A global team of consultants, with extensive experience in engineering leadership, product management, program management and business management in a wide range of product development environments.

Our Core Team

Gary Hinkle
Founder and Principal Consultant

Before consulting, Gary led teams developing state-of-the-art products at Tektronix, Laird Technologies, PEI/Motorola Solutions and SAIC. His consulting experience includes product development leadership, process improvements, business start-up, training program development, and organizational restructuring. He created Auxilium’s Engineering Leadership Program, led development of the Integrated Delivery Architecture (IDA) and co-founded the Methods for Agile Hardware Development (MAHD) framework.

Phone: 800-577-3528

Leo Quintero
Senior Consultant

Leo is an experienced executive-level leader with repeated success developing innovative products mainly in the PC, communications, and defense industries at Dell, Motorola, Martin Marietta & United Technologies. He has expertise in engineering, product development process, global engineering management, ODM outsourcing, organization design & transformation, program management, and leadership development. His focus includes transforming roles and responsibilities to support more efficient, agile ways of working. Leo co-led development of the Integrated Delivery Architecture (IDA).

Phone: 800-577-3528

Shailesh Patel
Senior Consultant

Shailesh is an executive leader with a reputation for delivering innovative products that solve difficult customer problems. His focus is helping clients develop and execute product strategies to accelerate the front end of product development. With experience in large companies such as Amazon, Newell Rubbermaid, Stryker Medical and DaimlerChrysler, Shailesh has developed deep understanding of effective product development methods to overcome a broad range of challenges. His range of experience enables guidance of client teams to solve challenging customer problems while fostering creativity and accelerating product launches.

Phone: 800-577-3528

Auxilium client projects range from building abilities in key roles to project improvement support to leading enterprise product development transformations.

Auxilium’s Journey

2002 Auxilium Launches with Engineering Leadership Focus

We started with a mission to help product development organizations achieve world-class productivity by guiding technical leaders, project managers and engineers to implement and sustain best practices, with focus on leadership development as a critical element.

2006 NPD Transformations

As we helped teams to achieve increasing productivity, clients became interested in assistance with a structured approach for holistically transforming their product development process and culture. This typically involved transitioning from ad-hoc methodology to a phased approach with continued focus on leadership development.

2010 1st Agile Project

With agile principles and methods becoming preferred for software development, we began applying the principles to help clients achieve productivity benefits for manufactured products. Through refining our approach we discovered that agile is generally a better way-of-working for product development than traditional waterfall methods.

2014 MAHD Framework Launched

After further refinement of our agile approach for manufactured products, we launched the Methods for Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework and published documents to help teams visualize how to apply the framework. Today, Auxilium utilizes MAHD elements to assist with the change management needed for successful agile product development transformations.

2026 Integrated Delivery Architecture (IDA) Support

Auxilium’s Integrated Delivery Architecture (IDA) is a comprehensive, practical and user-friendly system for managing product development, filling important gaps found in typical frameworks.

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