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Avril Stringer – “There is already a skill shortage and this will become more evident as time goes on”

August 16, 2017 by nathaliemaillol

Avril Stringer is a serial entrepreneur and inventor and one of leading women in 3D Printing in the UK. As such, she wears many hats: co-founder of 3D Print Works with her brother since 1996, and Sales & Marketing Manager at Safeglass (Europe) Limited, selling their patented material for break-glass devices. If you need an example of Avril’s achievements, she helped to develop a new polymer material which mimics glass but does not cause injury when broken. It is used in Breakglass. Before they came […]

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Ting Tang – “If you feel your maker spirit summons you then it’s time for you to start 3D printing”

August 9, 2017 by Nora Toure

Ting Tang, the founder of Elements Lab (Youtube channel available here), manages a Taiwan-based 3D design and printing startup. Elements Lab started as a 3D printing education center and printing service in 2013. In 2015 the business model expanded to include the fabrication of 3D printing jewelry. Having a solid background in the IT industry, Ting tends to implement digital tools to bridge the gap between customized jewelry and demand of the masses. In February 2016, Elements Lab launched their first […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: education, IT, jewelry, Taiwan

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Mara Hitner – “Becoming involved in 3D printing is all about having an access point that aligns with your particular interest”

August 2, 2017 by Nora Toure

Mara Hitner, or @3DPGirl for her twitter followers, couldn’t have chosen a better Twitter handle. She wasn’t meant for 3D Printing in the first place though, as she started her career as a Rock singer! Her passion for 3D Printing, as well as her persistence, got her into the industry in 2015, as she joined MatterHackers. Mara, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? I was in advertising sales for […]

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Jessie Tuscano – “I look forward to the day when I’m viewed as exceptional because of my accomplishments, not because of my gender”

July 26, 2017 by Nora Toure

Jessie likes to think of impossible as [usually] a state of mind. With sheer determination (and lots of coffee) she lives for challenging impossible things. In elementary school, Jessie was fascinated with the universe and also directing her 4 cousins and sister in an elaborate family puppet show production. By high school, she loved physics and anatomy, but couldn’t get enough of set construction and stage management of her high school theater. In college, she was determined to become an […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, education, entrepreneur, technology, USA

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Ann Marie Shillito – “One of my personal aims is to make 3D printing accessible to artists and designer makers who struggle to create what they want using CAD”

July 12, 2017 by Nora Toure

Ann Marie is a contemporary designer jeweler & maker, teacher, lecturer, research fellow, founder & CEO of Anarkik3D Ltd. She is passionate about enabling non-CAD using designer makers, 3D artists, creative amateurs, hobbyists to engage with 3D digital making using technologies such as 3D Printing. She is also the author of ‘Digital Crafts: Industrial Technologies for Applied Artists & Designer Makers‘ & Fellow of the RSA. Ann Marie, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: design, UK

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Erin Winick – “3D printing help us spark girl’s interests in STEM by showing them the creativity and true art that is a part of this technology”

July 5, 2017 by Nora Toure

Erin Winick is the founder and CEO of Sci Chic. Erin is a science communicator and a recent mechanical engineering graduate. Sci Chic uses plastic and metal 3D printing to create science and engineering inspired jewelry. Erin, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? I have always been a maker at heart. As a kid, I loved making LEGO towers and sewing dresses. When I got into college, […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: education, fashion, jewelry, USA

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Crystal Watley Kigoni – “I got the idea to bring 3D Printing to Africa when I was hospitalized in a rural village hospital on top of a mountain”

June 28, 2017 by Nora Toure

Crystal Watley Kigoni is dedicated to the use of information and communications technologies for personal and community development. She began her work in this area in 2007 with the Kenyan subsidiary of Intersat, a leading provider of satellite-based data solutions in Africa offering Internet via Satellite. Later, she founded and directed Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development through Information Empowerment that has implemented small innovative projects in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Voices of Africa worked in many of the low-income […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: africa, FDM, healthcare, recylcing

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Annalisa Chiappone – “It is essential to continue to improve the machines technology, design, and materials to remain on top of the innovation”

June 21, 2017 by Nora Toure

Annalisa Chiappone is a Material Engineer, Ph.D. in Materials Science from Politecnico di Torino; her doctorate, in collaboration with the “Centre Technique du Papier” in Grenoble, was focused on lingo-cellulosic materials for the development of reinforced polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries applications. In 2012 Annalisa moved to the Italian Institute of Technology(IIT), Center for Sustainable Future Technologies, as a post-doc researcher Until 2015 her research activity was mainly focused on polymeric materials and composites for energy or electronic applications, exploiting the […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: DLP, Italy, research, SLA

