After 23 years in the medical devices industry, working for international companies, I have decided in 2018 to work as a freelancer/consultant in the human factors engineering and sustaining fields.
While Usability and Sustaining have always been my core focuses, I have had the opportunity to develop during my biomedical engineer career a deep and broad skills set that I want to give my customers the benefit of:- User interfaces definition and evaluation
- Sustaining: vigilance cases failure investigation and correction
- Upstream and downstream marketing, Product development, Applied technology, Management, Project management, Design control, System engineering, Risk management, Clinical evaluation, member of ISO/TC121/SC3 standards writing, working accross the globe...
- Co-author of the upcoming French medical industry union (SNITEM) guidance on Usability engineering for medical devices
- Close cooperation with users to detect needs and wants
- From Life support devices (critical care, emergency, anesthesia, homecare respiratory care) to more simple devices such as sleep apnea therapy orthesis.
Why outsourcing those activities?
Human factors engineering:
- Companies running large-scale human factor projects very often lack complementary resources to overcome peak workloads; only a consultant brings the needed flexibility to that problem
- For some other companies, there is not necessarily the need or the means to have full-time usability specialist(s) internal resource; once more a consultant is the ideal solution
Sustaining engineering:
- Sustaining resource needs are inherently changing and difficult to predict; in the absence of dedicated resources, the sustaining needs systematically disrupt the activities of the product development design teams; outsourcing the sustaining activities helps not disturbing the new product development projects
- An outside expert, accostumed to complex investigations, involving patients and users, is most often an opportunity to identify new possible or actual root causes
Why working with me?
- A rich and specialized expertise: 23 years in biomedical engineering working for international companies, in multiple positions, focused on acheiving satisfaction of user needs
- Sense of customer relationship: proximity, listening, commitment, and customer satisfaction are my purposes
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Special offer
- First time client: don't hesitate to test my services for a one day trial at special "Discover rate"