{"id":3211,"date":"2023-12-13T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actuationlab.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T14:20:39","slug":"kevin-egan-joins-actuation-lab-as-engineering-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actuationlab.com\/kevin-egan-joins-actuation-lab-as-engineering-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Egan joins Actuation Lab as Engineering Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big welcome to our latest recruit,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kevin-egan-68014728\/\" data-attribute-index=\"0\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Kevin Egan<\/a>\u00a0who joined us last month in an Engineering Manager role. As the team (and products) have grown in size, expanding the team that oversees the wider engineering activities has become of critical importance to the company. In fact, product size has grown so much that we felt we couldn&#8217;t safely perform the trademark\u00a0Actuation Lab\u00a0new employee item handover photo, so here our CTO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michaeldicker\/\" data-attribute-index=\"4\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\">Michael Dicker<\/a>\u00a0has opted for a bench based &#8220;handover&#8221; of one of our valve pressure bodies to Kev.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin comes to us with the right mix of experience in both large engineering companies and smaller startups, ideally positioning himself to add value at this stage of our company growth. 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