Michael Pica Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

WHAT WE DO: Provide fractional product, engineering, manufacturing and g2m leadership services to accelerate your hardware product to market.WHO WE ARE: A team of highly experienced leaders and engineers, with experience across a broad range of industries and through dozens of product development cycles.HOW WE DO IT: Hardware Velocity works with your leadership team to put a unique plan in place tailored to your company - product roadmaps, program plans, hiring plans, development processes - whatever is required to increase your speed to market.WHO WE DO IT FOR: Hardware start ups that have raised initial seed capital or are venture backed for engineering development benefit most. Whether external engineering firms have been brought on, or your company has a full time engineering team and needs support, Hardware Velocity can help.Organizations Supported, Past and Present:- Adheretech, Empo Health, Swippitt, Belay, Opal, Gabi Smartcare, Sandbar, Simple Booth, Quip, Shade, Digital Lumens, Eversound, Wesper, V-Armed, S'well, Norbert Health, Coin, Repone, BioliteLearn more - https://www.hwvelocity.com/

Scale For ClimateTech (S4C) provides immersive training on manufacturing for climate tech hardware innovators, along with a team dedicated to making manufacturing easier — from mentors, experts in the field and product and packaging designers, to manufacturers, suppliers, and investors. S4C aims to scale-up the manufacturing and delivery of innovative climatetech hardware products and solutions to the New York State market in support of New York’s Climate Act goals and to foster and promote climatetech hardware design, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain development in New York State. Each company receives access to dedicated mentors, entry into the New York State hardware ecosystem, Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) assessments from industry experts, a deeper understanding of GHG metrics and impact in their target market, customized roadmap development, and introductions to strategic partnerships, investors, and founder-friendly contract manufacturers to commercialize technology in New York State and beyond.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

New York, Us

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Seed funded start up. Developed QMS implementation plan for hardware and supply chain, selected operational consultants and developed manufacturing and ops plan, and scoped and drove accredited lab test effort for medical device delivery.

Venture backed start up. Worked with product management to define hardware architecture for next generation IoT hardware platform, and defined plan for sunsetting of field product version and roll out of new product version, requiring buy in from different department heads across the organization. Led to proactive purchase of long lead time components, to stay ahead of global chip shortage in 2022.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Acquired by OSRAM. Products Released: Battery Back Up for RLE, Push Button Couplers, Wireless Power Meters, Sensor Control Nodes

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Venture backed start up. Products Released: Firepit, HeadLamp 330, HeadLamp 200, SolarHome 5000

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Seed funded start up. Products Released: Shade Sensor V1, Shade Sensor V2

Venture backed start up, acquired by Fitbit. Products Released: Coin V1, Coin V2

Washington, Dc, Us

Worked as an R&D project engineer, with technical projects involving analog and digital circuits and mechanical design and analysis. Managed companies for manufacture consulting work in metal photolithography.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering