Marcus Souza Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California Area

Development of many medical devices primarily related to single use devices for ophthalmic surgery, but including neurovascular, gastrointestinal, radiology, dental, and surgical training devices. Work with all phases of development from very early concept development, prototyping, V&V and manufacturing transfer. Extensive work with miniature scale devices and components.

Developed CO2 powered single use medical device for intraocular lens delivery and drug delivery. Development of single use gas mixing device for ophthalmic surgery. Development of fluidics module and consumables for surgical console.

Project Manager for all new product development projects involving soft goods for the Stryker SurgiCount Safety-Sponge solution for retained sponge prevention. As the only engineer involved in soft goods I was responsible for everything from product concept through launch, sustaining of existing product line, and implementing new technologies and automation into production.

Design and development of consumable products for vitreoretinal surgery. Mechanical Engineering: • Contributed to sales and growth by releasing a new family of products which have the potential to be used in every vitreoretinal surgery case. This consumable significantly contributes to profits.• Completed the design on the first iteration of technically challenging products, valved cannulas, and met the release deadline of an aggressive schedule due to extremely high customer demand. • Ensure product performance, manufacturability, cost effectiveness, reliability, sterilization, transportation, and packaging by developing and executing complex test protocols.• Confirm compliance to required standards for medical products with extensive documentation.• Maximize production efficiency through research and analysis, planning, concept and design, configuration, simulation, testing, evaluation and assessment.• Develop comprehensive engineering designs by considering functionality, effectiveness, reliability, safety, aesthetics, cost, ease of use, climate and environmental impact.• Consistently selected over peers for mechanical design challenges requiring complex assemblies and projects with accelerated time constraints.Project Management:• Complete primary design deliverables and collaborate with a project manager on numerous projects.• Deliver projects on time and within budget through project strategizing and initiation, risk identification and mitigation.• Organize and follow up on highly complex, multi-site, multi-discipline, cross-organizational projects.• Determine project scope, gather data, develop plans, coordinate roll-outs and track projects in various phases of project life-cycles with project team, senior management and operations personnel.• Track projects by generating project deliverables, test plans, business requirements, technical design documents and risk management plans.

Mechanical Design Engineer in the Engineering Services department at the R&D facility.• Provided mechanical design on a broad range of projects to support numerous modules in their next generation cataract/vitreoretinal surgical unit, as well as stress analysis and some finite element analysis.• Completed projects with knowledge of fluid mechanics, electromechanical systems and optics.• Utilize Pro/Engineer with Top Down Design methodology.

Produced stable systems by designing mechanical, electrical and software elements that worked perfectly together and design components for servo based robotic systems. • Redesigned an unreliable material handling system by taking over for an engineer who has passed away, analyzing a complex motion control problem and providing engineering solutions under aggressive timelines.• Provided sustaining engineering, engineering evaluation and field support with extensive electromechanical design and analysis using Pro/Engineer and Pro/Mechanica.• Oversaw sustaining engineering for the entire material handling system including all mechanical design and analysis, manufacturing support, and coordinating efforts with software and electrical hardware.• Frequently worked with motion control projects including drive selection, tuning, and performance evaluation on new projects.• Conducted engineering analysis such as stress analysis using FEA, metal fatigue, life calculations on new designs and failure analysis of electromechanical assemblies.

• Worked with customers abroad and onsite to customize the equipment for their application.• Collaborated with tooling designers to develop tooling, determine process parameters, and program pattern recognition.• Supported our machines worldwide with any electrical, mechanical, or process issues that could not be handled by our international representatives.• Performed as a liaison between customers and our engineering group.