• Enhanced communication of technical developments and project status through clear and simplified explanations tailored to executive, medical professional, team member, and customer audiences.• Proposed and initiated integration of lab robotics to automate vaccine production and testing processes. (Rockwell/Allan Bradley PLC, Arduino, Hamilton, FANUC)

• Led R&D and customer support team specializing in the production of high-precision lathes used to manufacture contact and intraocular lenses. These lathes used a Rockwell/Allan Bradley PLC to control rough positioning of servo rails and a custom D/A – A/D interface to control a PI voice coil for high precision positioning of the diamond stylus. • Presented monthly KPIs and strategic goals to board of directors and senior leadership.

• Programmed Siemens PLCs to control orientation of aircraft fuselage for assembly.• Designed, programmed, and integrated Rockwell, Siemens, and Mitsubishi PLCs with user-friendly human machine interfaces.• Designed, programmed, and integrated Arduino and Raspberry PI microcontrollers for a variety of applications.• Developed 3D models of mechanisms with SolidWorks.

Manager Of Automation And Line Maintenance Teams.• Proposed process improvement initiatives to executives and other stakeholders.• Worked closely with R&D, operations, and quality to ensure proposed equipment and documentation complied with ISO 13485 requirements and regulations.• Initiated, stocked, and managed Minimed’s APT (Advanced Process Technology) lab to help Minimed find ways to modify or automate processes to improve product quality and production line throughput.>> This lab used a Mitsubishi SIA20D 7 axis robot, FANUC M16iB 6-axis robot, Staubli TX-60 5 axis robot, an Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC, and a Delta Tau PMAC 2 embedded system with a variety of other off the shelf and built in house robots, PLCs, servo motors, sensors, vision systems, liquid dispensers, ultrasonic welders, lasers (Excimer, UV, and IR), and custom grippers.• Led machine builder through the design, build and ISO 13485 qualification of a batch slot coating robot used to apply sub-micron thickness reactive layers onto glucose sensor filaments.• Led machine builder through the design, build and ISO 13485 qualification of an automated system to debond 2.5 cm long, 0.18 mm wide, 0.02 mm thick filaments from glass substrate.

Manager Of Engineering And Automation R&D Team Received E3 Outstanding Achievement Award For Innovation• Managed team of engineers in the pursuit of finding new technologies for manufacturing heart valves.• Evaluated production lines to find opportunities to automate and optimize processes.• Initiated, stocked, and managed Edwards’s APT (Advanced Process Technology) lab to help Edwards find ways to modify or automate processes to improve product quality and production line throughput.>> This lab used a FANUC M16iB 6-axis robot, a FANUC M-10 series delta robot, and an Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC, with a variety of other off the shelf and custom robots, PLCs, servo motors, sensors, vision systems, liquid dispensers, ultrasonic welders, lasers (Excimer, UV, and IR), and custom grippers.• Developed plans to work with machine builders to develop automation workcells based on proven concepts.• Worked with internal team, stakeholders, and machine builder throughout project life cycle; from design reviews, build, factory acceptance, final delivery, installation, final qualification, and site acceptance.

Manager Of Essilor’s Operations Automation And Line Maintenance Teams.• Led international cross-functional teams through the development of a fully automated lens inspection line and automatic storage and retrieval system.

Team Leader for Automation and Process Improvement.Received Star of Excellence Award for Innovation and Six Sigma Greenbelt.• Led a team of 4 engineers, one technical writer, and a machine builder through the specification, design, build, qualification, and determination of ISO 13485 qualification procedures for a 128-process fully lights-out production line capable of a production rate of 240 PPM from raw materials through shipping. • Independently debugged and calibrated a 28-station manufacturing robot with feeder bowls, ultrasonic welders, adhesive dispensers, and vision systems to ensure it performed meeting all specifications and FDA 14-11 and ISO 13485 regulatory requirements.• Initiated, stocked, and managed Minimed’s APT (Advanced Process Technology) lab to help Minimed find ways to modify or automate processes to improve product quality and production line throughput.>> This lab used a Mitsubishi SIA20D 7-axis robot, FANUC M16iB 6-axis robot, Staubli TX-60 5-axis robot, an Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC, and a Delta Tau PMAC 2 embedded system with a variety of other off the shelf and built in house robots, PLCs, servo motors, sensors, vision systems, liquid dispensers, ultrasonic welders, lasers (Excimer, UV, and IR), and custom grippers.• Invented and developed mechanisms to automatically debond 2.5 cm long, 0.18 mm wide, 0.02 mm thick filaments from glass substrate and then insert them into a 0.2 mm diameter half-circle lumen of a 2.0 cm long double-lumen tube.

Co-Inventor Of The ibis T5000 Biosensor.Awarded Patent for the T-5000 Robotic System for Automatic Identification of Bioagents. This patent won the Wall Street Journal Gold for Innovation.• Led and managed the isis-ibis Biosciences operations, robotics, and automation team.• Designed, optimized, and maintained robotic workstations used to analyze DNA and RNA with a nuclear mass resonance (NMR) spectrometer. >> Each system used a Bruker NMR, Thermo Scientific CRS Catalyst 5 robot, Synquad/Cartesian robotic pipettor, and a Hamilton automated PCR system, all coordinated with a Siemens SIMATIC 505 embedded control system.