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AVID Products Inc.

The FISHBONE breakaway adapter solves the expensive problem of 3.5mm audio pins breaking off inside jacks on electronic devices.

After seeing countless RMA’d headphones with broken 3.5mm audi pins, a research inquiry revealed that young students frequently strained headphone cords to the point of pin failure, especially during learning sessions and testing. The average cost of a pin removal and jack repair is about $70, requires specialist tools and training to execute, and the offsite service usually takes weeks.

In 2017, the FISHBONE was awarded Best in Show at the annual International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, Texas. In excess of ten million copies have been sold since launch.

I designed, prototyped, tested, and engineered the FISHBONE from conception to market launch. Manufacturing planning also fell under my purview and resulted in closely working- on location- with the production factory in Guangdong, China to roll the FISHBONE. Total time from conception to market was less than 4 months.