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.