Andrew's Bio

Humanscale

Product Design Engineer

St Paul, MN

May 2016 – Present

  • Worked closely with Industrial Designers and Product Managers to develop new ergonomic solutions from concept to production.

  • Created product validation framework, combining key industry standards (UL, CE, BIFMA) with product requirements to ensure all designs provided a safe and satisfying customer experience for the life of the product. 

  • Traveled to China to work with contract manufacturers, leading DFMEA and product validation testing efforts, and ensuring successful completion of preliminary manufacturing runs. 

  • Responded quickly to existing product redesign initiatives, minimizing time between product versions and working with production managers to ensure smooth transitions between product versions.

 

Allsteel

Product Design Engineer

Muscatine, IA

Aug 2014 – Dec 2015

  • Collaborated with designers, product managers to develop new product lines engineered for smooth supply chain progression using internal PDP framework

  • Created a customized internal reporting system that uses quality and cost metrics to identify products for quality and cost-savings related redesign

  • Managed multiple existing product redesign initiatives, targeting ergonomic, quality and cost objectives using FMEA techniques

  • Tested product to internal and industry standards, ensuring products upheld quality requirements through all possible environments and potential use cases using specialized thermal, humidity, impact, vibration and loading test equipment

  • Served as liaison between manufacturing and product design for multiple Rapid Continuous Improvement teams in a LEAN manufacturing environment

  • Served as company representative to industry standards board

 

Rubitection Inc.

Product Design Engineering Intern

May 2012 – Sep 2012

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  • Designed a handheld pressure ulcer detection device for hospital and home health care use

  • Performed economic analysis of product to assess the impact of design tradeoffs on cost and price

  • Analyzed various ISO- and FDA-compliant manufacturing methods to determine ensuing design changes