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My experience and proven track record in the product design and development field is quite extensive ranging from concept development and IP to design to prototyping to production in the medical products, surgical devices (over 48 US patents granted, over 10 pending, over 40 international patents granted), over 100 injection molds, IQ/OQ/PQ cost savings generated of over $6,000.000.00, consumer electronics, electronics packaging, and many other fields. I greatly enjoy the pace, the challenge and leading the successful completion of innovative, high quality, rapid and low cost product development. In brief, my experience includes:• Over 30 years of productive, high quality, rapid, low cost (some passions of mine with the ability and vision to achieve it) engineering, design, product development, manufacturing and production engineering• I am leading a 45-tool production injection molding, design, quality improvement, cost reduction and complete IQ/OQ/PQ validation project with 3 strategic suppliers, with a projected savings of over $5,000.000.00.• From consumer electronics (portable and desk top PC peripherals) to surgical devices (over 48 US patents granted, over 10 pending, over 40 international patents granted)• A project lead from concept to production at Abbott was the engineering and design efforts on a new medical / consumer product, (a blood glucose meter) - production tooled in Singapore with a contract manufacture (Benchmark) in Thailand. Tooling budget of over $600K. Three million units shipped in the second year.Specialties: • Project Management/Leadership - concept to production• Critical Design, Engineering, Materials and Manufacturing Issues• Design for Injection Molding (DFIM) IQ/OQ/PQ• Product Enhancement, Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)• Material and Component Selections and Applications• Vendor Sourcing, Identification, Selection and Management• Design Inputs, Requirements Specifications, Verification, Validation and testing requirements• Proven Intellectual Property Generation track record
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Principal Engineer, Endovascular RoboticsSiemens HealthineersActon, Ma, Us
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Retired / ConsultingRetired / Product Dynamics Oct 2023 - PresentAfter an amazing career, I am retired!I look forward to spending more time with family and friends, traveling the US and seeing the world, reading some good books, volunteering in the community, taking many good hikes and runs, working on a few hobbies, and many other things including part-time consulting for the right project .Thank you to all of the co-workers, management, suppliers, companies and teams I have worked with including:- Most recently Corindus / Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics (EVR) and helping build the future of surgical robotics- Boston Scientific and Endovations (Single Use Colonoscope) & DDES (Direct Drive Endoscopic Surgery) projects and over 45 granted US patents- Abbott Labs / MediSense and over 3 MM Precision Xceed blood glucose meters shipped in the second year- VST and consumer electronics for Apple, IBM and others and our own product line- Arthur D. Little and many innovative consulting projects- US Surgical and helping start the minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery revolution- Technicon, Pitney Bowes, and many consulting projects- And wonderful and productive business travel for R&D & operations throughout the US and international travel to Singapore, Thailand, Costa Rica, Ireland, Germany & Canada
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Principal Engineer, Endovascular RoboticsSiemens Healthineers Sep 2022 - Oct 2023Forchheim, DeI am leading a 45-tool production injection molding, design, quality improvement, cost reduction and complete IQ/OQ/PQ validation project with 3 strategic suppliers, with a projected savings of over $5,000.000.00. Having already led the completion of 10 fully validated production tools, including 2-shot and over-molded tooling, 5 gears and a luer and numerus other design & quality improvement, cost reduction projects saving over $1,000,000.00 and over 30 other molds.
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Principal EngineerCorindus Vascular Robotics, A Siemens Healthineers Company Sep 2014 - Sep 2022The CorPath System is the first FDA cleared robotic system designed to aid interventional cardiologists in performing PCI. During robotic-assisted PCI, physicians sit in a radiation-shielded workstation, the Interventional Cockpit, and use a set of joysticks and touchscreen controls to robotically manipulate guidewires and balloon/stent catheters during an intervention.
