Industrial Design Manager
]10/2020 - Current
West Pharmaceutical Services
• Manager, R&D, Industrial Design: set strategic direction for Industrial Design. Participated in yearly R&D strategic planning with leaders within West.
• Responsible for R&D Advanced Design Programs converting high-level initiative objectives into multiple architectural-level design concepts and looks like prototypes for demos and new product development
• Aligns with R&D Applied Research leadership in support of developing next-gen design, tech, home health, and other West product portfolios.
• Hired, built, managed, and lead the industrial design team of designers. Responsible for ID talent recruitment, staff performance reviews, salary planning, and employee career mapping. Support my team in reaching goals and milestones.
• Proven leader with out-of-the-box, innovative, and strategic thinking in an ever-changing fast pasted environment.
• Establishes best practices for industrial design, introducing usability processes and user-first empathetic design approach, contextual design, and set processes for the ID team for example submit all designs to the intellectual property and human factors department.
• Collaborate with cross-functional R&D teams, including electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, biomedical engineers, system engineers, scientists, and human factors SMEs on global teams
• Communicate Status, Presentations, Demonstrations, and Project Updates and progress of various objectives to top management and senior leadership.
• Extensive product development experience, designing solutions and building products from early concept phases through manufacturing.
• Engaged in global cross-functional collaboration with engineering and supported product teams for West's vast portfolio of products, human factors, marketing, program direction, and intellectual property lawyer.
• Act as the voice of ID to stakeholders and C-level management. Present proposals and final designs to executive leadership.
• Increased the visibility, education, and influence on the value of Industrial Design within the R&D organization (headcount was increased by 150% and projected to increase by 400% by EOY)
• Lead, influence, empower and motivate global teams to implement best design practices via user-centric design, and innovation through analysis of unmet needs and new opportunities within the existing market
• Lead projects from an industrial design perspective in the early research phase of product development within ambiguous environments to identify opportunities and challenges that disrupt those spaces
• Participated in the Temple Women's Leadership Spring Series 2022
Senior Industrial Designer
01/2016 - 10/2019
Zuko Inc
(Parent Company of La Lumiere, LLC)
• Lead designer on several projects and participated in all-design product phases, from initial ideation to manufacture-ready product with ownership of design thinking, design intent and outputs.
• Executed design direction and conceptualisation of FDA-approved medical consumer products acquired by Johnson & Johnson and pending negotiations with other Fortune 500 companies.
• Designed and presented product presentations to C-level executives at stakeholder meetings.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams across client’s firm including their internal R&D team, global marketing team, global design team and regulatory team; ability to effectively communicate design intent and collaborate well across multiple stakeholders yielded successful delivery of product design.
• Conducted research for all product phases (including user interviews, surveys, usability testing, prototypes) and analyzed feedback to refine design and improve user experience.
• Prototyped aesthetic models and functional models for prove of concept and stakeholder meetings.
• Supported patent registration with detailed designs and technical specifications.
Industrial Designer
01/2015- 01/2016
La Lumiere, LLC
(Acq. by Johnson & Johnson)
• Designed and further developed illuMask FDA approved medical products acquired by Johnson and Johnson.
• Conducted user research: User interview, usability testing, prototyping necessary supplies for testing.
• Researched new technology and design opportunities in new product development
• Collaborated with engineers, doctors, designers on identifying opportunities, solving problems with design thinking and retaining user driven design and design intent through to manufacture.
Industrial Design Intern
08/2014 - 11/2014
root
• Designed and conceptualized irrigation systems for a start-up incubated in Plug and Play.
• Collaborated with engineers, designers and farmers on understanding the design needs and new design solutions
• Generated proof of concept prototyping and did product testing.
• Created visuals for stake-holder presentation, app and website.