Andrew Farnsworth

Industrial design of medical devices, specifically patient handling lifts and slings, medical beds, specialty surfaces, pumps, limb garments

- Ensure corporate visual brand language is expressed in designs early on by exploring various concepts through iterative sketching
- Construct elegant, defined CAD surface models that account for brand value and meet manufacturing requirements
- Generate photorealistic model renderings to help others understand design intent, which drives marketing decisions to speed up product development
- Create innovative and graphically clean illustrations that enhance product usability, eliminate consumer safety risk, and reduce overall project costs
- Develop, build and test physical and digital prototypes through various means, which expedites project requirements, validates ergonomics, and assures feasibility of design concepts
- Leverage team’s collective knowledge/expertise to create wireframe of user interface behavior, which leads to the design of an enhanced user experience while using the product
- Collaborate with key opinion leaders in the medical field to understand emerging market segments and to explore relevant design possibilities within the current corporate product portfolio.

Assist lead designers and management
Conduct project related research and collaborate with team members
Brainstorm product direction, sketch concepts, prepare and analyze data for presentations.
Provide full team support.

Promptly labeled and packaged orders according to size and kept department tidy
Continually met and exceeded workflow expectations

Collaborated with co-workers effectively to increase productivity and work flow
Designed promotional and custom artwork based on customers’ specifications
Utilized CAM software to engrave a wide range of parts on dual axis and rotary engraving machines
Followed detailed instructions to assemble fit bike components and prepared bikes for shipment