Bresslergroup merged with Delve in 2021

As a human factors engineer + project manager at design concepts I work on both physical and digital product design of medical and consumer products. I participate in the entire design process including discovery research, design inputs, conceptual design, preference and usability testing, research analysis and documentation, regulatory and implementation. Many of those activities involve interactions with clinicians and/or key opinion leaders.In my role of project manager I coordinate team members (including internal team members and client team members), timelines and budgets to ensure the overall success of the project. Leading a team as a human factors project manager allows me to determine the appropriate timing of user studies as well as the proper fidelity of the stimuli to optimize the impact of the research on the emergent design.

Our objective was to make technology more usable for people with disabilities but our research included not only those with disabilities but also older adults and able-bodied adults of all ages. Touch screen usability was the primary focus of my involvement.

During my post-doc time at UW-Madison I received a research fellowship from the Center for Women's Health where I worked with clinicians to quantify upper extremity functional loss in aging adults with the goal of improving their ability to perform activities of daily living.I also studied touch screen usability - specifically researching how people with physical disabilities and older adults interact with this technology.

Beloit corporation had a semi-unique co-op program which was essentially a management training program. As a co-op, I worked throughout the entire company (roughly 5000 employees prior to bankruptcy) during summers and a program-required semester off from college. I worked in many engineering departments, purchasing, logistics, R&D, machine shop, etc. Beloit Corporation (which designed and manufactured paper machines) was a great learning experience because of the massive scale of paper machines (and associated design challenges) and seeing so many aspects of a large company.