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Santa Barbara, California, Us

Owner / Principal Engineer of Mechanical Design Engineering consulting business.Provide Mechanical Engineering and Design for various industries, from concept to prototype to production product.Product Design, Assembly Tooling, Project Management► Representative Projects - Medical Devices● Surgical Robotic Drive System● Bariatric Surgery Catheter / Ports / Instrumentation / Needle Drivers● Breast Cancer Treatment Instrumentation● Orthodontic Bracket (braces)● Bi-Polar Electrocautery Surgical Instrument● Outpatient Operating Room Light Arm► Representative Projects - Motors / Generators / Gearheads● Brushless DC Motor and Generator Designs● Custom Gearhead Designs● Custom Geartrain Designs► Representative Projects - Machine Design● High Speed Produce (Fruit) Labeling Machine Production-Ready Redesign● Hybrid Man-Powered / Battery Powered Electric Vehicle Design● Yoga Mat Ultra Violet Light Cleansing Machine Production-Ready Redesign● Remote Presence Robot Body design / motor selection● Ultra Precision X-Y-Z Stage Test Equipment Mechanical Detailed Design● Production Line Catheter Punch Tooling - Medical Device Industry► Representative Projects - Optical-Mechanical Devices● Infrared Camera Housing / Body / Optical Filter Changing Mechanism (Defense Industry)● Infrared Camera Housing / Mechanics for extreme high temperature environments● Laser Range Finder Mechanics (Defense Industry)● Optical-Mechanical Light Source Control Mechanism (Defense Industry)● Optical-Mechanical Breadboard Telescope Test Assembly (DOT project)● Optical-Mechanical switches► Representative Projects - Electronics Enclosures● Blackbody Enclosure / Housing (Defense Industry)● Rack-Mount Electronics Enclosure (Defense Industry)● Blood Analysis Machine Enclosure (Medical Device Industry)► Representative Projects - Misc Design Projects● Research Laboratory Layout / System Integration● High Voltage Relays● Production Line Assembly Tooling / Fixturing

Purchase, Ny, Us

As one of the first 10 company employees at InTouch Health (Acquired by Teladoc in 2020), worked with one other mechanical engineer, two software engineers, and an electrical engineer to design the company's first robotic system from the ground up, achieving multiple product generations within the first year.Design included robot structure (the body of the robot) as well as mechanical dynamic analysis and selection of all of the motors in the system.Listed as one of the inventors on one of the first patents for the system.

Simi Valley, Ca, Us

Designed a variety of brushless DC Motors and Generators for Aerospace, Defense, and Medical applications.Designs included mechanical as well as magnetic design for high power density motors and generators.

Us

Designed various Actuators for Disc Drive Media Head Testing Machines.Actuators positioned read/write heads for "flying" the heads while testing the media (hard discs) - Voice Coil Actuators - DC Torquers - Magnetostrictive Microactuators (20 microinches of travel) - Piezoelectric Microactuators (20 microinches of travel)

California, 94086, Us

Designed mechanical components / sub assemblies for the Zeus system, the world's first FDA approved minimally invasive robotic heart surgery system. (Worked at Computer Motion, which was later acquired by Intuitive Surgical).

California, 94086, Us

Joined as an intern when the company (Computer Motion, later acquired by Intuitive) had less than 35 employees. Experienced the exciting intense growth of a successful medical device startup.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

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