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Kristina Shea – “I am excited about 4D printing and our new work in this area including designing reconfigurable and active systems”

June 14, 2017 by Nora Toure

Kristina Shea is Professor for Engineering Design and Computing in Mechanical and Processing Engineering at ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on developing cutting-edge computational models, methods, and tools that enable the design of more novel and optimized engineered systems and products as well as to automate design and fabrication processes. Currently, the focus is on methods for 3D and 4D printing as well as computational design synthesis. Kristina, could you let us know about your background the work you are doing? […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: 4D Printing, computational design, design, research, Switzerland

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Jennifer Killingback – “Procuring qualified talent is currently a challenge that will be further amplified by the growth we are seeing worldwide”

June 7, 2017 by Nora Toure

Jennifer Killingback has over 20 years of experience in HR, Recruiting and Staffing. She currently works with Alexander Daniels Global as their Principal in North America specifically to the Additive Manufacturing industry. For the past two years, she has been directly involved in the world of 3D printing in both HR Management and Recruitment. Jennifer, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? My background has been largely in […]

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Johanna Schwartz – “The really challenging part is developing orthogonal photoinitiators. Once this is done, the material space capable of being used in this multi-material process can really start to broaden”

May 31, 2017 by Nora Toure

Johanna Schwartz is graduate student in chemistry who has a BA in chemistry and biology. She worked on various research projects, from synthesizing more efficient hydrogen fuel cell polymers, improving the synthesis and purity of cuprous oxide, and even identifying and characterizing thin phytoplankton layers in the Sargasso Sea. For her Bachelor’s thesis research, she worked with Dr. David Myers at Simon’s Rock, focusing on natural product synthesis. Specifically the research focused on the synthesis and biological testing of antibiotically and antifungally active […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: DLP, research, resin, Seattle, USA

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Anna Zevelyov – “My challenges as a woman entrepreneur? The exact same challenges as for a male-entrepreneur (keeping the lights on)”

May 24, 2017 by Nora Toure

Anna, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D scanning and printing in the first place? I’m a diplomat by trade. For years I’ve worked at various international and domestic non-profits. My last job brought me to Moscow where I met a group of loveable nerds who happened to be creating a 3D start-up called Artec. Because of my native English, they asked me to write a few letters to some potential distributors around […]

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Tracy Leigh Hazzard – “This is an evolution and not a revolution”

May 17, 2017 by Nora Toure

Tracy Hazzard is an Inc. Columnist and the Product Strategist for Hazz Design. She has co-designed and developed 250+ consumer products! She works with design-leading brands like Martha Stewart Living and Herman Miller and retailers like Costco and Target. She holds over 37 utility and design patents. For 25 years, Tracy has been pushing businesses to rethink their product lines as a strategy to design in success and increase revenues. A proponent of intentional innovation as a competitive advantage and asset-builder, Tracy […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, design, entrepreneur, manufacturing, technology

Leslie Frost – “Aerospace is in its infancy with 3D printing and it is just beginning to realize the true capabilities of additive manufacturing”

May 10, 2017 by Nora Toure

Leslie Frost manages Arcam’s marketing efforts globally for the EBM business along with AP&C’s powder business and DTI’s orthopedic contract manufacturing business since April 2016. Leslie has been working in the 3D world starting with Dassault Systemes SolidsWorks Corp. since 2008. Her experience with 3D printing started with the 3D CAD world and moved to 3D printing for plastics with the Polyjet technology. When Objet and Stratasys merged she played a critical role in managing the marketing efforts to promote […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: aerospace, entrepreneur, healthcare, manufacturing, technology

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Dana McCallum – “We are all changing the way things are designed and made, and making what was once impossible, possible. What is more exciting than that?”

May 3, 2017 by Nora Toure

Dana McCallum has a history in manufacturing, beginning her career in injection molding and 3D printing. You may know her as the Head of Production Partnerships at Carbon, or as the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG). She is also an active member of Women in Manufacturing (WiM) and is the Director for WiM’s California chapter. She definitely is one woman shaping today and tomorrow’s manufacturing. Dana, could you let us know about your […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, CLIP, manufacturing, Printer manufacturer, technology

Suz Somersall – “If you lead with creativity, the love for STEM will follow”

April 26, 2017 by Nora Toure

Maker from the age of 4, Suz Somersall has explored many mediums until she finally found her true passion in 3D modeling and 3D printing. After studying art and design as an undergraduate at Brown University she went on to study and teach at The Rhode Island School of Design – where she first was introduced to the world of 3D printing. Her latest startup – KiraKira3D – teaches kids about 3D printing through online art and design classes. Suz, […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: 3d modeling, Business, education, entrepreneur, technology

