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Rick Chin Email & Phone Number
Product Management and Strategy Consulting
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@desktopmetal.com
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Product Management and Strategy Consulting
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Rick Chin is listed as Product Management and Strategy Consulting based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at desktopmetal.com, phone signal with area code 508, 978, 800, 785, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Rick Chin.
Rick Chin previously worked as Product Management & Strategy Consulting at Freelance and Chief Product Officer at Makelab. Rick Chin holds Bs, Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute Of Technology.
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About Rick Chin
I strive to invent compelling software which resonates functionally and emotionally with customers. My role is to create an actionable vision and strategy that meshes the customers’ most important needs and aspirations with our business goals. I then lead by achieving clarity, team alignment, and serving my team to ensure every member is equipped to succeed.35 year tech veteran. Roles I have held include software engineer, product manager, application engineer, inventor, independent consultant and unicorn startup co-founder.Notable products, projects and inventions: - eDrawings - eDw AR (Augmented Reality) - Active & Aware Features - Feature Chains - Community CAD proof-of-concept (POC) - Inter-CAD Assemblies POC - SolidWorks Sustainability - SolidWorks big data project - SolidWorks persona development - Xpress3D - Automatic support splitting - Adaptive infill POC - Fabricate software - Realtime tradeoff analysis - Adaptive-Z compensation - Fab FlowPatents: 7 active; 4 pending; 2 expiredSpecialties: Software strategy, design and management; 3D CAD and solid modeling; 3D printing (Additive Manufacturing).Blog - rickchin.com
Listed skills include Product Design, Solidworks, Cad, Rapid Prototyping, and 29 others.
13 roles
Rick Chin work experience
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Product Management & Strategy Consulting
Freelance
Helping teams in their early and strategic product efforts. These include the development of new products, productization of technology, and enhancing existing products so they better resonate with customers.I bring decades of experience, along with the lens of “Aspirational Product Design”, to help clients build solutions that their customers will love..
Chief Product Officer
Makelab provides localized 3D Printing services for teams. Scalability of the service is achieved through an innovative business model, its UX and software infrastructure.In my role as Makelab's CPO, I am focused on helping the team deliver an experience that is compelling, low friction, efficient and scalable.
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Co-Founder
Bantr Corp.
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Cofounder And Vp Of Software Development
Upon the founding of Desktop Metal, I built the initial software team. Its role was to develop the cloud software (Fabricate) that was part of our first product, the Studio System. A three device system to print metal prototypes in an “office friendly” manner. Our software provided print preparation and process management for the devices. The software was.
Oct 2015 - May 2020
Director Of Product Innovation
Led the "Big Data" team which analyzed SolidWorks User Performance data. Project goal was to turn collected data in actionable insights for both internal SolidWorks use and for our end users. Major deliverables included user segmentation based on how SolidWorks is used, and tables of association rules which quantify the correlations between the commands in.
Oct 2006 - Sep 2015
Inventor & Consultant
Cadapult3D
Consultant to SolidWorks Corp. (4/05-10/06): Led the SolidWorks team in a production implementation of the technology which they acquired from me. I served in the roles of Product Definition and Project Manager. Achieved our goal of delivering the technology in the SolidWorks 2007 release. The technology was released under the names FeatureXpert.
Jun 2004 - Oct 2006
President And Founder
Xpress3D, Inc.
Created a company focused on providing an online marketplace of vendors who provide prototyping services (rapid prototyping) to engineers. Company innovations included the integration of quoting into the engineer's 3D design tool. Engineers were provided quotes from multiple vendors in only seconds.I established and ran the company. Other responsibilities.
Nov 2001 - Jun 2004
Director, Edrawings Initiative
Solidworks Corporation
Joined SolidWorks as the 17th employee before there was a released product. Worked closely and provided technical support to COO as the initial sales channel was buildt. Also worked closely with the CEO to promote company during early PR efforts.Other early responsibilities include support and training of the VAR technical teams.Later tasked by the CEO to.
May 1995 - Jun 2001
Pro/Engineer Consultant
Assisted my customers in their implementations of the Pro/E CAD/CAM system into their engineering environments. Work included solid modeling, detailing, developing company standards, & training. Customers: Neles-Jamesbury, Beloit Fiber Systems, and Riley-Stoker.
Aug 1994 - May 1995
Product Manager
Began as an Applications Engineer during PTC's high growth years. Technical half of sales team for Pro/Engineer CAD/CAM product. Eventually became a regional then national product specialist for Pro/Manufacturing. Then became a product manager for the manufacturing product.
Sep 1991 - Aug 1994
Computer Methods Engineer
In house expert on Unigraphics CAD/CAM system. Assisted engineers in surface and solid modeling tasks. Provided training classes in various CAD topics.
Mar 1990 - Sep 1991
Software Engineer
Mcdonnell Douglas Engineering Systems Company
Worked on MDC'sUnigraphics CAM (manufacturing) package. First to integrate Parasolid solid modeling kernal into the CAM software.
May 1988 - Feb 1990
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Rick Chin education
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New Jersey Institute Of Technology
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Rick Chin is listed as Product Management and Strategy Consulting.
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Rick Chin is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
What companies has Rick Chin worked for?
Rick Chin has worked for Freelance, Makelab, Bantr Corp., Desktop Metal, and Dassault Systèmes.
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Rick Chin holds Bs, Mechanical Engineering from New Jersey Institute Of Technology.
What skills is Rick Chin known for?
Rick Chin is listed with skills including Product Design, Solidworks, Cad, Rapid Prototyping, Cad/Cam, Product Marketing, Solid Modeling, and Product Launch.
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