William Burke

San Francisco, California, United States

I help my clients bring products from concept to physical reality. I offer full service design consulting, from concept refinement and user research, through prototype development and into production. I am a generalist, having developed consumer product prototypes for hardware startups, specialized suspension systems for military trucks, and un-manned surface vessels under Office of Naval Research contract.

My domain expertise is in:

  • Mechanical and Machine Design
  • Design for Manufacture
  • Kinematics/Dynamics Analysis
  • FEA/Stress Analysis
  • Failure Analysis
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • CAD Modeling/Drafting
  • Vehicle Dynamics/Tire Dynamics/Suspension Design
  • Design for the Marine Environment
  • Coffee!
  • Education
    • BS & MS Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech