#28 – Tim Coonahan: Not team building, building a team
Tim is Director, Design and Development at Medica Corporation

Drinking engineering appropriately named beer – “Ripping Through Dimensions” and “Memory Bias”.
An anti-phonetic (not semaphore) alphabet “A” as in are, “y” as in you, “E” as in eye.
Went to RPI – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, oldest non-military technical school in the US.
Started as biomedical, ended as mechanical
Learn as much as you possibly can
From a family of engineers – steel and railroads
Organic chemistry as an elective?
Is vertical integration coming back?
A Machine Design cover story got him into product development consulting.

Got him back into biomedical engineering


Happy to be middle-management, closer to engineering.
You’re either learning or earning
Be open to new ideas.
“Your work is done not when there is nothing more to add, it’s done when there’s nothing more to take away.”
Electric cars have many fewer parts.
First used sla in 1988.
We were with each other on 9/11. Our memories are a little different.
Tim collects old Porsches and has 44-year-old boots.

Bert’s Company – www.dexterityeng.com

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