Mike Rainone
Founder
PCD Works
Mike Rainone is founder and Vice President of PCDworks, Inc. a full service product design and development company that specializes in solving difficult technology problems and creating breakthrough product innovation. PCDworks offers clients a full range of services including creative problem solving, technology research and integration, product design, engineering, prototyping and testing. As the technical leader of PCDworks, Rainone oversees simultaneous development projects, and is the primary inventor on multiple new technologies and products each year.
While initially majoring in physics, Rainone received a B.S. and M.S. in Clinical Psychology, and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Texas. He served as a graduate fellow in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Texas, and held a Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Psychology at Texas Christian University. Early in his career Rainone taught subjects as diverse as management and organizational behavior, research methods and architectural design. While practicing architecture in the Detroit area Rainone was invited to teach industrial design at the College for Creative Studies and moved into new product development after joining an industrial design firm in the area.
With strong expertise in the process of product development, a wide range of technical knowledge, and training in cognitive deconstruction of problems during development processes, Rainone has been a creative force in the development of new products for more that forty companies in the US and Europe, including Sunbeam; Kellogg’s; Avery Denison; Ingersoll-Rand; Kimberly Clark; Stanley tools; Baker Oil Tools and the U.S. Navy. In addition, Rainone holds multiple product patents; including a non-laser based bar code reader, a vacuum assisted venous drainage cardiopulmonary bypass unit, an optically based medical device used to identify infections, in vivo and numerous other products which are proprietary to the various clients.
Rainone attributes much of his success to his unusual pedigree. Trained as a psychologist to keep digging for answers, he has applied that same technique to new product problem solving and has a reputation for “cracking the code” on difficult technology issues. He currently leads ideation and product development workshops at the PCDworks campus and is a featured columnist in Product Design and Development magazine.
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