INTRODUCTION
Hannah Lewbel is an experienced consultant with over 15 years in product design and engineering, developing high-quality, industry-leading consumer electronics. She has designed and shipped millions of devices, leading product development and teams from concept through high-volume manufacturing and production. Hannah provides consulting services to industry leaders, technical organizations, small-to-medium-sized businesses growing their technology portfolios, and non-profit organizations on how they can improve product design and processes, improve efficiency, innovate and integrate this innovation, and strengthen their teams through better staffing decisions. In addition to product and team-focused consulting, Hannah provides select organizations higher-levels of organization support as a Board member and Technical Advisor.
Consulting
EARLY-STAGE TECH DEVELOPMENT
Early Stage: Assess technical opportunities for new business ventures at the early concept design stage. Evaluate tech and business requirements and project organization impact.
Mid-Level: Assess both business and technical functions within existing organizations, and provide recommendations for growing and scaling the organization through better process development, talent acquisition and retention, innovation practices, and product development.
Tech Integration for Small Businesses: Evaluation of existing processes and systems to determine an organization's loss in time and financial impact within the organization. Roadmap and process planning for better technology and systems integration.
Tech Eval for Social Impact: Similar to "Tech Integration for Small Businesses" this consulting work focuses on existing and new tech development but addresses the specific needs of Social Impact organizations and non-profits. Evaluation includes analysis of financial sources, a distributed and often global workforce, and technical development with less-traditional product development processes, staffing, and environmental conditions.
Product Design
Design Tech: New technology evaluation. Development and integration of system sub-components. New product development and iterative product development (n to n+1). Product development process design. Cost and feature analysis and market placement.
Product Life Cycle: Technical and business review of existing design and test procedures. Launch end-to-end process: customer launch, sustaining, field units, metrics.
Tech Design for Social Impact: Evaluation of new or existing tech solutions with Social Impact assessment. Iterative and innovative design focused on less-traditional product development processes, staffing, and environmental conditions.
Innovation
Best Practices: Guidance on how to create and structure innovation seamlessly within an organization. Effective innovation processes. Lessons learned.
Patent IP Design: Evaluation of existing Intellectual Property (technical and processes) with understanding of an organization's goals. Investigate new ways to leverage and capture IP within the design processes.
Hire & Develop
Team Building: Technical and behavioral interview training for internal staff, recruiting and multi-level hiring, building high-functioning collaborative product teams, strengthening internal leadership.
Sourcing Talent: Referrals and direct contact to top-quality technical consultants or employees for hire.
Advising
Hannah Lewbel is a senior engineering leader and an advisor who provides both business and technical advice for growing organizations on hiring, team development, product design, and launch processes. She is also engaged as an Industry Advisory Board member at the university level for both technical departments and women's engineering programs.
If you're interested in having Hannah as an advisor for your organization, please use our Contact page for inquiries.
