Steven Savas is a Principal Consultant | Engineering Director | Founder at Savas Solutions LLC. He possess expertise in solidworks, product design, engineering, cad, product development and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Steven and I worked together on a very challenging medical device / robotics project where we co-developed new technology and managed our own teams to converge on rapid prototypes and proof-of-concept systems. Product development involves significantly more than focused engineering in multiple disciplines such as mechanical, electronics and firmware design. It requires balancing a deep understanding of all these fields, while being creative and scientific in one’s process. Product developers are sometimes inventing and doing things that have never been done before, and under time and cost pressure. To run a product development consulting company, one must have mastered the arts of these disciplines, and be comfortable charting new territory and learning quickly from experiments to converge on successful designs. Savas Solutions offers this unique value to its clients. I enjoyed Steven's depth and breadth of both analytical and practical prototyping approaches to solve difficult problems. In the product development world, having a talented team, and physical assets like 3-D printers and machine tools, allows a design firm to iterate on designs far more quickly and effectively than larger companies can. Steven provided the client with significant value that larger companies don't offer in-house. My role at that medical device startup was Chief Architect, and Steven was Lead Mechanical Design Engineer. We both ran our own design firms and reported to the client together with our teams. Our work resulted in significant intellectual property that is now in review with the USPTO. Steven and I complemented each other's skills -- I provided new conceptual work, and Steven took that and designed novel, detailed designs involving space and, critically, strength-constrained components. Together, we rapidly converged in a period of nine months from 3-D printed rapid prototypes to fully CNC machined production representative designs with ID surfaces."