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Greenville, South Carolina, Us

Medpoint provides medical device, diagnostic, and biopharma clients with services actively supporting domestic and international quality assurance, regulatory affairs, clinical affairs, technical engineering, and business consulting. Our Medpoint team supports a diverse portfolio of companies including the largest global healthcare manufacturers and early-stage medtech startups. Medpoint professional quality auditors are located across the globe to provide onsite quality audits of your entire supply chain, further ensuring the safety and effectiveness of your product manufacturing at every step of the process.

Balaton, Minnesota, Us

Iterro Life Sciences produces the trū® Chitosan branded line of premium chitosan for topical and internal medical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic applications. The trū Chitosan products are produced in a US FDA-registered and ISO9001:2015 certified facility under GMP and conform to US Pharmacopeia (USP) specifications.

Clemson, Sc, Us

Adjunct professor and visiting lecturer teaching semester-long courses on "Medical Device Commercialization" in the Department of Bioengineering; "Technology & Innovation Management" and "Strategic Management" in the School of Business MBA program. Provide hands-on training with functional business disciplines while incorporating innovative entrepreneurial principles including business model canvas, design thinking and lean startup methodology.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Tsuracor provides product innovation, operations efficiency, and business strategy consulting services with focus on consumer, industrial, and medical device industries. Expert proficiency in technology, market, and financial due diligence; generation of technology or business marketing package to target strategic partners and investors; entrepreneurial startup planning and operations; translating early-stage technology into viable products through advanced engineering, prototyping, and our network of manufacturing resources; and continuous process improvement of supply chain or internal operations.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

MacuLogix leverages the science of functional dark adaptation to help eliminate preventable blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration. Working across the executive team, managed product lifecycle and evaluated market dynamics to formulate a detailed launch strategy for a groundbreaking head-wearable ophthalmic instrument driven by AI-powered process automation. Planned and executed the manufacturing launch CapEx and OpEx budgets to build out the necessary infrastructure, team, and supply chain to support production and delivery of the next-generation device. Generated a five-year technology roadmap to prioritize funding for innovation growth initiatives. Applied optics engineering principles to shrink a precision optics package by 12x while maintaining equivalence. Managed the intellectual property portfolio including licenses and new patent and trademark applications.

Strataca Systems is a medical device company focused on developing innovative minimally invasive solutions to revolutionize the management of renal care. Completed an advanced fluid dynamics engineering analysis to incorporate novel design features enhancing product safety and efficacy that resulted in additional patent applications. Coordinated clinical trial design and contractual agreements between Cleveland Clinic physicians and the contract research organization.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Multitasking leader overseeing engineering R&D, manufacturing, service operations, pricing, human resources, distribution, financial forecasting and strategy to drive company growth. Served in CFO role to generate and diligently manage against detailed annual operating budgets exceeding $1.5 million. Established a network of 15 raw material suppliers and contract manufacturers necessary to produce kitted assemblies of Kiyatec's novel 3D cell culture labware and accessories.

Greenville, Sc, Us

Inventor of a patented 3D cell culture technology with broad applicability to the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. Developed the commercialization plan and actively pursued seed capital through investment pitches and non-dilutive grant mechanisms.

West Lafayette, In, Us

A Cook Medical company focused on early-stage research and development to translate technologies into commercially-viable medical devices. Strategy-oriented technology innovator delivering multiple intellectual property disclosures and device prototypes resulting in a robust and diverse patent portfolio and technology pipeline.

Davidson, North Carolina, Us

Reporting to the VP of Global Operations, worked with multiple international and domestic facilities on special projects including capital restructuring, facility consolidations, and translating sales forecasts to production volumes. Extensive travel in Brazil as part of a strategic exercise to determine facility relocation while minimizing capital requirements for transition and start-up. Completed a thorough operational and financial assessment of Chinese and domestic manufacturing facilities to model options encompassing a $2.4 million capitalization and corporate restructuring. Incorporated site-specific operational data, foreign currency exchange, import-export constraints, and macroeconomic trends to determine the most strategic path forward.

Michigan City, Indiana, Us

Completed a two-year management training program including six-month rotations through product design, automated manufacturing design, technical sales and production management with emphasis on product/process improvement. Supervised a stamping facility with 25 production personnel and managed daily work flow, MRP and inventory practices to improve cost-based financial metrics and on-time delivery.

Ph.D., Bioengineering

Mba, Business Management

Bs, Mechanical Engineering