About Us

Business owners, Abdul S. Assaad and Gretchen L. Kiser offer a broad spectrum of professional science and engineering services:

mechanical engineering design services for manufacturing business clients, as well as creating novel design solutions for business and home use;

biotechnology, research development, and technical writing consulting services to start-up life science businesses, and academic research units.

Abdul S. Assaad, MS

Mechanical engineering design consultant boasts 20 years industry experience, including 12 years of design engineering experience that included technical team management. The following are some of the strengths that he brings to the engineering table:

Cradle-to-grave engineering including design, testing, validation and process implementation into production
Project management with engineering scheduling
Project leader with leadership training; management of technical staff
Managing multiple project simultaneously
Innovative part and tooling design
Cost reduction and product improvement; design for manufacturability and maintainability
Design of multiple components for multiple projects as cross-functional team member
3-D modeling, drawing and rapid prototyping using SolidWorks with GD&T experience
Ability to evaluate existing product and implement necessary improvements
Managing time and budget effectively and focused on company’s goal
NPI, through collaboration with Marketing, Product Development, Quality and Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing, customer-focused design solutions
Ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary team
Out-of-the-box solutions
High volume production; fast-paced environment; adaptable to changing priorities
Detail-oriented with continuous improvement philosophy
Broad manufacturing process knowledge, including:
- Sheet metal design
- Forming, Stamping
- Welding, Machining, Casting
- Mechanical component and system conceptualization
- Reporting and presentation
- Quality systems experience
- Experience with vendor and customer interaction
- Expert skill in use of spreadsheets/ Excel
- Hands-on, solution-oriented
- Patent-holder

Gretchen L. Kiser, PhD

Biotechnology consultant has diverse experience in academia, and the public and private biomedical research and development sector.

Areas of expertise include: research development, molecular biology methods, experimental design, DOE, statistical data analysis, gene expression and SNP analysis, and technical writing.

Areas of experience to bring to any project:

over 20 years as a lab researcher, broad hands-on bench experience
research development and research administration leader with over 15 years experience on the administrative side of the house
participation in biotechnology start-up, including lab set-up
manuscript and grant technical writing
biotechnology product launch contribution at both the management and the technical team level
industry regulatory activities such as QSR/GMP ISO13485 compliance, and cross-industry government-sponsored standards establishment projects (e.g., ERCC, MAQC)
gene expression and SNP microarray analysis
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt experience
program and project management