Problem Solver

Michael Savoie

Michael Savoie
I am quick to understand the basic ideas of technical subjects. My hard work and thirst for knowledge makes up for any lack of specific knowledge. I am often able to utilize ideas from once area to another. Such as the same principle the keep your drink cold on a hot day can also be used to keep a test sample warm over a 24 hour period without electricity

Areas Michael Savoie is Knowledgeable in:

Engineering, patent law, global manufacturing, ski and snow sports design, physiology, renewable energy, robotics

Techniques Michael Savoie Uses:

Flow charts, TRIZ, brainstorming, innovation charts, killer questions

Michael Savoie's Problem Solving Skills:

  1. Business development
  2. Marketing
  3. Robotics
  4. project management
  5. Mechanical Engineering
  6. systems design
  7. logistics
  8. renewable energy
  9. Biomedical engineering
  10. Manufacturing

Michael Savoie's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. Consulted, designed and produced hot-box device, for waxing multiple pairs of skis at the same time. Installed at several ski shops in Colorado.
  2. Redesign power transmission application from power tranmission belt and gear box, to only a power transmission belt costing less than $5. Design failed as we were not able to design anything that worked under $10 at full scale production.
  3. A local engineering school was having problems with recruiting students. As they came from various high schools and there were no feeder schools to the University for Engineering, I suggested that they have the students send thank you letters to their guidance counselors as an introduction for the recruiting staff to then take over and encourage more students from that school to apply.
  4. Implemented use of electroless incubator while taking water samples in Nepal. As no reliable electricity would be available, discovered use of phase change incubator to test samples and produce reliable results.
  5. Redesigned ruler on student planner book to incorporate 3-hole punch into design, by making the hole punch a template for a circle, triangle, and rectangle. Information about each was printed on ruler making more of a reference tool than just a ruler.