Skills and Awards


Skills

Rapid Learning Cycles® consulting and facilitation

Product development best practices – team optimization, predictability improvements

Coaching, teaching and facilitation

Requirements management - user needs and design inputs, system architecture, interface management

Experimental design – Design of Experiments

Innovation methods – TRIZ, morphological analysis, creative techniques

Applied statistics

Design for Manufacturability and Assembly – functional analysis, assembly analysis

Predictive engineering – transfer function development, Monte Carlo simulation, parameter design, tolerance allocation

Test method development – use conditions, attribute and variable data, Gage R&R

Capability analysis – attribute and variable data, non-normal, short and long term, product and process scorecards

Reliability engineering – HALT, ALT, modeling and analysis

Root cause analysis 

Design and technical reviews - preparation and facilitation

Design verification readiness evaluation

Design controls - FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485


Awards

Medtronic Technical Fellow

Rapid Learning Cycles Certified Project Associate®

Medtronic Star of Excellence

Medtronic Predictive Engineering Conference - Business Impact Award - finalist

Medtronic Technical Contributor of the Year Award - team member

Lean Sigma Master Black Belt

Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt

30+ presentations at Medtronic Science & Technology, Modeling and Predictive Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Industrial Statistics conferences

Patents 6,353,501, 6,469,685, and 6,490,091, Woodruff, et al.