Mechanical Design Engineer
With over a decade of design experience in system, component, and tool design, I have developed an aptitude for supporting healthy team dynamics and creativity. My experiences have instilled in me the values of good leadership that encourages and empowers others.
I strive to solve problems and design with enthusiastic creativity from the ideation stage downstream to all details of implementation. Having begun my career in woodworking, I continue to enjoy the opportunities to merge aesthetics with function and engineering- working alongside industrial designers and customers, and taking into consideration first impressions and the whole user experience.
I am known to bring innovative new ideas to the table and adapt quickly to new problem environments and constraints. I understand part manufacturing methods well enough to leverage them effectively in all my designs to maximize functionality.
I love the prototyping, iteration process that goes with product development and building with creative strategies that find the right balance of detail vs speed. I have experience with manufacturing tool design, cost sensitive products, hand held devices and semiconductor components.
I am versed in part fabrication processes of injection molding, sheet metal, spring forming, CNC, cables, thick film, and PCBs and I utilize good CAD practices, tolerancing, stress analysis, thermal evaluation, RF shielding, and robust verification testing to produce quality innovative products consumers can depend on