My work experience has primarily involved the design, development and manufacture of medical devices, scientific equipment and consumer & industrial products. Addressing form, function, fit & finish, cost, and manufacturability, I’ve work closely with manufacturing engineering, R&D, quality and production, taking products from conceptualization and prototyping through to technical definition and market release.
I’m familiar with a wide range of materials and manufacturing processes and am quite comfortable in a machine shop with hands-on fabrication. While experienced in the details of creating CAD models and drawings, applying tolerance analysis, GD&T, defining & validating processes etc., my ability to think outside the box and bring a creative approach to problem solving is a strong point. Currently I’m employed at a medical Device Startup in an automation team designing tooling and equipment to automate manual assembly processes. Below are descriptions & links to some of my work at previous companies.
At Sight Sciences I supported new product introduction and volume production of ophthalmic medical device products, implementing design & process improvements. Activities here included tool & fixture design, developing methods for shape-forming fPCBA components, the design and implementation of production test equipment for fPCBA level and assembled electronic devices, designing thermo-formed tray systems for final product packaging, and managing relationships with suppliers and external production partners.
As an R&D Engineer at Benvenue Medical I was responsible for the design and development of re-usable surgical instruments used in minimally invasive orthopedic spine procedures. Responsibilities included designing new surgical instruments, ensuring products designed met customer and manufacturability requirements, interfacing with suppliers and customers (physicians), and assisting manufacturing with design & development of production tooling.
As a Mechanical Design / Manufacturing Engineer at Access Closure (archived site, acquired) I worked on the development of cardiac catheter devices and related manufacturing tooling and processes. In my time there I designed and implemented tooling for injection molding, UV bond, vacuum processing [pdf], assembly and inspection processes. Co-inventor on patent WO2017120187A1 for a vascular closure apparatus.
While employed at Onda I helped with the design for manufacture of ultrasound equipment, for example this Radiation Force Balance used for taking power measurements of ultrasound medical devices. Manufacturable design developed from a working prototype, modeled in SolidWorks.
While at the design consulting firm MOTO I did mechanical design work for a variety of clients. Some examples are a system of interlocking modular plastic dividers, sheet-metal parts and light-pipes for an automated Medication Dispensing Cabinet, and an enclosure for a Phone Router [pdf], integrating a PCB with connectors & LED indicators into an injection molded enclosure. Modeled in Pro-E.
At Wyatt Technology I resolved optical, thermal and mechanical design challenges in the manufacture of laser light-scattering scientific equipment used for macromolecular and particle characterization, improving performance, usability and lowering cost. I re-designed a liquid Laser Flow Cell [pdf] manifold system used in laser light scattering equipment, co-inventor on patent # 5,404,217.
At Vistek I was involved with the mechanical design of equipment used in arthroscopic surgical procedures, such as this Surgical Video Camera. This was back when video cameras were not so compact, so we repackaged a CCD video camera into a handheld device and control box, re-integrating electronic & optical assemblies. Drawings [pdf] modeled in AutoCad.