William Drinkwater

Role
Director of Engineering at YETI
Location
Austin, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About William Drinkwater

Tinker (verb): to attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory…

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering

    YETI

    Mar 2022 — Present

    Manage the engineering group for YETI’s highest revenue category, drinkware - Helped organize a structural shift within the company: a new director was hired to manage engineering services (our prototype and validation facility), a new director was brought in to manage the hard cooler and cargo categories and under my and a peer’s recommendation, the manufacturing engineering team was moved into operations - Increased the drinkware engineering team by 3 people (thus far) and are nearing release of an updated engineering development process that is focused on early development

Education

  • Syracuse University

    B.S., Mechanical Engineering

    2005 — 2009

  • Syracuse University

    M.S., Engineering Management

    2009 — 2011

Skills

  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Pro Engineer
  • Mathcad
  • Industrial Design
  • Inventor
  • Product Design
  • Raman Microscopy
  • Cad
  • Design Engineering
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Manufacturing
  • Solidworks
  • Autocad
  • Product Development
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Project Engineering
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Tolerance Analysis
  • Design for Manufacturing
  • Gd&T
  • Simulations
  • Minitab
  • Six Sigma

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