Aaron Pitzer

· Work with clients on design strategy, user experience (UX), and industrial design.
· Coach process to identify new product ideas and develop concepts beyond the initial idea through whiteboarding, hand drawing, digital sketching, prototyping and presentations.
· Medical Device: Phase 1: Case redesign for a tunable medical device; Phase 2: designed an adapter and clamp to hold the device in a fixed location.
· Marketing project: built to-scale topographical model of land holdings, facilities and future project scope from maps for a non-profit youth development camp. Used in a successful fundraising and vision casting campaign.

(company closed) Reported to the President / Engineering Manager (electrical engineer) in development of a product vision and user experience (UX) for new and redesigned medical devices within an ISO 13485 environment.
* Owned all aspects of the design and iteration process from research to ideation, mockups, 3D modeling, presentations, and development of engineering drawings and models for production.
* Managed 3 - 5 long-term projects at varying stages of ideation / production at any given time. Able to flex and pivot based on shifting priorities. Collaborated with the engineering team to keep a customer centric design while maintaining simplicity and cost.
* Pro-actively addressed critical project elements to prevent delays or project redesigns. Found innovative solutions to seemingly conflicting requirements by resolving assumptions and requirements with user needs.
* Collaborated with internal stakeholders in mechanical engineering, machining, quality control and accounting to create solutions based on design best practices.
* Advocate for end user: worked with regulatory and electrical engineer to reduce complexity of standby mode button on a new camera system to use existing design with improved layout of signifiers
* Design improvement: lead designer in collaboration with the president to refresh/redesign a legacy camera system. Changed the light source, replaced the camera sensor (allowed in-house design of software and hardware). End-product was significantly smaller, portable and had capability for integrated video screen.
* Rapid prototyping: single day turn around, using only materials on hand, from idea pitch in the AM to design and prototyping a rough concept model to delivery to the in-house 3D printer to construction and testing of the prototype by end of day. (ChoanaCath)

Lead designer for concept design through mass production. Included creation of production documentation for the factory and approving samples for production.
* Delivered product specification drawings that ensured a complete, detailed and accurate sample build.
* Smartswitch - developed case design, and physical functionality of a safety product designed to listen for a smoke alarm and shut off power to appliances plugged into the Smartswitch. Worked closely with the client, provided prototypes, consulted on aesthetics and wrote production documents for the factory.