Helping Consumer Brands Build Better Products

I help consumer product companies fix recurring quality problems, get products manufactured right, and build systems their teams actually use — from first sample through full production.

Kolette Fabbioli — 12 years in quality, manufacturing, and product development, including eight scaling those functions at Away.

Solving Complex Product & Manufacturing Challenges

I've spent more than a decade helping consumer product teams solve the challenges that stand between a great idea and a successful product — from recurring quality failures and supplier performance to packaging optimization and commercialization.

I bring hands-on leadership experience across Quality, Manufacturing, Packaging, Personalization, and Product Development, working alongside teams to build practical systems, improve supplier performance, and solve problems that can be implemented, measured, and sustained.

I can help with:

  • Quality Systems & Process Improvement

  • Product Testing & Compliance

  • Manufacturing & Supplier Performance

  • Fractional Manufacturing & Quality Leadership

  • Returns Analysis & Continuous Improvement

  • Packaging Development & Optimization

  • Personalization & Operational Scaling

  • Product Development & Commercialization

Featured Case Study

Turning Warranty Claims Into Product Improvements

Customer returns often contain some of the most valuable product intelligence a company has — but only if the data is structured in a way that can be analyzed.

I designed and implemented an RMA data system that transformed thousands of warranty claims into actionable engineering insights, helping prioritize product improvements, testing, and supplier investigations for years to come.

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Five-stage flow diagram: warranty claims, structured taxonomy, actionable data, product insights, product improvements.

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