MakerBot Industries was a young company in 2011, but they were growing fast. In my role as the lead Materials and Processes R&D Engineer, I created new material products that met MakerBot’s design goals and ensured their availability to a rapidly growing customer base. Establishing product development guidelines resulted in a 60% improvement in delivery time from concept to on-the-shelf 3D printing filaments, which was great for the huge expansion of custom MakerBot colors that I designed. Additionally, we added a new product line in sustainable PLA, going from plain PLA filaments, to an entire color spectrum. We improved the consistency of 3D printing on MakerBot Replicators by developing manufacturing techniques in a melt extrusion lab, which led to higher resolution and more reliable printing.