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Santa Maria, Ca, Us

Goleta, Ca, Us

Goleta, Ca, Us

Recruited to advance research and development of best-in-class microfluidic cell sorter technology. Head the company strategy, lead manufacturing, expand sales channels, and build strategic partnerships. • Achieved 30% instrument sales increase within 2 years• Boosted sub-assembly manufacturing by 400% over 4 years by revamping multi-shift production operation to improve efficiency – without adding personnel• Drove release of dramatically revamped instrument software, resulting in market expansion into major flow core market, 20% reduction in training requirements • Built strategic customer partnerships worth over $15M• Spearheaded direct customer and sales engagement to drive product development. Paid beta customer relationships of over $5M• Inventor on 9 new patent applications• Performed $500K TI upgrade of manufacturing, lab, and office spaces• Reorganized and retained stellar team of scientists and engineers from diverse, international backgrounds

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

Appointed to orchestrate the successful sale of Micralyne, Inc. • Conducted sell-side research and analysis on final round of 4 major buyers• Represented Micralyne during direct buyer negotiations with Skyworks, Teledyne DALSA, and Silex• Maintained revenue and even increased profitability 10% during ongoing negotiations• Engaged Teledyne DALSA for final successful M&A

• Recruited to expand international market presence and drive best practices in product engineering to improve profitability. • Negotiated successful contracts for 35% of company revenue• Won contracts worth over $10M with Bose, Ouster (LIDAR), Sanvita, 908 Devices, and SQZ Biotch • Increased development project to production transfer rate by 100% by revamping the product maturation system & improving Design for Manufacturability (DFM)

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• Guided technical and business development for IMT’s 6 largest accounts • Lead technical contributor on over a dozen production programs• Reported to Board of Directors on customer status, internal initiatives & technical advances• Managed 12 advanced engineers in process development & product engineering o Created advanced semiconductor fabrication techniques in ion milling, DRIE etching, and PVD systemso Enabled statistical process control (SPC) on all process moduleso Conducted FMEA & root cause analysis to support manufacturing and development (8D, Ishikawa)

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• Directed team to transfer 8 development programs to production, including process re-engineering for manufacturing and implementation of manufacturing controls (SPC) • Managed business and technical relationship for all production customers• Negotiated $3M IP sale with Miltenyi Biotec• Pioneered a company-wide Operational Excellence training program, achieved a 15% decrease in scrap rate

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• In control of production programs that brought in 50% of production revenue• Controlled chip process qualification and the entire Ramp to Production process; implemented all SPC/SQC systems and organized continuous product improvement initiatives

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• Principal Investigator, $6M US Army Medical Command (DoD) development grant for IMT’s Rare Cell Purification System (RCPS)• Principal designer, process engineer, and program manager of cell purification system• Improved process manufacturability and yields from ~10% to over 80%• Conceived, patented, and licensed MEMS-enabled ultra-high-speed sorting of human cells• Patents enabled successful business spin-out of microfluidic cell sorter technology

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

• Principal Investigator, $5M DARPA grant and subsequent $2.5M US Army Medical Command grant• Devised novel MEMS chips using CAD (SolidWorks, AutoCAD) and FEA (ANSYS), resulting in 4 patents• Trained personnel on design, fabrication, and experimental techniques

• Technical design, business, and marketing services for development of microscale systems• Consulting engagements with 7 diverse companies in diverse markets: fuel cell batteries, genomic sequencing, biological cell analysis and electronics cooling applications

• Increased sales leads 2x; redesigned marketing of biotechnology software • Created worldwide product recognition by presentations at seminars and conferences• Trained personnel on the use, support, and sale of biotech and microfluidics software tools

• Expert technical analysis and design of MEMS systems as part of professional services, benchmarking, and research • CAD design and FEM/CFD analysis for product design and development

 Expert user of Fluent’s Icepak computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program for design and development of cooling solutions at the IC chip, PC board, and system level; also used Fluent UNS for simulations of LPCVD and other semiconductor processing applications One of two sales engineers for the west coast. Won conversion sales at Apple, Intel, Motorola, HP, and Qualcomm, as well as bringing in half of all west coast Icepak revenue

• Directed development projects for optimal market positioning for a $10M company supplying equipment and services to the electric power utility industry• Managed the development of acoustic partial discharge detection sensors and sensing technologies, including patent application and maintenance• Directed two EPRI-funded transformer research projects o Managed corporate involvement in research and development projects conducted in government laboratories and coordinated with industrial partners and utility customers o Conducted field tests, trained field personnel, and performed all aspects of project and contract management• Designed and constructed field hardened high speed, high sensitivity light sensors to examine electrical partial discharge within large power transformers

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History And Sociology Of Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering