How We Can Help

VPD offers a range of capabilities providing providing actionable deliverables for your company. With Ryan’s background in mechanical engineering and manufacturing combined with a dedicated resource for electrical engineering, we fluidly move through the range of hardware development processes.

  • Founder Coaching - Supporting Founders

  • Employee Mentoring - Engineering and Operations

  • Product - Roadmaps, Product Requirement Documents

  • Investor diligence - Fundraising, M&A

  • Development RFQs

  • Manufacturing RFQs

  • Process Development

Strategic Planning

Execution

  • Team Leadership - Program Management

  • TPM Documentation - Gantt chart schedules, Bills of Material (BOMs)

  • Hiring - Org charts, Job Descriptions, Recruiting, Interviews, Onboarding

  • Relationship Building - Key Manufacturers, Vendors, Investors

  • Development Facilitation - ME, EE, ID, MFG, SW

Our sweet spot is efficiently and effectively managing your product development as early on as possible to unlock the path to your next milestone. If it’s not the right time to work together, we can put steps into place that ensures a sound plan until it is.

When We Can Help

Transition In

  • Product definition

  • Early concept exploration

  • Quick prototyping

VPD

  • Interdisciplinary development

  • Scaling product & team

  • Establishing processes

Transition Out

  • Manufacturing optimization

  • Cost-downs

  • Stable production