Birgit Leitner
Product Design & Development Lead at Propel LLC
- Role
- Product Design & Development Lead at Propel Llc
- Location
- Providence, RI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Birgit Leitner
Birgit Leitner is the Lead Design Engineer at Propel, an innovative company specializing in textile technology research and development, primarily serving military and first responder markets. As a subject matter expert in knitting and technical garment design, Birgit integrates new technologies and wearable electronic systems into advanced textile solutions. She leads Propel’s Smart Textile development team and is an inventor on the patent for the Wearable Advanced Sensor Platform (WASP) shirt, a cutting-edge smart shirt for firefighters. Birgit holds several utility patents and is a co-inventor on three patents from Propel\'s Smart Integrated Shirt (SIU), a physiological monitoring solution for military applications. She is proficient in German and holds both an MA and a BA in Fashion Design from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
Experience
Product Design & Development Lead
Sep 2014 — Present · Pawtucket, RI, US
Propel LLC is a product innovation company focused on the development, sales and marketing of textile technologies.
Education
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Master of Art
1989 — 1994
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