Ignacio Mendez is an operations leader with over three years in formal managerial roles and more than two decades building and scaling prototyping and model-shop capabilities across industry-leading design firms. At Google he transformed a machine shop into the company’s largest prototyping facility, supporting 100+ teams and enabling cross-disciplinary work from industrial design to soft goods. His background at IDEO and Radius reflects deep hands-on expertise in CNC, model making and lab design, plus a track record of bridging prototyping with manufacturing. Ignacio combines craft-level technical knowledge with operational leadership, mentoring diverse teams of machinists, fabricators and designers to accelerate product development. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s known for turning workshop constraints into strategic advantages that speed iteration and reduce time to manufacturable designs.
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