Neal Andrews and Steve Cooper met while working as engineers for Hewlett-Packard. In 2000 they launched their own firm. Today Andrews-Cooper has offices in Tigard, McMinnville, and Corvallis, Oregon. More than 20 engineers provide product design for companies such as Phillips Medical, Hewlett-Packard, HeartStream, Trimble, Grass Valley, Welch-Allyn, HemCon Medical Technologies and Upsite Technologies.
The engineers at Andrews-Cooper have more than 120 years experience in the product design industry, and have completed the design cycle with more than 35 products.
Neal Andrews
Co-founder and senior designer, has over 20 years of experience in project management, concept generation and innovative product design. His materials and process knowledge allow him to address demands for fast track design, ruggedness, water-resistance, low-manufacturing costs, and more. Product accomplishments include defibrillator design, ink jet print head test systems, tape backup, and other electronic products. Neal has over 20 patents to his credit for unique enclosures and product performance testers. He is a graduate of Oregon State University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
Steve Cooper
Co-founder of Andrews-Cooper, has 25 years of design and management experience. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and worked for Bell Laboratories in Naperville Illinois before joining Hewlett Packard. He co-founded Andrews-Cooper in March of 2000. Steve has an analytical leaning, with competencies in thermal, vibration and stress analysis and applies these skills to both tooling automation and product design. He specializes in portable, rugged, water-proof product creation employing up-front strategic planning and rapid prototyping to quickly create low-cost, straight-forward designs.
Joe Harsany
Portland Regional Manager, has more than ten years of experience in mechanical engineering and design. Since joining Andrews-Cooper in 2006, he has lead a team of six multi-discipline engineers and has lead business development efforts for the product design division. His design experience includes printer mechanisms, plastic parts, electronics packaging, and automation tool design. Joe holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University.