About Me

The Engineer Accelerator is a combination of my work as an independent consultant and as a teacher.

I have been an independent product management consultant for the last 15 years. I specialize helping companies and individuals define the requirements and architecture of their product. Through my experience developing products for medical, industrial, and consumer products I have seen first hand what it takes to be a successful engineer

I have created training programs and materials for Lam Research, Tempo Automation and Fictiv among others. I was a co-organizer for Make:SF andI have created classes for Workshop Weekend including The 5X5 Badge Explained, System Thinking, the Many Ways to Blink labs, and the state machine based Over Temperature Alarm.

I have the work experience to know what skills are required to make projects successful and I have the teaching experience to know how to present these complex and sometimes subtle skills in a learnable way.

Malcolm Knapp

Berkeley, CA