Chris Ruf Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Design consulting for consumer, medical & industrial products. Available as a single resource or in collaboration with other professionals.

Greater Atlanta Area

Product Design & Development for consumer electronics.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Led formal project reviews identifying critical design, scope, & process issues on the top innovation projects. Led team of experts, and developed critical action plans. Saved $ millions of tooling revision cost.
• Design Analysis for wide product range using Structural FEA, CFD/Fluids, & Moldflow analysis tools from Ansys, PTC & Autodesk.
• Taught engineering simulation skills across the R&D team.
• Selected & Implemented predictive modeling tools for the engineering organization (PTC, Ansys, Autodesk, etc.).
• Developed a Predictive Modeling Team in Chennai, India.
• Developed & Taught Engineering Best Practices & Technical Skills across the 500+ person global R&D organization.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed & Championed best practices across Newell's global R&D team.
• Conduct training on technical skills such as FEA & Moldflow analysis to develop global R&D team.
• Drive corporate-wide approach to risk assessment through DFMEA template & training.
• Review and audit the progress of design projects across Newell's many brands.
• Recruit for full-time R&D team and summer interns.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Transformed Industrial Design concepts into functional, manufacturable products for Dymo, Rubbermaid Consumer & Commercial Products.
• Developed new products from concept to final production. Created Creo CAD models, drawings, & specifications. Utilized FEA & Mold Flow Analysis to assure successful designs. Created tolerance stack-ups & critical.
• Managed design engineer intern. Mentored Design Engineer & Intern on project management, design process, product design, technologies & CAD etc.
• Worked with marketing, led concept brainstorming, developing concepts into working prototypes.
• Managed projects, and met all deadlines, factoring financial requirements into designs.
• Worked with US, Belgian, and Chinese manufacturing facilities.

Roswell, GA

• Generated product specification models & drawings in SolidWorks CAD for medical products.
• Audited & rebuilt 3D SolidWorks CAD database. Reviewed production drawings and designs to ensure adherence to specifications & standards.
• Coordinated design team in GA with production teams in AZ & Mexico.
• Generated best practices to standardize and organize healthcare design team.

Marietta, GA

• Design leadership for global design team and led the first in-house hardware development team for tools at CribMaster. Coordinated with teams across 4 states & France.
• Incorporated leading-edge RFID technology into aerospace hand tools to improve ergonomics, & RFID performance. Foreign Object Damage (FOD) prevention to save lives, damage to aircraft, engines & spacecraft. Designs met.
• Designed 215 products on a tight deadline. ProtoID line increased profitability to 49%.
• Verified structure of tools with Pro/E Mechanica FEA. Conducted reliability test program.
• Concept ideation led to 3 utility patents.
• Introduced bridge tooling technology to meet demanding schedule. Designs & manufacturing techniques optimized for low volume production. Wrote assembly procedures.

Kennesaw, GA

• Awarded 29+ US Utility & Design Patents.
• Designed Medical Products. Developed Personal Diabetes testing devices, Clinical Blood Sampling, Drug Inhalers, Urinary Tract Surgery devices, Infant & Neonatal testing devices, Handicap Assistive device, and ergonomic.
• Project Management, led design teams. Coordinated US, European & Asian clients and suppliers.
• Integrated Ergonomic, Aesthetic, Styling, & Color aspects, while meeting the FDA GMPs & ISO 13485/ISO 9001 requirements for FDA Class I & II Devices, cost constraints and schedules.
• Specialized in Injection Molded parts design. Mechanism Design, focusing on ease of assembly (manual & automated).
• Built Prototypes for concept sales, user studies and medical trials.