Matt Herron Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineering and Management leadership for the Medical Device Industry and Consumer Electronics, with a focus on Mechanical Engineering.Matt brings a lifetime of innovation and design experience to bear, helping.
• Creating proof-of-concept and clinical trial prototypes•
• Generating patentable intellectual property•
• Project Planning and Program Management•
• Engineering creative solutions to intractable technical challenges•
• Designing complex mechanical and robotic sub-systems•

Newark, CA

Responsible for development and introduction of a variety of consumer focused robotic floor cleaning robots. Grew and managed a team of engineers in development of new technologies and platforms for next generation of robotic cleaners. Expanded the R&D infrastructure, including and optics lab, machine shop, laser cutter, 3D Printers, etc. Led development.

Newark, CA

Oraya delivers noninvasive robotically controlled treatments for inflammatory and neovascular diseases of the eye. Matt created product concepts and renderings that helped secure seed funding for the company. He designed, built and programmed a Cartesian robot for early X-Ray energy characterization. As Director of Product Design, he designed x-ray beam.

Seattle, WA

Matt was responsible for the Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, and Graphical User Interface of a complex medical system used in targeting radiation for the treatment of prostate and breast cancer. He led a team of 12 internal and external engineers from product concept to finished design in 18 months. Design solutions included exotic composite.

Menlo Park, CA

As Vice President of Product Development, Matt was responsible for leading the Mechanical and Industrial Design teams to completion of SoftBook’s IDSA Gold award winning electronic books. These were the first eBooks ever designed and built, paving the way for the now hugely successful product category. Matt planned and executed the product development.

Sunnyvale, CA

As Vice President of Engineering, Matt was responsible for growing the Mechanical Engineering Dept. from 4 people and $400K annually, into an exceptionally effective and profitable team of 15 people generating over five million in gross revenues for FY' 96. He personally directed multiple design teams to the successful completion of numerous consumer.

Cupertino, CA

Matt was part of a small group of managers responsible for the product design, industrial design, and prototyping of the first PowerPC based RISC computers, code named Hurricane and Jaguar. During that time, Matt aggressively promoted solids based CAD/CAM to reduce time to market. He helped launch the first notebooks and sub-notebooks Apple ever made, and.

Palo Alto, CA

Design Consultant at this world class product design firm. Responsible for significant contributions in innovative and analytical engineering, as well as client and project management over a broad range of products.

Bs, Ms, Product Design & Engineering

2 Yrs Towards Bs, Aerospace Engineering

Two years towards ME in Aerospace, then transferred to Stanford.