Alexander Gil Email & Phone Number

• Project Leader overseeing multiple design team to ensure the projects are well designed, timely and cost effective.• Head of the Distal Elbow Set design team which include Proximal Ulna Plates, Interal Joint Stabilizer, Align Radial Head, Protean Fragment Plates, and Reduct Headless compression screw. • Lead in product develop of the Humerus Fixation Set which includes Distal Humerus plates and Midshaft Humerus plates.• Develop innovated concepts including FreeFix Slots and Ti-beam technology via iterative process of design, evaluations, data collections and modifcation.• Collaborate with marketing team, users (doctors), manufacturing and quality in all phases of the development process.

• Manage all Skeletal Dynamics Concept Realization employees, including programmers, machinists, and technicians. • Ensure all work order tickets are completed on time and to specification • Achieve financial objectives by assisting in the preparation of the budget, scheduling expenditures, and managing project budgets, and initiating corrective actions.• Manage capital projects, including development of equipment specification, coordination of equipment runoffs, installation of equipment, and management of outside contractors.• Develop methods, tooling, and techniques to continuously reduce the time and effort involved in setting-up, changing over and operations of manufacturing equipment.• Modify manufacturing processes for safety improvement, quality improvement, cost reduction, or design changes.• Review, recommend and coordinate Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Preventive Maintenance (PM), Proactive Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance Programs to prevent equipment failures and maximize machinery uptime.• Manage outside contractors involved in process/equipment improvement and repairs.• Work with the engineers and technicians to assure manufacturability of orthopedic surgical instruments, implants, and test fixture designs.• Oversee the selection and procurement of necessary materials and tools to support shop functions.• Provides basic machining and metalworking training and mentorship to less skilled employees.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Promoted from R&D engineer I, II and III.• Manage multiple concurrent projects. Develop new products such as Distal Humerus Plates, Proximal Ulna Plate, Radial Head Plate, Scaphoid Lunate Plate (Protean) and other total joint arthroplasty. • Perform mechanical tests to collect and analyze data for design development and FDA submission. Performed ASTM F382, 4-point bend testing of bone plates to approve proximal ulna plate. Performed ASTM F543, testing for multiple lines of screws. Performed FEA analysis to design a stress gradient plate. Helped design and perform a triceps avulsion test to develop specification for the Proximal Ulna Plate. • Modify designs and re-test throughout project development for continuous improvement. Improved clamping force of IJS by 5 times in order to create a better construct.• Visit vendors to discuss design methods, inspection procedures and state-of-the-art technology. • Work hand in hand with suppliers to design for manufacturability, increase machine efficiency, and improve device quality. Lowered the price of Proximal Ulna plate by 50% by redesign with DFM features. Designed additional features to plates improve the process capabilities through inspection. Develop new tools in order to lower the time going through receiving inspection. • Design using Solidworks CAD software to create and edit complex solid and surface geometry, including stylish curve-continuous (C2) surfaces. Design using power surfacing to create prototype organic shapes such as articulation surfaces. Design multiple screws including advance features such as variable helix.• Perform cadaveric testing to develop clinical relavance for the FDA.• Convert ideas into intellectual properties. Patents US10617454B2, US20210128207A1, US10251757B2• Manage 3D printer including periodic maintenance, material changes, troubleshoot.• Manage scheduling for machine shop. Working with 4 programmers, 10+ engineers and 4 machines.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Assists design engineers with design control activities and documentation including writing protocols, test reports, and other design control documentation.• Performs first article Inspection, establishing better inspections methods while given feedback on part drawings.• Execute design verification and validation protocols, assist in the design and manufacture of devices.• Assists in the implementing and improving the Quality Management System (QMS).• Performs risk analysis for surgical methods, product design, and manufacturing processes.• Recommends statistical sampling plans and is the subject matter expert for statistical techniques and analysis.• Designs, develops and validates test methods and tools.• Uses systematic problem solving and variation reduction skills to improve products and processes.• Identifies, investigates and determines the disposition of non-conforming products and processes.• Determines inspection acceptance criteria based on desired risk profiles and confidence intervals.• Participates in internal and external audits.• Installs systems and indicators to monitor and report on QMS trends (CAPA, Training, etc.).• Other duties as may be assigned or requested.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Conducted site surveys, prepared load calculations and drew engineering plans utilizing computer aided design software Google SketchUp 8 & AutoCad. • Submitted plans for city inspectors and obtain approval for work permits. • Serviced and install HVAC systems such as air units, condensers, air handlers, chillers, coolers, duct systems and A/C drainage's.

Miami Beach, Fl

• Drew plan layout, surveys, reviews, blue print edits for permitting process. • Used verbals and communicative skills to expedited plans through city hall.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Received the 9th McNair cohort fellowship grant for research regarding the effects of dimples on aerodynamics using computation fluid dynamics.• Analyzed the flow patterns and coefficient of drag of multiple structures through ANSYS and SolidWorks Flow Simulation finite element analysis programs.• Tested physical models on an ELD Inc. wind tunnel to compare data theoretical data and experimental values.• Published paper in the McNair Scientific Journal.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted engineering faculty as well as graduate students in enhancing USC’s existing iCampus program, a geospatial social networking web-portal created for the USC community.• Programmed iCampus applications on the Android platform.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering, 3.6

Activities and Societies: FIU Cycling - Track CoordinatorGraduate with Honors Cum Laude Aerospace Engineering Minor - Flight Mechanics.

Mechanical Engineering