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Description: Establish and constantly evaluate department’s priorities, generating road map to effectively move projects from R&D to product development to manufacturing.Mentor and direct team of 16 specialists, including engineers, designers, and technicians, providing thorough and timely performance reviews to ensure productivity, job growth, and overall success.Determine ongoing staffing needs, leading recruitment efforts to hire exceptional, skilled R&D personnel.Advise board of directors and cataract surgeons, offering systems demonstrations and R&D process presentations, responding to queries while providing utmost professionalism and expertise.Represent R&D team during FDA and CE audit reviews; conduct QA and assess risks, including reviews of all CAPAs and failure investigations, ensuring due diligence and thorough compliance.Perform detailed research, interviewing cataract surgeons and analyzing competitors’ equipment, to fully understand marketplace and doctors’ needs.

Expanded clinical application personnel by 200% in roughly one year, recruiting and hiring top-notch professionals to actively increase market share. Developed training materials and conducted dynamic on-site training sessions for operators and surgeons, ensuring all users could maximize system capabilities while operating system safely and properly.

Effectively guided technical development and career advancement of 6 engineers from various disciplines.Planned and executed complex projects, including creating detailed budgets and equipment development schedules, ensuring solid, central administrative management of all cross-departmental endeavors. Provided productive long-term strategies for development of crucial IOL equipment to test throughput and capacity, ensuring optimal functionality and compliance.Continually evaluated needs, acquiring new metrology capability/equipment in a timely manner.Actively contributed to IOL Pipeline development teams, determining vital testing strategies.Managed relationships with outside suppliers, working closely on equipment development and contract services.

Managed and guided 13 engineers, actively overseeing their technical development and professional growth.Slashed time for drawing releases from 21 to 7 days by implementing process improvement initiative, reducing work duration while ensuring mechanical design excellence. Successfully negotiated, secured, and managed consultant and supplier contracts worth nearly $100,000.Led mechanical and technical development for next generation LASIK system, ensuring sound industrial design and structural integrity.Collaborated with product management, marketing, and sales directors to define vital system requirements.Generated rigorous design and technical development plans, including FMEA and risk mitigation strategies, in accordance with ISO 14971, ISO 9001, ISO 13485 for Medical Devices and QSR.Removed roadblocks to implement practical design transfer process between R&D, engineering, and operations.

Supervised team of 20 software developers within the new product development group, promoting productive collaboration and efficiency.Oversaw, monitored, and coordinated monthly software releases within the new product development group, ensuring timely and productive rollouts. Collaborated with Engineering Managers, Operations, QA, and marketing teams, developing strategies to ensure seamless software releases to internal customers while in the development phase of new product design.Generated software design specifications and their release structure during product development process, meticulously ensuring sufficient detail and accuracy.Coordinated development, testing, integration, and software code reviews, generating project schedules and work breakdown structures to effectively manage processes.Aggressively prevented delayed release of project by successfully leading team through a series of phase gates software releases, ensuring on-time project delivery.

Provided advanced technical direction as Principal Product Systems Engineer for 200mm and 300mm High Current Ion Implanting tool sets.Acted as engineering expert on Inventory Reduction Team, reducing inventory line item on the company balance sheet by 25% within one year.Collaborated on Engineering Tactical Team, providing immediate technical direction resulting in the elimination of two weeks from the tool build and delivery cycle.Effectively advised junior mechanical engineers on GD&T, proper design protocol, data analysis, verification and validation testing.