Design Engineer/ Providing Innovative and Reliable Solutions/ Nike Veteran.

Creative & Design

<p><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nate, a Design Engineer with 20+ years of experience, specializes in wearable technology and has experience across diverse industries, including footwear, apparel, equipment, and helmets. Passionate about solving early-stage conceptual challenges, he guides projects from inception to commercialization. With a rich industry background and prior work at Nike Innovation, Nate leverages expertise in biomechanics research, reliability engineering and collaborating with clients from large corporations to startups. Applying a hands-on approach, he brings extensive insight to each project.</span></p>

Experienced Product Design Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Sporting Goods industry. Available for Freelance, Contract and Consulting work.

Specialties: Project Management, Design Engineering, Reliability Engineering.
Industries: Footwear, Apparel, Outdoor Equipment, Helmets, Consumer Electronics

Product Design Engineer

Ski Instructor

Technical lead for footwear commercialization programs. Responsible for bringing footwear innovations from concept to commercialization.  Worked with internal teams, domestic and overseas manufactures to ensure quality product integration, testing and commercialization for new footwear product. 

Technical lead for Cushioning Innovation R&D programs. Worked with internal innovation teams and external vendors to conceptualize and prototype innovative cushioning systems through new materials, processes and technologies.

Technology Engineer - Cushioning Innovation

Lead Test and Validation Engineer on Nike+ programs. Led development and execution of reliability testing, wear testing and algorithm test and validation for Nike+ footwear product. Coordinated with Nike+ Product Team, Footwear teams, and overseas manufactures.

Supported inline Nike+ initiatives such as, GPS SportWatch and Nike+ FuelBand, in addition to other internal R&D initiatives.

Directed a team of test analysts to execute test protocols in support of ongoing Nike+ initiatives.

Sr Test and Validation Engineer - Digital Sport

Test Engineer for Global Footwear Testing Lab. Responsible for coordination across departments and external partners to facilitate testing needs. Development and execution of test plans while delivering test results.

Supported Footwear Innovation and R&D initiatives. Conducted testing on new concepts and materials, developed custom test methods and fixtures, facilitated meetings and provided project direction across multiple Innovation teams

Test Engineer - Global Footwear Testing

Worked in the Adidas Quality Department, tested and reported on footwear durability while maintaining test equipment.

Quality Engineer

Worked in conjunction with the Biomechanics Laboratory at Legacy Clinical Research & Technology Center, by designing and prototyping a bicycle helmet concept in combination with a new Angular Impact Mitigation (AIM) drop test method.

Biomechanics Research Assistant

Quality assurance intern for a biomedical implant company

Quality Assurance Intern

Nate Jacobsen is a Product Design Engineer at Jacobsen Consulting LLC in Boise, Idaho.

Nate Jacobsen

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University of Portland