Experienced team leader seeking to leverage expertise in Medical Innovation to implement new ideas that improve the lives of more people.
The insights that fuel innovation come from spending thousands of hours in hospitals and homes across the world with stakeholders in healthcare to uncover and create solutions that address unmet needs, motivations and challenges.
Doctors
Families
Administrators
Patients
Nurses
Payers
Technicians
Reps
Researchers
Manufacturers
Operatories
Offices
Cath Labs
Recovery
Nursing Stations
Healthcare Innovation
Emergency Depts
ASCs
Homes
Clinics
Ambulances
During over 25 years leading one of the top Medical Innovation consultancies in the US my teams and I have successfully used new methods in design research and product development to generate new frameworks and create digital and physical tools for forward-thinking organizations seeking to improve healthcare.
Problems = Opportunities
How can we integrate new tools, processes, protocols without burden?
When do we need to overcome patient barriers like stigma, and access?
What tools can help teams communicate, handoff, and make decisions?
Do we understand which problems and opportunities are most important?
Can we balance the (sometimes contradictory) needs of all the stakeholders?
Technologies
Neuromodulation
Non-Invasive Ventilation
Digital Signal Processing for Hearing
Catheter-based Delivery of Implants and Therapies
Body Worn Wireless Sensors
Design Doing
RESEARCH
Delivering great experiences in healthcare requires true understanding of complex systems.
Global research for industry leaders like ZOLL, Baxter, and Kohler required creating unique tools, processes and deliverables that capture the
People
Workflows
Tools
Challenges
Pain points and
Unmet needs
that are the foundation of new products and services that help real people
INNOVATION
Healthcare has an inexhaustible supply of problems to solve and an amazing group of dedicated people willing to try.
Creative techniques generate ideas even within tight constraints, creative thinking helps create frameworks to help make sense of what to do, and creative problem solvers generate new ideas to test.
DESIGN + ENGINEERING
This is where Design THINKING becomes Design DOING.
It is a special team that can create amazing user experiences while balancing the realities of engineering complexity, cost, schedule, regulations, and human behavior.
It is impossible to do without teamwork.
DIGITAL TOOLS
The definition of a “product” keeps expanding, and experiences with tools and services must be equally compelling when physical and digital elements work together. Hybrid Design + UXUI teams assume that interacting with data and technology can be a delight for anyone regardless of their education or ability.
About
Roles
COLLABORATION and TEAM BUILDING
Synthesizing and capturing research insights
Contributing creative content
Providing creative direction for teams
Developing and integrating methodologies across disciplines
Working with cross - functional leads to maximize quality
Facilitating workshops
Exploring new presentation techniques
Developing systems and standards
Defining position descriptions, Interviewing and recruiting
Hiring, performance reviews and disciplinary actions
training internal team members
sourcing external resources
Maintaining and updating workspaces and tools
INNOVATION PROJECT DIRECTION
Planning, writing and estimating formal work plans / SOWs
Presenting project work and final outputs
Acting as primary point of contact
Publishing periodic progress reports to program sponsors and clients
Managing concurrent workflows
Resourcing and tracking hours and expenses against budgets
Generating and publishing project schedules
Allocating billable and non-billable hours
Education
Art Center College of Design
Bachelor of Science with Honors in Product Design
1993 - 1996
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design
1988 - 1992
Design Management Institute “Managing Creative Staff” Seminar
GoEngineer “Solidworks Essentials” training
UCLA Extension “Transitioning from Technical to Managerial Responsibilities”, “Medical Device Safety and Product Liability Prevention
DISC team interaction profiling seminar
OUTREACH and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
PR via public speaking, writing articles and posts, interviews, juries
Presenting K:D work to public
Attending industry conferences and events
Developing relationships with strategic partners
STRATEGY
Conducting market opportunity audits
Strategic planning
Goal-setting for teams
Creating tools and templates to improve efficiency and information sharing
Lecturing
USC Viterbi dept of Biomedical Engineering
UCLA Samueli dept of Bioengineering
CSULB dept of design
DaVinci Design High School
Turning Point School
