A unique weight loss device which not only provides a food displacement mass, but limits intake based on a cyclic valve formed at the entry of the pylorus. While working at Baronova, I developed new product designs and improved existing product.

Currently working with the Holos system, a real-time wavefront aberrometer used during eye surgery.

Supported R&D to provide enhanced electrical and mechanical designs for improved product performance, streamline manufacturing and reduce costs of a hand-held insulin pump system with disposable gear-train section.- Supported customer service and manufacturing with rapid execution of numerous FMEA's providing reports with root cause and recommendation for practical solutions. - Designed an automatically retractable needle system to pull cartridge plunger toward pumps piston to… Show more Supported R&D to provide enhanced electrical and mechanical designs for improved product performance, streamline manufacturing and reduce costs of a hand-held insulin pump system with disposable gear-train section.- Supported customer service and manufacturing with rapid execution of numerous FMEA's providing reports with root cause and recommendation for practical solutions. - Designed an automatically retractable needle system to pull cartridge plunger toward pumps piston to improve delivery accuracy and insure safety at a low cost.- Designed product keypad with excellent aesthetics and tactile response. Innovative design met IPX7 requirements with minimal edge barrier. Passed ±30KV ESD using thick PET layer for punch through and reduction of internal layering for edge penetration. Managed supplier during the transfer of design from supplier to in-house.- Designed fixtures for: tooth wheel inspection, pigtail buckling, pump assembly, impact detector, drop test, gear cover installation, disc assembly hand tools, control module adhesive cure, disc heat staking, flex circuit bending fixture, multi-indicator tubing receptacle go-no go and misc. fixtures for fabrication and machining.- Re-designed battery compartment for spring contact fully meeting BAJ battery requirements.- Solved plastic flexible lead screw accuracy issues using advanced methods and equipment such as Leitz microtome part comparison and photo comparison measurement.- Wrote custom windows based software to control pump cycle to characterize pumps having low efficiency. Real-time plotting and Excel data file creation.- Created molded press-in part from Dupont Hytrel to help reduce pump cycling noise.- Developed custom latching impact detector capable of detection when power is not available.- Lead three R&D mechanical engineers and a summer intern in projects involving mold changes, fixtures and impact tests. Show less