Uyen Tran – “The San Diego Public Library Innovation Lab is a place for the community to get together to learn and share new ideas with each other”

April 12, 2017 by Nora Toure

Uyen, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? I’m a trained librarian. I’ve worked in libraries my entire life. I first learned about 3d printing in 2013 when I heard that our library was getting two 3d printers. I didn’t know anything about 3d printer at the time, but always loved technologies so I offered to help. Next thing I know, I ended up running the makerspace at […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, education, manufacturing, technology

Lucy Beard – “3D printing was just the accident of the solution to the customer problem I found in finding shoes that fit”

March 29, 2017 by Nora Toure

Lucy Beard is a former mathematician and actuary who grew to love customers more than numbers during her years working as an executive in Silicon Valley. She experienced her entrepreneurial epiphany one day while she was shoe shopping and realized she could customize her coffee order, but when it came to buying shoes she was stuck with the same ten size options. She founded Feetz to reply to this shoe customer issue we all have. Lucy, could you let us […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, entrepreneur, fashion, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, Women

Laura Hockaday – “When I was pitched the idea of building a living heart valve replacement using 3D printing, I was blown away”

March 15, 2017 by Nora Toure

Laura Hockaday Kang attended Cornell University in the Biomedical Engineering Department. During that time she was awarded a GAANN fellowship, a Morgan fellowship, and graduate research NSF fellowship. She became a research assistant in Jonathan Butcher’s Cardiovascular Developmental Bioengineering Laboratory in 2008, and joined the heart valve bioprinting project. Laura is presently working as a postdoc in Germany at the University of Muenster/UKM, in the Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging. Laura, could you detail your first experience with 3D […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: bioprinting, healthcare, research, technology

Paulene Siew – “I was amazed at how a 3D printer can print out a model just within hours and I know this technology will definitely be an added advantage to many companies”

March 1, 2017 by Nora Toure

Paulene Siew is the the Operation Director for Singapore-based start-up 3D Printing Studios. We asked her about her background, thoughts about the A.M industry and how she handles being a woman in a man’s world. Paulene, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? After graduating with a Master’s degree in IT from Queensland University of Technology, I worked for a Fortune 100 global business software giant for 10 […]

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Category Archives: Profiles

Avril Stringer – “There is already a skill shortage and this will become more evident as time goes on”

Ting Tang – “If you feel your maker spirit summons you then it’s time for you to start 3D printing”

Mara Hitner – “Becoming involved in 3D printing is all about having an access point that aligns with your particular interest”

Jessie Tuscano – “I look forward to the day when I’m viewed as exceptional because of my accomplishments, not because of my gender”

Ann Marie Shillito – “One of my personal aims is to make 3D printing accessible to artists and designer makers who struggle to create what they want using CAD”

Erin Winick – “3D printing help us spark girl’s interests in STEM by showing them the creativity and true art that is a part of this technology”

Crystal Watley Kigoni – “I got the idea to bring 3D Printing to Africa when I was hospitalized in a rural village hospital on top of a mountain”

Annalisa Chiappone – “It is essential to continue to improve the machines technology, design, and materials to remain on top of the innovation”

Kristina Shea – “I am excited about 4D printing and our new work in this area including designing reconfigurable and active systems”

Jennifer Killingback – “Procuring qualified talent is currently a challenge that will be further amplified by the growth we are seeing worldwide”

Johanna Schwartz – “The really challenging part is developing orthogonal photoinitiators. Once this is done, the material space capable of being used in this multi-material process can really start to broaden”

Anna Zevelyov – “My challenges as a woman entrepreneur? The exact same challenges as for a male-entrepreneur (keeping the lights on)”

Tracy Leigh Hazzard – “This is an evolution and not a revolution”

Leslie Frost – “Aerospace is in its infancy with 3D printing and it is just beginning to realize the true capabilities of additive manufacturing”

Dana McCallum – “We are all changing the way things are designed and made, and making what was once impossible, possible. What is more exciting than that?”

Suz Somersall – “If you lead with creativity, the love for STEM will follow”

Uyen Tran – “The San Diego Public Library Innovation Lab is a place for the community to get together to learn and share new ideas with each other”

Lucy Beard – “3D printing was just the accident of the solution to the customer problem I found in finding shoes that fit”

Laura Hockaday – “When I was pitched the idea of building a living heart valve replacement using 3D printing, I was blown away”

Paulene Siew – “I was amazed at how a 3D printer can print out a model just within hours and I know this technology will definitely be an added advantage to many companies”