Alec Cunningham Email & Phone Number

Warsaw, Indiana, United States

• New product test method development
• Wrote test protocols for Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and worked with external consultant for execution
• Assisted in establishing design controls for various new systems
• Data aggregation for legacy products

Purdue

Established this organization to foster student interest in intellectual property as well as to associate students with the field at a high level via events, speakers, and school visitations.

Worked with a professor form the Indiana University Center for Intellectual Property Research (CIPR) to analyze amount of oral testimony needed to defeat patent novelty; also studied the origins of indirect patent infringement.

Warsaw, Indiana

• Created a validated rework process for Porous Plasma Spray which included: - Technical research of biocompatible substrate materials and rework processes - Wrote technical memorandums and rationalizations - Created.
• Worked autonomously. Given high level goal at the beginning of the term and executed the project independently

• Facilitated tibia tray fixation test method development
• Evaluated the affects surface finish on taper efficacy for implants
• Instrumentation design & rapid prototyping
• Wrote test protocols
• Acted as recruiter at Purdue’s Industrial Roundtable
• Worked heavily with remote team members (including international)

• Established compatibility between analogous instrumentation for legacy Zimmer and Biomet orthopedic systems
• Created feature criticality assessments for outsourced instrumentation manufacturing
• Implant concept rapid prototyping
• Quality hold assessments & risk analysis

Manufactured patient specific lenses for ophthalmic correction