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Sr. R&D EngineerBoston Scientific Sep 2005 - Sep 2014Marlborough, Ma, Us• Lead projects across multiple sites, projects included complete devices, delivery systems, end effectors, stents, catheters and guidewires addressing R&D, start-up, quality, DFMA, testing, and production needs with value and cost savings greater than $1,000,000 each• Development of an ergonomic one-handed grip and shaft / catheter stent delivery system.• Technical Achievement Award, Innovation Challenge Award, IP awards, Team Solution / Cost Savings Award• Designed and developed a Direct Drive Endoscopic Surgery (DDES) OR Table Platform System and articulation joints and end effectors (including 3.2 mm Grasper, Dissector, Scissor & Needle Drivers and other devices - 9 patents granted for the end effectors and articulation joints) - over 50 total patents filed, over 30 granted. • Lead the R&D quality improvements, cost reduction (DFMA), supplier selection and commercialization efforts for a medical device (a single use colonoscope) reducing the cost from over $150.00 to less than $35.00 for the handle / manual controller. Device successfully completed clinical trials. • Completed over 100 Intellectual Property patent submissions,over 30 patents granted, over 30 pending. -
Consultant, Product Dynamics - Product DevelopmentRadianse, Inc & Aprilis, Inc & Avidyne, Inc 2004 - 2005- Design of RFID location and tracking tags for the hospital environment for patients, doctors and equipment - for Radianse, Inc - Privately Held ; Hospital & Health Care industry- Design of a hand held, laser reader fingerprint scanner and storage device – for Aprilis, Inc - Privately Held ; Computer Hardware industry - Addressed design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA), quality and cost needs for avionics equipment (Flight Desk Systems) - for Avidyne Inc.- Privately Held ; Aviation & Aerospace
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Sr. R&D Engineer / Project LeadAbbott 2001 - 2004Abbott Park, Illinois, UsABBOTT LABORATORIES, MEDISENSE PRODUCTS, Bedford, MA, (Division moved to Calif.) 2001- 2004A leading supplier of blood glucose meters and accessoriesProject Leader / Senior Mechanical Design Engineer • Lead the mechanical engineering efforts on MediSense’s first product production tooled and manufactured overseas (In Singapore for production tooling and Bangkok for contract manufacturing)• Lead design reviews, key vendor selections and other critical project needs. Supported Quality Assurance, Verification and Validation efforts to comply with company and FDA requirements• Managed engineering & design, tooling (product designs, documentation, reviews and suppliers) tooling budget over $600K (went direct to production tooling, NO prototype tooling, saving ~ 200K and time) 3 million units shipped the second year. -
Sr. R&D EngineerVst Technologies 1997 - 2001SMARTDISK CORP. / VST TECHNOLOGIES, Acton, MA (Acquired and moved to Florida) 1998-2001A leading supplier of personnel storage products for the digital age – SmartDisk acquired VST in 3/00Senior Mechanical Design Engineer • Designed from concept to production over 18 products ( in less then four years) for the portable and desktop PC market - customers included IBM, Apple, Fujitsu, 3M and others plus our own line including hard drives, Zip drives, chargers and CD-RW’s Products won awards at MacWorld and Comdex• Business grew from 6M to 60M in 3 years.• Products were completed from concept to tooling to production in as fast as 4 months• Designed, had built and transferred to production numerous test and assembly tools and fixtures
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ConsultantArthur D. Little (Technology And Product Development Consulting) 1994 - 1997ARTHUR D. LITTLE, Cambridge, MA 1994-1997A world leader in product development, technology, management, health and safety consultingConsultant • Managed $400K plus product development effort to design and prototype commercial pilots' integrated oxygen regulator, facemask, harness and goggles (for Scott Aviation)• Led the mechanical engineering efforts on the design and prototyping of the next generation personal load bearing equipment for the US Army (LandWarrior). The equipment housed advanced electronics including a computer, two radios, GPS equipment (with Motorola, Batelle, Hughes Electronics, Honeywell, Gentex and others) and batteries in a composite case. Featured, on front cover, in both National Geographic and Time magazine (10/95)• Developed concepts, prototypes and costing analysis for numerous healthcare products and instruments such as blood fluid warming device, next generation pharmaceutical compounding instrument, arthroscopic tools, 12-port ceramic valve and other projects• Created vendor products and services database to identify “best-in-class” vendors for design and manufacturing review, cost estimating, quotation and manufacturing requirements
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Sr. R & D EngineerUnited States Surgical Corp 1990 - 1994UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION, Norwalk and North Haven, CT 1990-1994A world leader in sales and manufacturing of surgical stapling and endoscopic instrumentsSenior R&D Engineer, Senior DFMA / Value Engineer • Designed and developed precision surgical endoscopic stapling, clipping and cutting instruments from concept including customer and marketing interface, extensive vendor interaction including machine shop, injection molders and fabricators, performance testing and evaluation, pilot production and documentation that consistently met demanding requirements and schedules - nine patents awarded.• Identified, implemented and managed $100K+ cost reduction/quality improvement projects, e.g. R&D design reviews, new assembly/disassembly methods, part design optimization, product and material scheduling, planning volume material purchasing, and DFMA issues.• Managed project design/drafting and model shop resources to meet project schedule demands.• Managed vendor's production operation including part design, programming, QC and scheduling.• Generated CNC programs, guidelines and training saving up to 80% of manufacturing time.• Created and distributed a Design for Manufacturability and Assembly (DFMA) guidelines book to improve design quality, standardization, manufacturing, simplify tooling and reduce costs.
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EngineerPitney Bowes 1988 - 1990Stamford, Ct, Us -
EngineerTechnicon Instruments Corp 1982 - 1986
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Gary Kappel Education Details
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Charter Oak State CollegeEngineering And Management (Mechanical And Manufacturing Engineering) -
University Of Bridgeport
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