Daniel Paris
Product Development Lead @Skellerup Industries Limited
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WORK HISTORY
Product Development Lead @Skellerup Industries Limited
Christchurch City, NZ
Leadership across product design, tool design, and formulation design, supporting a team of six staff in developing innovative rubber consumables for the global dairy sector.Key Responsibilities:• FY24 budget planning and presentation to the directors.• Recruitment and onboarding of new product development staff.• Coordinated multidisciplinary efforts to deliver innovative products, ensuring rigorous testing and compliance with industry standards.• Served as principal design reviewer, ensuring critical knowledge capture for testing and design processes.• Provided manufacturing support through detailed engineering documentation and process alignment.• Managed the company’s IP register, ensuring global compliance and alignment with ongoing product innovations.Achievements:• Successfully appointed highly effective staff, enhancing team capabilities.• Supported staff initiatives to expand mechanical testing capabilities.• Implemented new hiring systems and improved structured onboarding processes.• Proposed and advocated for a professional development framework to formally recognise staff experience and expertise.• Championed improvements to support neurodivergent team members, fostering growth, communication, and collaboration.• Led the delivery of the Thriver product to market – the company’s first significant new product in years – involving extensive lab and farm trials.• Secured Provisional Patent AU 20••••••99.
EDUCATION
University of Canterbury
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) (Hons.)
University of Auckland
Diploma in Design & Specification of Plastics
ABOUT DANIEL PARIS
I’m a neurodivergent engineering professional with a passion for complex problem-solving, system-level thinking, and creating products that make a meaningful difference. With formal diagnoses of ADHD and ASD, I bring a unique blend of hyperfocus, creativity, and analytical rigour—balanced with a deep sense of fairness, purpose, and integrity. These traits have helped me thrive in R&D environments, where clarity, structure, and impact matter. My background spans product development, technical leadership, and esoteric analysis, often in roles that require cross-functional thinking and strategic foresight. Whether I\'m leading a team through a first-of-its-kind product cycle, refining test systems, or designing new approaches to legacy challenges, I’m at my best when I can connect big-picture vision with detailed execution. What sets me apart is my ability to see underlying systems—both technical and human—and to improve them thoughtfully. I value autonomy, authenticity, and inclusion, and I’m drawn to workplaces that recognise diverse ways of thinking as a strength, not a hurdle. I\'m especially interested in roles with a mission-driven focus: sustainable technologies, assistive systems, ethical innovation, or anything that combines engineering excellence with human impact. If you’re building something ambitious, inclusive, and worth doing well—I’d love to connect.
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