S5E2 Tony Dedeo | Medical Device Engineering Leaders 3

Being an Engineer

Tony shares his career journey from plant engineer to leadership roles and offers advice on developing soft skills, gaining diverse experience, and keeping highly skilled engineers motivated.

Main Topics:

• Developing soft skills and emotional intelligence
• Gaining multi-disciplinary experience through various opportunities
• Trends in the medical device industry, like single-use devices and diagnostics
• Macroeconomic challenges facing the industry
• Tips for engineering leadership, like providing new challenges

About the guest: Tony Dedeo is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in operational strategic planning, manufacturing, quality management, supply chain, and team leadership. Tony has held positions throughout his career, from consultant to director to VP as he has helped organizations drive improvement.

Link:
Tony Dedeo - LinkedIn
About Being An Engineer

The Being An Engineer podcast is a repository for industry knowledge and a tool through which engineers learn about and connect with relevant companies, technologies, people resources, and opportunities. We feature successful mechanical engineers and interview engineers who are passionate about their work and who made a great impact on the engineering community.

The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at www.teampipeline.us

Chapters

1. Tony shares his career journey from plant engineer to leadership role (00:01:45)

2. Developing soft skills and emotional intelligence is important for career growth (00:09:35)

3. Trends in the medical device industry like single-use devices and point-of-care diagnostics (00:15:10)

4. Engineering leadership challenges like keeping highly skilled engineers motivated (00:23:22)

5. Tips for providing new challenges to engineers through rotational assignments (00:28:59)

6. An ideal integrated ERP system could dramatically improve team productivity (00:31:27)