capabilities: Topics for Contracting, Consulting, and Collaboration
These are example questions I’ve answered for others. What problem are you trying to solve?
How can I help you?
Technology Strategy and Intellectual Property
Are you asking the right questions? What questions should you be asking?
You’re a VC, wondering ‘do (they) have something new, valuable, special?’
You have a cool idea, should you patent it?
The Strategies of Competition, Coopetition, and Co-creation and how to apply it – lessons from the trenches, working in 12 different business models.
Grant-funded Research
Let’s collaborate!
Add industry expertise to your team for balance & diversity
Grant writing, budget development
Co-Investigator or Research Project Manager
Autonomous / Self-driving Vehicles
How safe is safe enough?
How do I validate system safety? What can / should I do while I'm still defining my software and hardware architecture?
“A Plan to Develop Safe Autonomous Vehicles. And Prove it.” What are the opportunities and limitations of implementing Mobileye/Intel’s plan?
My ODD focuses on rural roads, is there a representative test environment I can use for development before testing in public?
With the advent of AVs, how should our corporate safety policy and product safety strategy evolve? What Functional Safety goals are appropriate?
Getting your AV ready for market is taking a long time – Can I extract value before that?
Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles
Safety
Accessibility
Energy Efficiency
Convenience & Time Efficiency
Crash Safety / Occupant Protection
You want to add swiveling and flat-reclining seats to a future vehicle – how will you protect the occupants in a crash?
What requirements apply?
How will you validate the systems when there are no rules?
SSL (founded 2022) offers a solution to non-standard seating configurations and crash modes:
Surrounding curtain/airbag, that
Deploys from the seat, is
Closed by a tether, and is
Effective when unbelted
Understanding the Automotive Industry
You have a brilliant idea, but you're baffled as to why automotive OEMs don’t agree. Do you understand their underlying needs?
Does your data scientist understand the frontline problem they're assigned to solve? Pair them with an industry expert.
Other Cool Stuff
product design: VSR in Collaboration with a meticulous engineering company
Industries: Automotive, Aerospace, Drones, Robotics
Services: Product & Industrial Design, Styling, Value Engineering, Simulation, Manufacturing Engineering
Core CAE expertise: Structural (static, durability/fatigue, dynamic & impact); Crash, Thermal, Topology Optimization, Multibody, NVH, CFD, Manufacturing (mold flow, metal forming)
Business Consulting: VSR in Collaboration with a boutique management consulting company
Industries: Automotive and Aerospace
Services: Business Analysis, Project & Program Management, Organizational Change Management
Core expertise: Telematics, Car Sharing, Autonomous Vehicles, AR / VR as Corporate Tools, Microlearning and Engagement
Coaching and Mentoring
Do you work for a mega-company and feel lost or forgotten, or venturing into a startup and feeling overwhelmed? You need an 'Inuksuk’ to help point the way.
So you're interested in Racing?
Sports cars, sailboats, iceboats
VSR can guide you from scratch or deliver a turnkey, competition ready racing machine
Customized training, coaching, and team management as desired
