Send us Fan Mail Rob Donley has a deep understanding of how engineering works. Kicking off his engineering career from a young age building RC cars and model rockets, he has provided design and leadership capabilities for many companies over the years, and brings to the table not just the ability to design something, but to understand the many facets that accompany development of a new product such as manufacturing, supply chain, financial strategy, and project management. Pipeline Design & ...
Aug 14, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us Fan Mail After deciding a career in welding might lead to an “early retirement”, Justin turned in his welding torch for a polo shirt and a degree in mechanical design. He worked for several years developing machinery and automation in the semiconductor industry before switching to a different industry entirely where he designed and then led a company developing high end iron doors for residences and commercial buildings. These days, he spends his time as the general manager at Interlink ...
Aug 14, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us Fan Mail Reade learned early on in his career how to communicate with engineers (hint: use numbers). This skill has allowed him to earn the respect of engineering teams owing to his ability to communicate in a way that allows engineering teams to fully understand and appreciate the value his human factors team brings to the table. He has also helped develop and foster an incredible work environment at Priority Designs (check out their website – it’s an impressive firm) where a flat organ...
Aug 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us Fan Mail Seth started his career as an electrical engineer with Honeywell developing auxiliary power units (APUs) to control jet engines. As FAA regulations began requiring more and more “busywork” documentation he joined a small motion control & automation supplier called In Position Technologies (IP Tech) as a sales engineer. Seth has grown with IP Tech and is now a sales manager there helping engineering teams solve automation problems across the United States. Pipeline Design &am...
Jul 31, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us Fan Mail Mark comes from a background in design and engineering, and so has been able to bring a lot to the table in his current role as a product portfolio manager at Dassault Systems . Join our discussion surrounding cloud computing, AI and machine learning, and additive manufacturing features you didn’t even know existed in SolidWorks. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fi...
Jul 28, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Send us Fan Mail Andrew grew up in Bend, Oregon enjoying the incredible outdoor environment (skiing, rock climbing, hiking, etc) so it’s no surprise that one of his first jobs as a mechanical engineer was climbing ski lift towers to fix sensors and combat ice with his mighty hammer. From there he moved into an engineering role designing drilling systems for oil and gas, and finally into his current role as a product development engineer reprocessing medical devices. Pipeline Design & Enginee...
Jul 24, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Send us Fan Mail Ronan’s drive to work as an engineer at medical device companies gave him the courage to move from a small fishing town in Ireland where he grew up to silicone valley. Within a surprisingly short amount of time he was designing new products at Phoenix Deventures and building a fantastic network of engineering (and engineering-adjacent) professionals. Now working as a senior verification engineer he continues loving every aspect of the engineer life and shares with us insight ran...
Jul 24, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Send us Fan Mail With over 24 very sincere recommendations on his LinkedIn page, it is clear that Rob’s teams over the years have loved working with him. Join our conversation as we explore how he has developed these loyal teams, as well as how he has helped hardware and software engineers work together to develop new products. Rob’s current role is VP of Product Development at Cubex, LLC . Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipmen...
Jul 17, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Send us Fan Mail Margaret shares her rich history as an engineer in the automotive and medical device industries, including best practices for root cause failure analyses, what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated engineering industry, and how she helped “Weird Al” Yankovic get over stage fright early in his career. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation ...
Jul 17, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Send us Fan Mail Karl started his career as a field service technician and, thanks to his budding skill within the controls realm, quickly transferred into the role of controls engineer. For the past 20 years Karl has honed his skill and is now Director of Engineering at Machine Solutions where he leads an entire group of controls engineers. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixture...
Jul 03, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Send us Fan Mail Trey’s varied experiences within the product development and engineering industry have not only helped him become a gifted engineer, but also a charismatic manager (currently at Edwards Lifesciences ). Join our conversation as we discuss topics ranging from technical descriptions of manufacturing equipment through the soft skills of managing people. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test mach...
Jul 03, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Send us Fan Mail Like all great engineers, David started with Legos. That quickly grew into a fascination not just with mechanical building but with automation and software, which led him into the field of electrical engineering. David now operates as COO at NanoView Biosciences , which he co-founded, helping research and Academic institutions detect and characterize exosome nanoparticles & other extracellular vesicles. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineeri...
Jul 03, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Send us Fan Mail Jesseca exudes love for the engineering craft. Her sincere passion for what she does is so evident as she shares her experiences working in automation, understanding customer needs, and creating highly detailed and precise documentation. When most of us engineers would just as soon throw the documentation side of development “over the wall”, Jesseca thrives producing drawings, user guides, & other engineering related communication. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners ...
Jun 26, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Send us Fan Mail When Robert’s professors during school had him and his classmates use simplified assumptions to teach engineering problem solving his response was always “but what if these assumptions aren’t true?” Robert Whirley has always wanted (and successfully done) to solve the hard problems. Join us as we hear about his experience working as an engineer in multiple industries and starting product development companies of his own. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical de...
