Tim Coonahan: Not team building, building a team

#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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