Sawyer Hutson Email & Phone Number

Richmond, VA, US

Diggs, Virginia, United States

Ensuring the team has the resources they need to get the job done in a way that provides a sense of purpose, community, and growth.

RTP, NC

• Support clients on human factors, device engineering, compliance, commercialization, and manufacturing challenges related to pharmaceutical, combination, and medical device products.
• Lead preparation and execution of human factors formative testing.
• Support execution of human factors validation testing.
• Support ideation and implementation of human factors regulatory strategy.
• Author Use Specifications, Use Task Analyses (UTAs), Comparative Analyses (CA), Known Issues Reports, Use-related Risk Analyses (URRAs), Use Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (uFMEA), and Human Factors/Usability.
• Support User Interface (UI) design and development for combination products and stand-alone medical devices

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Assisted between university classes and during academic breaks in the development of a novel device for label-free molecular binding quantification.Roles/Responsibilities included:
• Designed and executed experiments related to fluidics, molecular binding quantification, and optical systems
• Designed in SolidWorks for additive manufacturing in order to produce testing apparatus
• Programed electro-mechanical subsystems that combine robotics and fluidic pumps
• Analyzed fluidic and optical data in order to establish device performance
• Visualized datasets in order to communicate experimental conclusions to supervisors

United States

• Performed market research concerning respiratory combination devices to assist the ProcessChemistry Department.
• Performed landscape assessments for nebulizers, dry-powder inhalers, and metered dose inhalers in support of commercialization strategy
• Collected and visualized data in excel resulting in presentation of findings to department directors
• Established candidate device specifications and attributes by literature and public documentation review

Diggs, VA

• Mastered rope splicing and tensile testing techniques in order to produce consumer and militarygrade rope assemblies used by the US Armed Forces and the commercial shipping industry.
• Tested assemblies in compliance with QC standards for tensile strength, elongation at failure, and ultimate strength up to 400,000 lbf
• Operated testing equipment for cyclic loading and break testing of synthetic rope assemblies
• Followed standard protocols to encase synthetic rope assemblies with abrasion resistant polymer coatings
• Spliced synthetic rope in support of helicopter reach pendant manufacturing