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United States

Boston, Ma, Us

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Watertown, Massachusetts, Us

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Lead the Sustaining Engineering team through submissions to FDA and international regulatory agencies. + Mentored younger engineers in product design and development, risk management, and PLC programming.

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Debuged software, prepared detailed mechanical drawings, and diagnosed mechanical problems for PLC-based manufacturing equipment.+ Mentored engineering interns through complex engineering problem solving a fast-paced yet highly regulated medical device R&D environment+ Lead root cause investigations for implantable medical device failure modes.+ Performed statistical analyses in Minitab including various reliability, SPC, and nonlinear regression techniques+ Received corporate award for exemplary commitment to data-driven decision making and scientific validation.+ Active member of safety committee

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Designed manufacturing equipment and processes for new product introduction.+ Coordinated production staff through process validation and design verification activities.+ Principal contributor to PFMEA for Class III implantable medical device+ Managed and mentored several engineering interns in CAD, literature research, electro-mechanical systems, and process validations.+ Contributed to design phase activities and assembly line planning for a newly constructed ISO Class 8 clean room facility

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Designed manufacturing equipment and processes for rapid scale-up and quality improvement in a medical device manufacturing system.+ Lead design of a novel manufacturing process project from concept phase through detailed design, process development, production staff training, and process validation and design verification.+ Authored PFMEA, process development report,s and process validation protocols.

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Researched and developed specifications for implantable medical device components+ Performed design verification testing

Natick, Ma, Us

I helped solve problems in manufacturing and product development for Allurion. Designed and executed experiments investigating fatigue life intergastric balloons in harsh environments. Designed and built mechanical fixtures to facilitate manufacturing and product testing. Developed a microcontroller (Arduino) device to monitor experimental equipment.

The Bike Coop is a student-run cooperative bicycle repair business on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. As a co-manager, I take part in all levels of the day-to-day operation of the business, though with a focus on bicycle repairs, shop organization, hiring and training.

Natick, Ma, Us

+ Designed and built equipment for testing and production of an intragastric balloon system, as well as designing and conducting experiments for testing and development of that product.

Restoration, repair, and renovation woodworking, plus all areas of building repair and maintenance. My work included a wide variety of activities, including deck building, restoring completely rotten sections of ornate buildings, milling custom mouldings, masonry repair, roofing, plumping and electrical repairs, landscaping to manage rainwater and protect a ground-water-damaged building we repaired, operating a bobcat skid-steer loader, painting, excavation and foundation work, etc..

Performed all types of bicycle repair, and assembled new bikes. Sold and rented bikes, and handled all areas of customer service required in a busy retail and repair shop.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Mechanical Engineering