Hannah McKenney

Hannah McKenney has a diverse work experience, beginning with their role as Product Design Engineer at The Helping Hand Project, Inc. in 2015. Here, they designed prosthetic hands for children with hand abnormalities using Solidworks, laser cutting and 3D printing. Hannah was later appointed a design consultant for all design groups and advised them on their design process. In 2017, they worked as an Industrial Design Intern at Better Future Factory, where they designed a color sensing device to be used in low resource settings. In 2018, they held three roles: Co-Founder, VP of Product at Starling Medical, Co-Founder, Director of R&D at Starling Medical, and Process Development Engineer Intern at Boston Scientific. At Starling Medical, they implemented the biodesign process to develop a non-surgical solution to eliminate incontinence and maintain low bladder pressure in pediatric neurogenic bladder patients. At Boston Scientific, they worked on three projects related to new products. In 2019, they took on the role of Surgical Innovation Program Manager at MD Anderson Cancer Center, guiding medical device and digital health inventions of MD Anderson Cancer Center surgeons and physicians through ethnographic research, problem definition, concept generation/selection, market analysis, product design, bench top testing and preclinical/clinical studies. Hannah also reviewed invention disclosure reports and provisioned patents for submission to the institutional Office of Technology & Commercialisation. In 2018, they were a Teaching Assistant for Engineering Senior Capstone at Rice University and a R&D Engineer Co-op at Johnson & Johnson. Lastly, in 2016, they were a Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering Researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they were first author on the research abstract presented at the American Society of Biomechanics and the Human Movement Science Conference. In 2022, they will take on the role of Pre-Product R&D Engineer II at Medtronic.

Hannah McKenney attended Y Combinator for their W22 program. Hannah then went on to obtain a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2014 to 2018. Following that, they earned a Masters of Engineering in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Rice University from 2018 to 2019.