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Tim Coonahan: Not team building, building a team

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#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.

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