Product Design Portfolio

Prior to founding Integrative Product Design LLC, I had the immense privilege to work alongside world class designers and engineers at LUNAR Design, a globally-renowned product design firm. I held engineering, design, and program management leadership roles where I contributed to dozens of first-to-world products across diverse consumer and medical sectors. The portfolio below represents programs where I had either a program leadership role or a primary contributor role.

Management Consulting Portfolio

After LUNAR was acquired by McKinsey & Company, I led and managed three types of engagements - acceleration, optimization, and innovation. In these complex high-stakes programs, I drove workstreams that supported larger strategic teams as a content director, a design engineer, and a program management process expert. In all instances, the work fundamentally required an understanding of how strategic business imperatives inform and are informed by design and engineering initiatives.

Commercial Acceleration

Industrial - Chemical handling

  • Drove IoT growth transformation in ready-mix concrete resulting in 80% 3Y revenue growth

  • Turnkey development from early product definition through sourcing and manufacturing first articles of electro-fluidic material delivery system for truck fleets

Consumer - Water Testing

  • Managed all technical development of an electromechanical water testing device, achieving a 40% reduction in time to market.

  • Oversaw the concept, prototype, detailed engineering, and high volume manufacturing, including conducting sustainability life cycle analysis

Industrial - Energy Storage

  • Accelerated commercialization of next-gen utility-scale battery resulting in 2x faster time to market at the 75% lower cost target

  • Modeled cost targets, re-defined system architecture to realize cost savings, improved project management processes.

Medical - COVID Detection

  • Led a high-stakes "proof-of-concept to product" program for a Covid-19 detection device

  • Coached and guided multidisciplinary teams responsible for engineering design and manufacturing transition for this mission-critical product

Product Optimization

Cleantech - Solar Racking

  • Built “how to win” guidance for growth strategy in residential solar resulting in 18% cost savings and 15% less install time.

  • Focused on installer and product insights to drive best-in-class performance, portfolio streamlining, and sourcing excellence

Consumer - Private Label Food

  • Led packaging optimization in private label food resulting in 20% less store stocking labor & $2M savings in shipping costs.

  • Leveraged consumer insights, product testing, and FEA to redesign packaging with smaller material and emissions footprint

Telecom - Fiber Optics

  • Led brand experience & design transformation across portfolio of fiber optic hardware to disrupt the category

  • Improved brand recognition and customer experience, e.g. 70% reduction in product size with similar installation & serviceability experience

Consumer - Specialty Beverage

  • Created Design Experience Metrics tool to better quantify usability/cost trade-offs - product got 5 stars on Amazon.

  • Benchmarking tool assesses attributes against cost levers to enable teams to decide best approach

Consumer - Toys

  • Led sustainable product packaging in computer accessories and toys resulting in ~70% shipping savings and CO2 emissions equivalent.

  • Baselined competitive set through teardowns and ideated packaging improvements focused on cost levers

Consumer - Beverage

  • Drove renovation of iconic juice company portfolio resulting in ideas valued at $300M

  • Leveraged rapid consumer quant and qual insights to determine lower-cost bottle redesign would also improve brand equity and positively differentiate on store-shelf

Product Innovation

Consumer - Water @ Home

  • Accelerated portfolio innovation in home hydration resulting in growth roadmap

  • Ran multi-disciplinary innovation program with product managers, researchers, engineers, designers, and procurement to identify growth-enabling solutions; built new innovation process capabilities

  • Key client leader quote “...what we did in 8 weeks would've taken us 12-18 months”–

Consumer - Home Cleaning

  • Managed whitespace product innovation in home cleaning resulting in 3 product launches in 1 year

  • Identified and designed kitchen counter-worthy products for power tool company looking to move and belong to a new store aisle of a $3B cleaning market

Consumer - Food

  • Led portfolio strategy & brand turnaround for 3 iconic CPG brands in 3 weeks

  • Activities included category sizing, consumer & competitor trend analysis, rapid sentiment analysis using digital tools, and photorealistic concept ideation leveraging Generative AI

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