Experience:
Over 30 years of research and product development in a variety of industries ranging from marine transportation to medical devices.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Product Design from The Ohio State University’s Industrial Design program, with an emphasis on human factors and design research.
Focus:
Management of user research and synthesis phases of product development, including:
• Usability studies
• User-centric innovation techniques
• Establishing optimal user requirements for product definitionUsability studies:
User-centric innovation techniques
Establishing optimal user requirements for product definitionResearcher:
Primary investigator and analyst in international contextual inquiry and user evaluations research projects for institutional and home environments.
Lecturer:
Speaker at universities (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, University of South Florida, University of Minnesota) and conferences (MD&M, IDSA, DMD, Q1,).
Member:
The Human Factors Engineering (HE) committee for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI); the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES); Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
• Published articles in several publications (e.g., Medical Device and Medical Device & Diagnostics Industry)
• Editor and reviewer of the ANSI/AAMI HE75:2009 usability guidance standard, Contributing author and editor for the 2nd edition of HE75
• Contributor to AAMI revision of IEC/ISO 62366-1 Addendum
• Contributing author to AAMI Technical Report on Post Market Surveillance of Use Error: TIR50 and Integrating Human Factors into Design Controls: AAMI TIR59Advisor:
• Industry advisory board, Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cincinnati;
• Curriculum steering committee for the industrial design program at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
• Curriculum steering advisor for the M.S. in Population Health and Design course of modules at New York Institute of Technology.Judge:
The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA); the Medical Device Excellence Awards (MDEA); International Plastics Design Competition.
Chairperson:
Medical Section Chair of the IDSA 2001-2019. Board of Directors, Vice President of Special Interest Sections, IDSA, 2017-2019. Founding Chair of the IDSA Medical Design Conference 2016, Medical Design Conference Co-Chair, 2017, 2019. Chair of the IDSA Patient Safety Taskforce.
