Product Strategy & Management
Rick Chin
I am a results oriented, roll-up-my-sleeves person who relishes time spent crafting a great product with a smart and motivated team.
Fractional CPO
2023
Helping teams in their early and strategic product efforts. These include the development of new products, productization of technology, and enhancing existing products so they better resonate with customers.
Makelab, Inc.
2022
CPO
3D Printing service Bureau
Desktop Metal
2015 - 2020
Public
Cofounder, VP Software
Fab Flow
Designed and led offshore development team. Comprehensive cloud solution for prototyping shops. Provided very visual quoting, validation, and job tracking. Strategy for early engagement with 3D printer prospects.
Adaptive Infill
Invented and led development of PoC. Automated approach to creating internal lattice structures which automatically varied in density to optimize strength and weight.
Adaptive Z Compensation
Invented concept. Compensated for vertical compression which occurs in parts due to gravity. Accounted for variation in part geometry from top to bottom of build.
Realtime Tradeoff Analysis
Invented concept. Visual interface which dynamically gave users a qualitative understanding of the pros/cons of their print decisions.
Automatic Support Splitting
Invented and led development. 3D printing requires the printing of extra material called supports structures. This technology allowed their removal from part without the use of industrial machining operations.
Fabricate
Built & led software team. IoT software which provided UI for 3 devices used in metal 3D printing process.
Dassault Systemes
2006 - 2015
Director of Product Innovation
SolidWorks Sustainability
Designed and led development. Enabled engineers to design “greener” products. Designed to be relevant to engineers and simplified the very complex LCA process.
eDrawings AR
Evolved my original AR (Augmented Reality) “Engineer’s Cockpit” concept into using AR as intermediate value-add step between concept design and 3D printing.
Community CAD
Invented concept and led development. Leverage user domain expertise to crowdsource the creation of niche CAD apps (long-tail).
Inter-CAD Assemblies
Invented concept and led development. Enabled assembly of parts from different CAD systems with automatic updating when designs changed.
SolidWorks Personas
Led team in development of user personas. Quantitative & qualitative research, creation, and company adoption.
Feature Chains
Invented concept. Made 3D CAD easier by introducing a more intuitive way to control 3D models.
FeatureXpert
Led team in the integration of Active & Aware Features (patent) into SolidWorks.
Inventor
2004 - 2006
Acquired
Active & Aware Features
Invented concept to make 3D CAD easier to use by enabling feature level autonomy. Acquired by DS SolidWorks.
Xpress3D
2001 - 2004
Acquired
Cofounder, CEO
Xpress3D
Cofounder and launched product. First fully automated online 3D printing company. Acquired by Stratasys.
SolidWorks
1995 - 2001
Acquired
Direc. of eDrawings Product, Product Specialist
First Applications Engineer. Technical person who helped COO build sales channel and CEO on press tour. Created and presented early product demos.
eDrawings
Invented, led development and launched. Most successful lead generation source for over a decade at SolidWorks.
Pro/E Consultant
PTC
Product Manager, Applications Engineer
Pratt & Whitney
Computer Methods Engineer
McDonnell Douglas
Software Engineer
Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Company
Major UI Feature
Patent
Product
Proof of Concept
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