How to be a Great Leader – Darby Vannier – Ep 146

Darby Vannier has over 20 years of experience as a seasoned leader adept at building and growing organizations. As a president & CEO of an indispensable leadership group, he excels as an executive coach, consultant,  and speaker.

Number one tip:

As you start to lead people, don't underestimate the impact you're having. Because you may be having the impact that you have no idea that's actually happening. 

Contact info:

Beindispensible.com

LinkedIn

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Francis is an Engineering Leadership Coach who helps CTOs and VPs of Engineering at scaling tech startups nurture amazing work cultures and high-performance teams that build products and services that delight their customers. 

Number one tip: 

If you are a staff engineer or have technical position: remember whenever are acting with someone they are a human too, you will have more empathy. 

Contact info: 

Francis Lacoste - The VPE Coach 

LinkedIn 

Career Clarity Checklist 

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The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. 

You can reach me at [email protected]. 

You can download it here on iTunes: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-engineering-entrepreneur-podcast/id1141757951 

Or directly on my site at CADdesignhelp.com 

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Scott Tarcy 

Dan Simpkins is the Chief Executive Officer and one of the two founding partners of Dwellwell Analytics, Inc. The company has developed an IoT SaaS product that helps protect residential real estate assets by identifying maintenance issues before they become costly and disruptive 

Dan’s company Hillcrest created the original 3D mouse for smart TV’s. He went from there to his new company Dwellwell which makes diagnostic sensors for homes.  

Number One Tip: 

Don’t let convention wisdom get you down, like “that’s a crazy idea”.

The 10 laws of the entrepreneur. You have to go over the line to see the line.

Early on, an entrepreneur should seek mentors.

Contact Info: 

Linkedin: Dan Simpkins 

https://dwellwell.ai/ 

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The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected].

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Tom founded Lift and Shift Foundation and most recently Project Biotech that aim to improve the lives of others. He's also a graduate student and a former army veteran with a personal story of resilience.

The Lift and Shift foundation is a non-profit who help veterans shift from military to civilian life through science and technology. 

Project Biotech is a business that makes custom Orthotics and targeted nutrition plans to fight foot pain and diabetic symptoms.

Number One Tip:

You can’t do everything yourself and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Contact Information:

https://www.weliftandshift.org

https://projectbiotech.co

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The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com.

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Jessie is the co-founder and CEO of KittyCAD.

KittyCAD is a new CAD software that will have both your normal graphical interface but also the ability to code directly. 

This solves a common problem in CAD of both slow workflow and having to fix failed features, like fillets. I have been there many times! 

Make sure to check out this episode. I can wait for Jessie and her team to finish the product.

Do what you love.

https://twitter.com/jessfraz

Kittycad.io

The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected]

Greg’s background is in medicine, but he has been passionate about wine since his first sip of a vintage wine in Napa at age 16. He received his Master of Science in Medical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I’m not a wine guy, but the history of why wine is bottled in glass and the size of the bottle is interesting. We discuss all of that and why Coravin solves many of the problems of storing wine after it has been opened.

Number One Tip:

The best inventions come from meeting an unmet need. And you need to know whether you want to be an inventor or an entrepreneur. 

Contact Information:

DM him on X and Instagram: Gregatcoravin The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected].

David is the Editorial Director of Digital Media at Industrial Media, a publishing company that owns some of the most recognized websites in the manufacturing industry. These include Industrial Equipment News, Manufacturing Business Technology, Manufacturing.net, and Food Manufacturing.  

David has an interesting job, and we talk about how he got started, how he finds out about the latest news, and some good stories he’s written.

Top Tip:

Focus on constant improvement

Contact Information:

David Mantey   

Editorial Director, Digital Media

Today in Manufacturing podcast: https://www.ien.com/podcast 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mantey/ 

Design & Development Today: https://www.designdevelopmenttoday.com/ 

Twitter: @djamesmanny

The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected].

Particle41 – Ben Johnson – Ep 139

Ben is the CEO & Founder of Particle41, a development firm providing businesses with integral support on application development, data science, and DevOps projects. 

I learned some new things in this episode. Devops is platform engineering. For example, his team created a training program on the Oculus headset. The training program was for safety training for operating a forklift. 

We discussed raising capital. Start with angel investors in your community. 

Lastly, we discussed personal productivity and AI.

Top Tip:

Just get up and do it.

Contact info:

[email protected]

Pam Hurley is founder and president of Hurley Write, Inc. She helps corporations fix the writing problems that are costing them time & money.

Everyone must write papers in high school and college (write 10 pages on subject X) but in the real world this is not how it works.

In the business world, the importance of writing is clear communication. For example, I write SOP’s (standard operating procedures) for most processes in my business. This makes it easy to train a new employee. 

Number one tip:

Plan for good writing.

Contact info:

Pam Hurley, PhD

President

910-233-7670

Hurley Write, Inc.

www.hurleywrite.com

https://www.engineeringcareeraccelerator.com/engineeringentrepreneur

The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected]

Brian Kobus is the southeast Business Development Manager for Universal Robots based out of Charlotte, NC.

I personally met Brian during a demonstration he was running with a robot. He showed us a simple pick and place example of the robot moving a block from one area to another

The UR robot is easy to program. No code is needed.

When it comes to repetitive tasks, getting a robot can pay for itself very quickly. In addition to labor savings, robots do not need bathroom breaks, time off and do not make mistakes.

Number one tip

Don’t be intimidated by robotics, once you learn it the next project will be a lot easier

Contact:

[email protected]

https://www.engineeringcareeraccelerator.com/engineeringentrepreneur

The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast is produced by Scott Tarcy, President of CADdesignhelp.com. You can reach me at [email protected]

Aaron Moncur is the founder of Pipeline Design & Engineering. aron has a similar background to me where he worked as a design engineer first before starting his company. He worked designing medical devices.

His company specializes in making custom manufacturing equipment.

He’s learned (like me) that trading time for money has limited scalability so he has gotten into creating products. His first one is a threaded detail installer.

Aaron also has a podcast. Check it out, it’s called “Being an Engineer”

Number one tip: be nice to people. Everything we do, its all about relationships

Contact:

Linkedin

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