Christopher Lewis, Phd Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Key Responsibilities:Responsible for Basic Business Unit Scorecard Sales revenue Market share and growth (1-5 year windows) Contribution marginCT Solutions Strategy and Execution Product roadmaps and upstream marketing R&D and total product life cycle management Project prioritization and investment decisions Innovation and NPI.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Expanded OEM CT components product offerings Lead and managed the expansion of internal teams to include new product offeringsExpanded the number of OEM partners we are working with to expand customer baseExpanded current product portfolio with addition product platforms

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Manage and lead 18+ engineering professionals in developing new technologies and new products for x-ray tubes used in the CT market.- Cultivate and maintain relationships with customer technical and business teams.- Set development priorities, build R&D teams, and manage a multi-million dollar budget.- Collaborate across other engineering and operations.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

 Managed the development of a new anode end grounded (AEG) CT platform  Successfully managed a cross-functional business team and introduced a revised and re-tooled the product development process, documentation, and tools to standardize product development, improve time to market, and improve initial quality of x-ray tubes entering the market. Lead.

Provo, Utah

 Managed and mentored four senior-level (Capstone) student design teams at BYU. Molybdenum and copper chip removal process for Varian Medical Systems. One-way valve for a medical device used in angioplasty procedures for Merit Medical Systems, Inc.  12’ x 2’ x 1’ processing table for friction stir welding research at Brigham Young University. .

Greater Salt Lake City Area

 Failure analysis and product redesign for a polycarbonate rotator assembly to improve the design, manufacture, assembly, aging, and performance capabilities with 90% reduction in field failures. Designed, built, and tested a semi-automated CO2 laser soldering system minimizing operator error and increasing throughput.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Dissertation: Development of a Numerical simulation tool for modeling a DC arc discharge in a liquid dielectric media

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: ”Quantifying the Effects of Aging on the Mechanical Properties of Medical Grade Polycarbonate and UV Cured Adhesives”

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

1st Place, ASME Student Manufacturing Design Competition 2003 (paper and oral presentation)