Fictiv

Designing Manufacturing Systems that Scale

The Challenge:

When my previous company Otto shut down before we shipped our first product, I experienced first hand the saying that hardware is hard. I joined Fictiv to make the hardware development process easier. Fictiv is building a platform both to help design components and to get them produced at scale.

The company that started with 40 people when I joined in 2018, now has 200 people working in 3 countries in 2021. We experience all the challenges that come with scaling so quickly.



The Result:

By mapping business processes to their corresponding data flows and performing data analysis, I have been able to help:

  • Increase conversion on overseas orders by 10%
  • Reduce the time to request a customer quote by 75%
  • Scale the daily output of the Quality Control team by 2X
  • Allow the overseas fulfillment team to handle 3X the number of orders without increasing headcount by streamlining internal communication

Lead a cross-functional business team to identify and prioritize software roadmap initiatives.

Build and manage systems using no-code automation platforms that handled 70% of Fictiv’s core business.

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Date:
2018-Current
Roles:
Technical Program Management, Business Operations and Strategy
Scope of Work:

Business Operations

  • Business Process Mapping
  • Data Analysis
  • New Product Introduction
  • Agile Software Development
  • No/Low Code Solution Development

Technical Program Management

  • Negotiating SOW/MSA
  • Vendor selection and management
  • Failure analysis
  • Project management

Tools

  • Sigma Computing
  • PostgresSQL
  • Salesforce
  • Odoo Open ERP
  • Airtable
  • Google Sheets
  • Zapier
  • Asana
  • Atlassian (Jira/Confluence)
  • Figma
  • Lucidchart

Other work:
Transpose | A-cubed by Airbus

Reimagining Commercial Air Travel With People at the Center

Otto

From Prototype to Production: Manufacturing the World's Smallest Digital Door Lock