Jun 26, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Send us Fan Mail Russ Aldridge and cofounder Marc Christenson started Sisu in 2010 as an integrator for their former employer NI (National Instruments). They have expanded the company far beyond just NI and now serve a wide variety of industries developing highly sophisticated robotic & automated applications. Their team’s skill and ingenuity is matched by their incredible dedication to serve the customer – case in point: team Sisu went from concept to 100 fully functioning ventilators in ju...
Jun 19, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Send us Fan Mail Robert grew up building Legos, toy rockets, fixing vehicles, and developing video games…it seemed inevitable that he would become an engineer. As CTO at Delta Development Team , he continues developing his engineering skills going through the MS program for systems engineering at the University of Arizona while running their startup thermal systems/medical device company at the same time. Hear about the pressures & thrills of developing revolutionary life-saving technology (...
Jun 19, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Send us Fan Mail Devon Campbell is the founder and Managing Director of Prodct LLC . Prodct is a Boston-based, boutique advisory firm focused on helping emerging entrepreneurs and early-stage biotech, medical device, diagnostic, and therapeutic companies create and execute expedited product development, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and commercialization strategies. Before Prodct, Devon led product development and engineering at several successful medical device and diagnostic companies ov...
Jun 09, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Send us Fan Mail Early in his career Jon was spending too much time updating the team’s Excel spreadsheet which they used to track quality and regulatory-related progress during device development phases. One day he thought to himself “there has to be a better way”, and thus Greenlight Guru was born which simplifies the quality management process for medical device manufacturers. Hear about Jon’s journey from chemical engineer to honorary mechanical engineer to founder of Greenlight Guru . Also ...
Jun 05, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Send us Fan Mail From welding together home-grown farm tools to sophisticated statistics for assessing risk management, hear how Tommy Davis has progressed his career as an engineer. Also, learn first hand about the benefits of being a PE (Professional Engineer) and certified six sigma black belt! Connect with Tommy through West Pharmaceutical . Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fix...
Jun 03, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Send us Fan Mail What’s it like working in a small engineering startup vs a large established corporation? How do you motivate your engineering team? What are the most important skillsets for engineers to have? Join us as we learn from Pat’s 25+ years as an engineer and engineering manager/director/VP in the product development space. Pat’s currently works as VP of R&D at Shockwave Medical . Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equ...
May 29, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Send us Fan Mail From engineering roles at iRobot to Sensata to Thermo Fisher Alex shares with us the top skills that product designers need, the importance of understanding your “why”, and his mission to eliminate quality departments (okay, that’s not really what he meant on the last one). Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwi...
May 26, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Send us Fan Mail In 2009 Aaron was laid off from his job as a mechanical engineer designing medical devices. Instead of finding another job he started Pipeline Design & Engineering, figured out how to develop a team, and began supporting the medical device industry with custom equipment. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandw...
May 20, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Send us Fan Mail Hear tips on leadership, management, and motivation from Chris Bridgewater, CEO of Delta Development Team , as well as insights from his journey as a carpenter in the Army through his non-traditional education path that led to the formation of his company. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwidth or resources i...
May 14, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Send us Fan Mail Tom ( Galvani Legal ) teaches us how to maximize the likelihood that our designs will be patented, explains the “first to file” principle, and shares insight into what to expect when applying for a new patent. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwidth or resources internally to develop that equipment. You can fi...
May 13, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Send us Fan Mail Rafael Testai graduated with an honors degree in Molecular Biology, Genetics. After graduation, he sold three companies, and ultimately realized that his true calling was mechanical engineering. In this episode, Rafael shares advice on how he successfully switched careers and now has two years of experience as a mechanical designer. You can find Rafael on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/testai/ . Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering...
May 11, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Send us Fan Mail What is human factors engineering and how does it augment product development? Bryant, VP of Human Factors at Research Collective , walks us through this data-driven world. Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwidth or resources internally to develop that equipment. You can find us on the web at www.testfixturede...
May 06, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us Fan Mail David transitioned his career as a computer scientist professor into an industry research position that ultimately led to a CTO role at Forced Physics . Their heat exchanger product now has the potential to revolutionize any application needing cooling (currently focused on data center computers). Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment b...
May 01, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us Fan Mail An inside scoop on how a serial entrepreneur engineer built three startups around the medical device industry. Also, Arizona State University coeds. You can learn more about Poba Medical , Machine Solutions , and Symple Surgical on their websites Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwidth or resources internally ...
Apr 29, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us Fan Mail How to Support the Being An Engineer Podcast Subscribe to the show to get notified so you don't miss new episodes every Friday. The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment like cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us at www.teampipeline.us Watch the show on Yo...
Apr 24, 2020•4 min
Send us Fan Mail With a hugely varied and diverse professional background, Michael shares with us his adventures from being a student at a prestigious engineering college, to filling the role of business manager for Tony Robbins, to being engineering manager at Pipeline Design & Engineering . Subscribe to the show to get notified so you don't miss new episodes every Friday. The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical &a...
Apr 20, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1
