Kalen Wolfe

As Clutterbot moved from focusing on R&D to production, I moved into the role of COO to support company wide timeline management and business planning to ensure we could meet company milestone and launch our product.

• Streamlined company processes and procedures while ensuring we are enhancing customer value.
• Set up Jira across company to align 12 teams with common OKRs and Workflows
• Hired Program managers to maintain and support company best management practices

As the company grew I spent time across both mechanical design and product management to ensure our product was being designed with customer-centric principles and enforced lean startup ideas to get prototypes quickly into real customers homes to better understand customer expectation and prove prototype value. I led both the mechanical design team and product team until growing to a point where we hired/promoted new leaders to take on these responsibilities.

• Built a product team with a single industrial designer to a product management function with 3 product managers working across, hardware, software and mobile portfolios
• Acting team lead for mechanical and product teams for over 1 year, until promoting other into the roles
• Involved in over 50 customer interviews to ensure the robot was meeting the customer needs
• Helped develop customer personas and determine the ideal target market
• Set up customer testing program that now has our product working with customers almost everyday
• Set product vision for the company
• Established and worked alongside leadership team to develop business strategy
• Supported growing company from 10 to 80 employees world wide
• Traveled between India, New Zealand and Canada
• Involved in capital raises
• Fulfilled duties as a director of the company

Second employee to be hired for a new startup trying to solve a complex problem for parents. Primary responsibility was to develop innovative prototypes to pick up objects around customers homes. Really did everything to support an early stage startup from, building prototypes, finding office space, hiring employees, leading brainstorming event, working with CEO around company and product vision.

• Empathized with customer and used feedback to lead design principles
• Helped grow team from 2 to around 10 employees
• Designed full robotic assemblies in solid works
• Used rapid prototyping tools like 3D printing and OEM parts to validate mechanism quickly
• Critical member in developing the key robotic principles still used in Clutterbots product today
• Mentored Junior engineers and helped lead brainstorming events
• Key driver to getting Clutterbot into a incubator program

• Developed design for manufacturing (DFM) reports for product production.
• Ensured production of over $600,000 of new products were completed on time and accurately.
• Diagnosed, repaired and troubleshoot mechatronic systems.
• Conducted studies including labor time studies, testing failure rates and first pass inspections on all new products.
• Designed and personally built over 15 custom jigs and testing equipment.
• Liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
• Multitasking skills developed though working on up to 20 different projects a day.

• 3D design and drafting using SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software
• Created detailed engineering drawings for vendor manufacturing
• Led equipment fatigue/stress tests on oil rig equipment including top drives and belts
• Responsible for creating and completing stress and design calculations for the arrangement of multiple pulleys and wire combinations
• Contact for several manufacturers regarding part drawings, dimensions, MPI welds and other specifics
• Contacted vendors to ensure company or product requirements were met or exceeded
• Weekly standup meeting with the R&D team regarding new ideas, progress, problems, mechanical failures and general developments to increase problem solving efficiencies
• Managed, trained, and supported 2 new engineering interns over 4 months.