I am a Mechanical Engineer with over 25 years of experience in Product Design and Mechanical Engineering with experience of developing and maturing novel technologies, from concepts through to manufactured products. I’ve work on complex robotics system, mass produced consumer products and a few things in between.One of the behaviors I developed early in my career was a Fail Fast mentality - from CNC machining prototype parts to test concepts, challenging prototype techniques and capabilities to get parts quickly or performing FEA simulations to understand performance of parts under extreme use cases. Without understanding failure, you cannot expect to measure robustness of any solution to real world use cases.I have led and built-up design teams, and coached, mentored, and influenced large teams of engineers outside of my direct reporting structure. I have many years of leading and chairing design reviews, detailed part reviews or detailed drawing reviews and sign-off. I have helped develop review methods at various companies and I am a firm believer in standard work so team members have clear expectations of what is needed in reviews - and importantly what is not.I have championed the use of DFMEAs in recent roles, making sure data captured is meaningful and forms part of the toolset a design team is using day to day. Working with a system level view to ensure boundaries are clearly understood and accessed, identifying many often-neglected interfaces along the way.I have led several root cause investigations using tools such as DMAIC and 5 why’s to rapidly get to the source of an issue; then with the team building understanding to solve problems but importantly taking learnings away to help avoid reoccurrence through improved design processes/guides or simple knowledge sharing initiatives.I am looking for my next role where I can make a real impact by apply my engineering skills, as well as coaching and influencing others around me.