011, and captured the attention of the media and bikeshare programs worldwide. Our energy-efficient, sleek, user-friendly design was solar-powered and space-efficient, making it an appealing option for busy cities and bikeshare programs. In November 2013, the first official HelmetHub device debuted in Boston. For more information, see "Projects" below. ### Mechanical Engineering Intern, Wafer Test @ IBM Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Burlington, Vermont Area Prepared the company for a transition into a thin film interposers (TFIs) to substrate-integrated pins for wafer testing. Design of experiments, forensics, metrology, electron dispersion spectroscopy. ### Environmental Engineering Intern @ HSA Engineers & Scientists Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Fort Myers, Florida Area ### Electrical Engineering Intern @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Electrical design for the MIT Space Propulsion Lab on iEPS, an ion electrospray propulsion system, for 1-kg satellites called CubeSats (See below for more details). ### Intern @ DeWolfe Engineering Associates, Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Burlington, Vermont Area Civil/structural engineering services. Drafting, CAD, site surveying, and other office tasks. ## Education ### BS in Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Master of Business Administration - MBA Quantic School of Business and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sawhalen - Portfolio: https://swhalen.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephaniewhalen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephaniewhalen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13