The Development Team
FlashPoint has spent years vetting internal and external resources to help new firms get to market. We have long standing releationships with manufacturers, prototype sources, and technical resources.
FlashPoint's core team is small, designed to reduce overhead to potential clients. Depending on client and project needs, we develop a full multi-functional team using our preferred team members. These team members are highly experienced, and are attached to projects on an as-needed basis. Our network of preferred team members numbers over 25, and includes experts in industrial design, strategy, mechanical design, injection molding, electronics, packaging, and sales.
Tucker Marion, Managing Partner
FlashPoint's managing partner is Tucker Marion. Tucker is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Bucknell University, holds a Master's from the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School in Technology Management, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State. He has held numerous product development and manufacturing positions at large corporations, including Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation. While at Wharton, Tucker got the bug to start his own company, and shortly thereafter he co-founded the Innovation Factory, where he headed product development and operations.
After leaving the Innovation Factory, he began FlashPoint Development, leading the design effort for numerous consumer and technical projects. Tucker is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University's College of Business and School of Technological Entrepreneurship, specializing in product development, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He publishes articles in top academic journals and speaks regularly on the topics of innovation in new firms, design, and global product development.
Jessica Chin, Project Manager & Mechanical Engineer
Jessica Chin is a Project Manager at FlashPoint. She is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. In addition, she holds a M.S. in Technological Entrepreneurship from Northeastern University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a focus on product design and commercialization.
Jessica joined FlashPoint after founding two companies, Jessica Chin PhotoEngineering and JDAxis, Inc, creator of STOMP, a thermal detection system for preventative medicine. She joined FlashPoint because it gave her an opportunity to work on a variety of products at different stages of the product development process.
Matt Bridge, Senior Electrical Engineer
Matt Bridge is a Purdue University graduate and owner of Bridge Electronics LLC. In addition to more than 15 years of electronics product development he is accomplished in the art of tinkering. He has a clear goal to understand how things work and convert that understanding into polished products. Matt loves the challenge of researching and building new types of embedded electronics.
Matt Jacob, Senior Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) Designer
Matt is FlashPoint’s CAD Manager. He specializes in plastic part design and organic shape 3D modeling. With over 11 years of CAD experience, Matt can quickly development even the most difficult surfaces. Matt is also an expert in injection molded part design, about to complete his Masters of Science in Plastics Engineering. Matt is also a Solidworks Professional. When not designing amazing curves and lofts, Matt is an avid hiker.
Michael is an industrial designer with a flare for ideation and a mechanical sensibility that is rare to find. He has worked with an array of clients including iRobot, MIT Media Lab, and Hasbro. Michael's focus is on solving complex problems through meaningful and effective design. He has a strong ability to communicate ideas, generate visual concepts and translate consumer needs into compelling design solutions. Michael also enjoys teaching industrial design as an instructor for MIT's 2.00b Toy Product Design course and as a mentor for MIT's 2.009 Product Processes course.
Frank Criscione, Industrial Design
Frank is a trained Industrial Designer (BFA Massachusetts College of Art & Design) with a unique background in science, marketing, service and functional art. He approaches product development with an energetic idealism, using his talent for form development and user centered design thinking to develop simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems. Frank also shares his experience in graphic design and branding to work through logo, packaging and collateral needs for our products and clients. In his free time, Frank busies himself with wood working, ceramics and soft goods production for his developing line of products for the home.
