Notable Accomplishments:
- Redeveloped the core product’s mechanical components, reducing cost and improving user experience.
- Implemented version control protocols for the mechanical engineering team enabling rollbacks of design and multi-user access.
- Advocated for and expanded testing in adverse and real-world conditions for the mechanical aspects of newly developed systems.
Key Responsibilities:
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Develop concepts into marketable finished products within budget and time constraints. - Developed new product ideas into finished products based on market feedback and market opportunities as indicated by sales and marketing teams, providing prototypes for further market research ahead of finalised products being released into the market.
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Re-engineering existing products to improve functionality, reliability, increase cross-product uniformity and improve manufacturing efficiency. - Conceptualised and developed ideas to improve products based off customer feedback and implemented those changes into existing products to expand sales opportunities by increasing capability of current products and improve cross-product uniformity thereby reducing total unique parts required across product lines.
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Develop electro-mechanical systems to improve in-house manufacturing processes. - Designed and deployed testing systems to improve reliability and quality assurance of cabling looms and other electromechanical components assembled by in-house production staff.
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Coordinate plastic part production with external manufacturers. - Coordinated the production of injection moulded parts with external manufacturers to ensure quality and part compatibility ahead of product launch. Maintained relationship with this vendor throughout initial development and launch until the production team was able to accept handover of the product and associated manufacturing details.
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Improve mechanical development processes to improve information retention, version control and overall development process flow. - Adjusted processes to enable clear documentation of process, improve accuracy and flow of information and to provide traceability of developments and approvals as well as provide version control and roll back capabilities for part and drawing developments throughout the mechanical development team.
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Liaise with electronics and software engineers to assist with integration of multi-disciplinary products. - Worked closely with multi-disciplinary engineers to assist with integration of software, electronics and mechanical systems including their testing and the deployment of the assembly process to the production team.