Walter balfour
Director of Product Design & Development
Walter Balfour is a multi-discipline product development professional with an extensive background in Product Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, 3-D CAD and Prototyping Technologies. Mr. Balfour currently serves as the Director of Product Design & Development with MedApps, Inc., a wireless medical device technology company, where he drives the product development efforts from initial conceptualization, through the Engineering and Manufacturing processes. Mr. Balfour delivers innovative design solutions that bring uniquely identifiable brand appeal to the marketplace with products that are highly adoptable by consumers.
Mr. Balfour is a strong team leader with a wide range of User-Centered Design, Engineering, Human Factors and Design-for-Manufacturing experience including medical devices, consumer electronics, furniture, housewares and toys. Mr. Balfour has over 10 years of Product Development, Engineering and Manufacturing experience, with over 8 years of hands on experience utilizing state of the art CAD modeling packages including SolidWorks 2011 with Certifications in Essential & Advanced Modeling.
While Mr. Balfour has been with MedApps, his team’s work in product development has been distinguished with a number of prestigious awards including the 2011 Edison Award for Best New Product in the Health, Wellness and Safety category and the CTIA Wireless Association’s 2010 E-Tech Award, in the category of Healthcare Enterprise and Vertical Market Solution.
Mr. Balfour received his B.S.D. in Industrial Design from Arizona State University, where he was selected to lead a team of Designers and Engineers for the Intel sponsored Innovation Space program, laying the groundwork for the development and implementation of the next generation of Medication Management appliances. Mr. Balfour is currently an advisor for the X Prize Foundation’s Life Sciences Group competition, in which participating multi-disciplinary teams of experts are vying to develop the first functional “tricorder”, to enable mobile medical diagnostics.
