Mark Dallara Email & Phone Number

Louisville, KY, US

Louisville, Kentucky, US

Beverly, Massachusetts, US

Beverly, Massachusetts, US

Beverly, Massachusetts, US

Varano de’ Melegari, Italy, IT

• Responsibilities:
• Direction of production planning and assembly, composites, and fabrication manufacturing cells.
• Safety program manager and key member of the quality system development team.
• Administration of production planning data and workflow in the internally-developed ERP system.Key achievements:
• Maintained production schedule and inventory levels of internally produced and locally subcontracted chassis components for 2012-2014 Indycar seasons and instituted the use of consumption trend analysis as a key input.
• Collaborated with colleagues at Dallara Automobili headquarters in Italy and local general contractors to plan and execute construction and expansion of 30,000 sq ft plant.

Largo (Tampa Bay), FL, US

• Responsibilities:
• Direction, staffing, and budgeting of a research group performing in-depth analysis of product failures with critical business and/or regulatory implications.
• Ensure feedback of lessons learned from failure analyses to design, reliability, and risk management practices.Key achievements:
• Created the Engineering Analysis group with the Vice President of R&D to obtain more detailed and accurate information from product failures; established its vision, methods, and operating principles.
• Contributed to the achievement of the division’s reliability goal of a 10% reduction in the average weighted complaint rate for key products each year for three consecutive years.
• Performed a gap analysis of departmental practices of reliability specification, testing, and analysis; published internal guidance on the correct application of Weibull distributions and related statistical techniques.

Largo (Tampa Bay), FL, US

• Key achievements:
• Developed the PRO2033 high speed drill attachment for the PowerPro handpiece line as lead design engineer and project manager of a cross-functional team.
• Analyzed failures of legacy handpieces and attachments, including several gearbox and bearing configurations; published internal lessons-learned summaries.
• Authored the company’s first internal procedure governing technical drawings to customize ASME Y14 standards and prevent recurrent problems in development projects.

Largo (Tampa Bay), FL, US

• Key achievements:
• Successfully led a variety of new sports medicine products from concept through market launch to post-market surveillance as design engineer and project manager of cross-functional teams.
• Invented and developed the BioStinger Hornet delivery system for a bioabsorbable meniscal repair implant.
• Developed the Stress-Equalizing Graft Tensioning System in conjunction with the surgeon inventor; revised design for usability, manufacturability, cleanability, and accuracy. U.S. patent #7686810.
• Invented an expanding dilator system for compacting bone tunnels in anterior cruciate ligament repair. U.S. patent #7211098.

• Key achievements:
• Designed and developed multiple iterations of the stent portion of prototype endovascular prosthesis systems for minimally invasive abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. U.S. patents #6802859, #7122051.
• Directed in vitro stent durability testing and radial force measurement as part of design verification, including equipment specification and qualification, protocol development, testing, and data analysis.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Key achievements:
• Directed the technical effort to demonstrate compliance with domestic and international harmonized standards, supporting CE Mark Declarations of Conformity for non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) cuff systems.
• Established the strategic approach to risk analysis for NIBP accessories.

Biomedical Engineering

B.Sc., Engineering Science (Biomechanics)