Mechanical product design engineer

Designing the mechanics behind the experience.

I’m Zander. I develop mechanisms and consumer products from early architecture through prototyping, validation, and production.

Senior Lead Mechanical Engineer at Spin Master · Bay Area

Spin Master · Shipped consumer product

I led Puppyfly’s single-motor mechanical architecture through development and production at a scale of more than one million units.

Selected work

Interactive products, everyday objects, and physical systems. A closer look at how they’re developed.

Consumer product

Form studies, thermal analysis, and component integration for an insulated lunch container with a removable silicone food shuttle.

Inclusive play

Seat and handle development, full-scale prototyping, and structural validation for a playground product sold worldwide.

Design for manufacture

A compact playground spinner redesigned with vertical bolting and a two-part frame to simplify assembly and installation.

Fluid-flow analysis

SolidWorks flow analysis comparing muffler configurations with and without a venturi at the same inlet condition.

P&G · Manufacturing automation

A Bucknell senior-design team project combining cleaning trials, surface-damage evaluation, and a working prototype.

Controls research

Overhead-camera tracking, Arduino actuation, and steering algorithms connected to physical vehicle experiments.

01 / Interaction
Understand the experience
Translate what a person needs to do, understand, or feel into concrete requirements for motion, geometry, access, and handling.
02 / Architecture
Develop the system
Work through how the mechanism, materials, components, and manufacturing processes fit together in an approach that can be tested.
03 / Physical evidence
Learn through making
Use prototypes, analysis, and real use to examine the design, then carry those findings into the next iteration and production details.