Philips Oral Healthcare
2017-present
Philips healthcare is defined by the Sonicare brand, the benchmark of quality in the market. Philips is a global company with extensive resources and expertise in design, marketing, procurement and manufacturing. Working at Philips has exposed me to the rigor of design for mass manufacturing of medical devices and provided a platform to move into a leadership role in product development.
New power toothbrush platform, the next generation of sonicare.
Product development lead for new power toothbrush portfolio
Product requirements definition
Design and support of market analysis and user studies
Early phase concepting and prototyping
Alternative brush project.
Project technical lead of a novel power toothbrush development project
Team includes 7 hardware engineers in collaboration with a partner company and other functional groups
Product development process ownership from requirements and project scoping to detailed design used in clinical studies
Responsible for team management and technical design quality
mentoring of early career engineers
Water flosser product.
Mechanical lead of a water flosser (think waterpik) product from initial project scoping to successful production release
Fluidic system design including piston pump, drivetrain, gearing
High volume product design and manufacturing in a rigorous design and production release process framework
Class I medical device
Involvement with all stages of development from project definition through production support
Worked closely with high volume manufacturing partners globally
