A seasoned hands-on product development leader with 19 years of experience leading engineering teams, championing usability, and bringing regulated products to market. Experienced in all stages from early phase voice of customer & ideation to later phase engineering & manufacturing. Passionate about company culture and building, leading, and learning from high performing teams... and shipping product. ••••••••• The longer story •••••••••Mechanical engineer by background, I am fluent in the design and innovation process across a huge breadth of industries and products, and also what it takes to go deep, build a team, and launch a product to market (as demonstrated at start-up Willow Pump).I have 10 years of experience leading innovation and engineering teams in the development of multi-discipline products. In a decade at IDEO, I was involved in over 50+ projects from early strategy/ research to late phase engineering, and led the medical and consumer product portfolios of work.I have 5 years of experience directing R&D at Silicon Valley medical device start-up Willow (founded out of the incubator ExploraMed). We delivered a consumer-medical product to market in 2017, won over 20 design and innovation awards, and grew the company and shipped next generation products and accessories to market. At Sonos, I was responsible for leading teams to bring new products/categories to market - from early conceptualization all the way to the manufacturing floor. In summary, I thrive in leading teams and balancing user, business, and technical needs alongside budget, schedule, and reality constraints.  I love to "do" more than talk, brainstorm like crazy, shepherd the user-centered design process, engineer elegant solutions, prototype and scale up for production, dive deep into whatever quality system is in play, and move development rapidly forward... all the while making the culture where we work the best it can be.Expertise:  team leadership, IP development (named on 20+ patents), design and innovation process, wearables, project planning, mechanical design, brainstorming, product management, medical device design, ID/ME/EE reconciliation, problem solving, concise communication, root cause analysis, project management, design of experiments (DOE), product requirements document (PRD), and design research (human factors), innovation, molding, ISO 13485, us and foreign suppliers, design for manufacturing (DFM), engineering management, innovation management, quality assurance, electro-mechanical.