Bike

Golf

Fashion

Fishing

Lifestyle

Moto & Powersports

Outdoor

Skate

Snow

Streetwear

Surf

Tech

Triathlon

Health & Fitness

Photography

Design

Action sports

Sketching / drawing

Product Creation Engineer - R&D

I make cool products that are enjoyable for humans to experience and interact with. 

A dedicated product development professional with over 18 years of delivering high performing, innovative products to market. Acting as the voice of the consumer, I work closely with Designers and Engineers to ensure products exceed user’s expectations for comfort and feature performance through data driven decision making, and scientific methods, resulting in new, useful and exciting products. 

I have been successful in seeing projects through from the concept phase through production, managing multiple projects simultaneously and responsible for meeting timelines throughout the development process. The joy of evolving a product to the point where the end user experiences excitement from using the product is what drives me every day. 

Human Factors / Ergonomics
Field testing / Contextual Inquiry
User research
Iterative testing
Prototyping 
Surveys
Project Management
Conceptual design
Sketching / Rendering
CAD –Rhino, Solidworks
Graphic Design / Presentation building 
Reporting and Documentation
Soft good development (helmets)
Knowledge of manufacturing processes - injection molding, die cutting, thermoforming

Vision Performance Lab- Research and Development Test Engineer II
Product development specializing in eyewear, goggle, and helmet fit and functionality.
Manage R&D functions on multiple projects including: prototype iterative testing, human factors, product field testing and validation, new product consumer insight studies.
Accountable for meeting product development timelines through: delivering timely data-driven feedback to development teams including: product, design and engineering, collaborating with cross-functional teams including; marketing, sports marketing, sales and product. 


Functional Integrity Test Technician Level IV
Firmware validation for all pre-production desktop, Branded and Enterprise hard drive programs.
Responsible for managing debugging equipment and implementing software, hardware and process changes to the lab environment. Places me in the position to push changes to help streamline processes and procedures. 
Accountable for supporting the daily activities of up to 30 engineers including: testing, identifying failures, reporting failures to engineers, debugging equipment configuration and updating the testing database.
Responsible for managing the testing phases of new products from staging to sustaining.


Functional Integrity Test Technician III

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William Wilkerson: Product Creation Engineer - R&D in Irvine, CA

William Wilkerson: Product Creation Engineer - R&D in Irvine, CA

William Wilkerson

Oakley, Inc.

Western Digital

California State University

Saddleback College