#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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