Project Management• Leads cross-functional, multi-site and business unit project teams• Leads, facilitates and coordinates project activities ensuring projects are completed successfully• Effectively manages customer expectations of products and services to support customer satisfaction• Manages project scope including priorities and creep• Creates project schedules with milestone targets and task responsibilitiesProduct Development Engineer• Leads technical activities in the commercialization of orthopaedic surgical instruments and implants across various market segments (large and small joint orthopedics, spine, trauma, sports medicine, etc.)• Champions design control documentation for developed products in accordance with quality systems & procedures to build Design History Files (DHF)/ Technical Files (TF)• Translates design requirements into concepts and formulates device specifications including drawings with critical to quality (CTQ’s) features• Evaluates and applies appropriate engineering standards and best practices for intended use including material selection and strength and mechanical properties• Responsible for risk management including hazard analysis and failure mode effect analysis for the intended use and design (uFMEA and dFMEA)• Conducts and oversees all aspects of design verification and validation (V&V) including tolerance analysis, writing test protocols, managing testing with outside laboratories, evaluating and analyzing test results, and writing test reports and engineering rationales• Collaborates with manufacturing engineers across business units conducting prototype, design transfer, and production activities• Supports QA/RA with post-launch compliance activities

• Team lead of multiple R&D engineers developing a new platform-level set of trauma instruments • Lead R&D/PD engineer contributing to various new product development trauma projects, including plating and joint arthroplasty devices• Manager for multiple co-op engineers and mentor to junior full-time engineers• Expert overseeing and contributing to design history activities, risk management, and design transfer processes

• Key member of a diverse co-development project with Eli Lilly and Company• Developed, managed and interpreted numerous in vivo preclinical studies to examine the local delivery of combined biomaterials and pharmaceutical agents for tissue regeneration• Worked with fellow project members, including scientists specializing in cellular/molecular biology, analytical chemistry and biomaterials• Initiated and fostered cooperative relationships with internal and external project partners• Presented study data to team members, management and external partners to enable critical project decisions• Coordinated with contract research organizations (CRO’s) to execute in vivo preclinical studies• Engaged with others to design and fabricate novel instruments and implants for preclinical studies• Prepared reports for completed studies

Department of Orthopaedic SurgerySupervisor/Mentor: Steve A. Goldstein• Integral member of a multi-disciplinary research team in the University of Michigan’s Orthopaedic Research Laboratories• Developed, managed and analyzed numerous in vivo studies to test biomaterials and implants, and to examine tissue regeneration and adaptation• Supervised and mentored junior laboratory trainees with independent research projects• Authored journal articles and conference abstracts and presentations• Managed laboratory resources• Contacted vendors and coordinated orders of research materials and services• Collaborated with others to develop novel biomaterial scaffold systems

Biomedical Engineering DepartmentAdviser: Donald L. BartelDeveloped and analyzed 3D, nonlinear finite element (FE) models to evaluate the structural performance of orthopaedic tissue-implant systems. Used statistically-derived representations of these FE models to understand the effects of design, environmental and surgical variables upon implant mechanical performance.