ROCHELLE SCANNELL
Downham Market,Norfolk
Summary
Accomplished Industrial Designer, with a proven record in efficient, high-quality Medical Device design and delivery. Utilising outstanding creativity and technical knowledge to consistently enhance product and process innovation.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Industrial Designer
Tympany Medical (Start-Up)
03.2022 - Current
- Executed summative usability testing and design verification testing in simulated surgery cases and on cadavers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA, as a crucial part of FDA submission for device approval onto the market
- Successfully organized formative usability test sessions, demonstrating initiative by cold-calling surgeons to form user groups, designing testing protocols, and executing protocols
- Applied workshop techniques, including 3D printing, spray-painting, and water-slide decal application, to create high-fidelity interactive prototypes for innovative product features
- Took responsibility for maintenance and fixing of 3D printers, ensuring continuous functionality for prototype development
- Designed testing jigs and test methods to validate that the device met its intended goals for FDA approval
- Presented design concepts to business stakeholders and internal teams, effectively communicating the rationale behind usability decisions
- Developed medium-fidelity (Figma) and high-fidelity (VVVV) interfaces for the computer control unit using Figma software, conducting contextual inquiries with surgeons to refine and evaluate designs
- Rigorously tested and evaluated synthetic alternatives to blood, mucus, and bone for a pre-clinical testing jig, de-risking animal trials and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Followed ergonomic principles to develop user-friendly designs.
- Supervised stress testing to assess product limitations.
- Designed innovative endoscope concept products, collaborating effectively with production departments to ensure feasibility.
- Illustrated design concepts via hand sketches or Affinity Design diagrams.
- Developed harmonious, comprehensive designs encompassing technical, functional and aesthetic considerations.
- Produced original and iterative design concepts for endoscopic computer interface (UX/UI).
Design Engineer
Nelipak Healthcare Packaging
11.2021 - 03.2022
- Developed technical drawings, maintaining an organized design history filing system
- Conducted design workshops with clients, actively iterating and evaluating designs in real-time to ensure alignment with client expectations
- Ensured that designs met the needs of all stakeholders, including clients, operators, and end-users
- Utilized SolidWorks (CAD) to construct virtual models of design concepts, presenting them to clients for evaluation
- Implemented 3D printing and vacuum forming for prototype tool development, refining tools through iterations to achieve well-defined features and secure device placement
- Designed aluminium tools to optimize manufacturability on vacuum-forming machines
- Generated die-card concepts using DraftSight and CNC machines, evaluating product fit within folded-up patterns and making necessary redesigns
- Assessed design usability through testing, ranging from product assembly ease for operators to ease of removing products from packaging for surgeons.
- Applied time management strategies to deliver projects within tight deadlines.
- Summarised findings by compiling accessible technical reports.
- Used 3D CAD software to present concepts for new product lines.
Industrial Designer
Stryker Innovation Centre
Cork, Cork
04.2020 - 08.2020
- Analysed complaints from on-market products for usability-related issues.
- Executed human factors engineering activities within device development including, contextual inquiry, use-related risk analysis, and formative usability assessment.
- Collected and analysed detailed information about how users interact with products through various techniques including physician interviews, simulations, surgery observation, and task analyses.
- Cold-called surgeons to get interviews/surgery visits to get a better understanding of how they used medical devices and translate these to design insights.
- Presented research findings such as insights established from contextual inquiry to the Stryker.
- Utilised ethnographic research to ensure the product was compliant with universal usage.
- Translated user-based research data into viable design solutions via hand sketching and marker rendering.
- Tested sketch models with users to investigate the feasibility of designs, and refined models using workshop machineries such as milling, sanding, and wire cutting to optimise the usability of the models.
- Ensured that concepts were compliant with international standards such as HE75 and IEC 62366.
- Used processes such as 3d printing, sketch modeling, and iterative prototyping to produce a high-fidelity model for the final design concepts.
- Created hyper-realistic models of different design solutions using a combination of CAD, rendering (Keyshot), and Adobe Photoshop.
- Produced a detailed report (thesis) on how the device was researched, developed, and iterated.
Rosstemple Boarding Kennels - Kennels Assistant
04.2016 - 08.2019
Stryker Neurovascular - Product Development Student Internship
05.2017 - 01.2018
Education
Higher National Diploma - UX Design
UX Design Institute
Online 08.2023 - 02.2024
Certificate - SolidWorks Associate
Dassault Systems
Online 11.2021 - 11.2021
Master of Science - Medical Device Design
National College of Art And Design
Dublin, Ireland 09.2019 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland 09.2015 - 05.2019
Skills
- Prototyping
- 2D and 3D modelling
- Affinity Creative Suite (Adobe alternative)
- User Research
- 3D CAD
- Human Factors
- UX/UI Design
- Rendering
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Affiliations
- Surfing
- Gaelic Games
- Bouldering
Timeline
Higher National Diploma - UX Design
UX Design Institute
08.2023 - 02.2024
Industrial Designer
Tympany Medical (Start-Up)
03.2022 - Current
Certificate - SolidWorks Associate
Dassault Systems
11.2021 - 11.2021
Design Engineer
Nelipak Healthcare Packaging
11.2021 - 03.2022
Industrial Designer
Stryker Innovation Centre
04.2020 - 08.2020
Master of Science - Medical Device Design
National College of Art And Design
09.2019 - 08.2020
Stryker Neurovascular - Product Development Student Internship
05.2017 - 01.2018
Rosstemple Boarding Kennels - Kennels Assistant
04.2016 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Biomedical Engineering
University of Limerick
09.2015 - 05.2019
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