Jacques Farmer

Director of Product Development @Aquabrass

CA

Since my arrival as the head of Aquabrass R&D with a mandate to focus on efficiencies in the analysis, design, development, testing and documenting of all the products and supporting tools, my team• Reviewed and updated much of the existing product-literature while also producing support material for all new items brought to market• Implemented systematic procedures to insure continuous product-improvement… already resulting in a dramatic reduction of recurring issues and of certain types of service calls.• Improved and re-designed several components to bring them up-to-date.• Collaborated with the different manufacturers teams to develop and bring to market numerous, properly adapted, faucet collections. • And completely restructured the BOM-approach for all new in-house collections. We established a “signature” set of common parts to use and combine when creating new collections (or rejuvenating older ones) allowing a faster response to clients needs and more flexibility for special projects while minimizing waste when comes the time to retire a collection.In parallel, we vastly enlarged the range of products covered within the different certification norms, agencies and processes.Finally, drawing on my extensive knowledge of the luxury bathroom/kitchen Industry, its connection with the Interior-Design world; and accounting for the manufacturing operations involved, I also contribute to the new-product selection process used both within Aquabrass and within AD Waters.

McGill University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), (Psychology, Biology/Biological Sciences, Computer science)

Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne

Formation generale en sciences pures et appliquees, Natural Sciences