I love that what's unique to our team
is that we work on so many different products,
whereas a lot of other design engineers
might just work on
one product line at a time
or one type of product,
so maybe just hips, or just knees,
or just instruments, or just implants.
Whereas my team gets to touch
a variety of different product lines
and types of products,
and I think that's really critical to learning
just what our company offers
in terms of joint replacement.
It's proved useful
because you can speak to
all those different product lines.
You learn just a lot about them.
So, the hardest part I would say
making sure all of our cross-functional partners
are on the same page,
so we do work with many different groups.
You can imagine, regulatory,
manufacturing, operations,
quality, so most of our projects
do touch many different groups
who also have many different priorities,
and that's where really soft skills come into play.
In terms of communicating well,
escalating your project's priority
when you really need it to go through
and meeting your deliverables on time.