BRESSLERGROUP
Bresslergroup is an insight-driven product innovation lab. Our strategists, researchers, designers, and engineers are trusted by forward-thinking leaders to solve inspiring design challenges in a constantly evolving product landscape. We drive innovation that fuels growth in categories ranging from consumer products, including IoT, to medical devices. We partner with U.S. and international clients who range from startups to global brands and leading technology companies.
At Bresslergroup, I am trusted to guild clients through their development process and provide mechanical engineering expertise. This comes in the form of design for manufacturing and assembly for varied materials and processes. 2D and 3D CAD generation, build and test of prototypes, computational simulation, and empirical design of experiments. At BG, I tend to find myself often on projects that require front end, generative design with ambiguous needs and requirements.
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As BG’s primary engineer in support of Harry’s for over 2.5 years, I managed various parallel efforts and engineers to enable Harry’s goals. I conducted tasks including concept generation, design for manufacturing and assembly for extremely high volume (>1M/year, 120 ppm) while considering demanding cosmetic constraints, generation of 2D & 3D CAD, statistical tolerance stack analysis, design and execution of validation testing, competitor analysis, and fixture design. Photo credit to Harry's
For Motivate, I generated concepts and functional electromechanical prototypes for a next generation locking and docking system while considering rigorous environmental, theft, and abuse requirements. At the completion of Bresslergroup’s involvement, Motivate was acquired by Lyft. Photo credit to MotivateCo.
In addition to S.A. Wyze, I have had the opportunity to work on numerous wearable devices at BG including an in-ear-canal noise dosimeter, a forehead based optical probe for medical applications, and other wearable devices. Specifically, S.A. Wyze is a device used to monitor the human stress response by integrating multiple biological indicators. Across all projects, strong attention was paid to human factors, ergonomics, biocompatibility, and form design. Photo credit to S.A. Wyze
Among others, one key medical device client of Bresslergroup is Becton Dickinson. While at BG, I have had the opportunity to work on numerous medical products, ranging from creating system architecture for large scale diagnostics devices to designing high volume consumables such as syringes and safety needles. I have also been an integral part of a surgical implant effort that spanned the engineering and user research teams. Photo credit to Becton Dickinson
An internal effort I led at Bresslergroup is building our capabilities in the design of microfluidic cartridge and diagnostics. Microfluidics lies at the intersection of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, and chemistry. I defined a development process that allowed for scaling of products from proof of concept to alpha and beta phases. Additionally, I identified manufacturing methods and vendors appropriate for each phase. Photo credit to microfluidic ChipShop
I have the special opportunity to mentor students in Thomas Jefferson University’s JeffSolves program. A unique program where 1st year medical students team up with industrial design students to solve real medical challenges. BG is responsible for generating workshop material including user research, need finding, concept generation, prototyping, and business model generation. Additionally, I was able to guide students through the product development process through twice weekly mentorship.