Matthew Michaelis Email & Phone Number

Liberty Lake, Wa, Us

Cheney, Washington, United States

Spokane, Washington Area

Formerly Matrical Bioscience.

Originated innovative solutions to challenging government needs. Conducted original research programs. Directed manufacturing efforts for mature programs. • Directed manufacturing efforts for novel microfluidics device through identification and refinement of product design specifications, manufacturing plan, fabrication technologies, and assembly protocols. Sourced and coordinated contract manufacturers, manufacturing equipment, and material suppliers.• Proposed, received funding for, designed, and fabricated air powered miniature portable “cleanroom” to protect aircraft surfaces from dust/sand/debris during composites repair of damaged aircraft surfaces.• Prepared successful funding proposals for original research.

Researched and developed novel products by identifying emerging technologies, utilizing them to fulfill immediate government needs, and then leveraging these developed technologies into marketable products.• Originated and developed custom automated UV curable mask applied via high deposition rate inkjet system for applying coatings to aircraft. Partnered with Northrop for masking of Joint Strike Fighter components.• Managed and designed a membrane-based CO2 sensor project for detecting humans in cargo containers that leveraged the sensitivity of self-mixing laser interferometry and custom gas separation membranes.• Developed novel biological filtration system in which atmospheric glow plasma and photocatalytic reactions isolate and neutralize airborne biohazardous agents for high efficiency biological filtration with personal, vehicle, or building application.• Provided project support for multiple projects in the form of optomechanical design, custom test apparatus, data acquisition system, experiment design, and rapid prototype development.• Prepared SBIR funding proposals for original research with 20% win rate (SBIR average is 10%) resulting in $930,000 in funding.• As group leader, supervised three engineers and one research scientist including delegation of work assignments, proposal review, and project oversight.

Developed prototype additive manufacturing PDM system to build arbitrary metallic (aluminum and solder) 3D objects one drop at a time from computer files without a tool. • Studied multi-droplet splat solidification with a numerical simulation of 200 μm molten metal drops that allows for re-melting. • Simulated, designed, implemented, and tested a high frequency vibrational structure to improve aluminum droplet generation. • Developed and tested an in-flight convective droplet heating apparatus capable of heating droplet streams at a rate of 11,000 deg C per second.• Improved PDM system integration, calibration, and build path planning.

Challenged to design products balancing form, function, and manufacturability using Pro/E (>5000 hr) while working closely with industrial designers and clients.• Designed plastic injection molded products: Responsible for material selection and assembly method design. Expertise includes snap fits, fasteners for thermoplastics, ultrasonic inserting and assembly, press fitting, sealing, and consulting.• Developed expertise in reverse engineering sculpturally shaped objects utilizing 3D digitized data from laser, CT, and patch scanners in conjunction with Pro/E and Imageware Surfacer.• Project managed modem housing, sharps collectors, cat play tower, wheeled dog carrier, breast pump, hockey helmet, ice skate blade holder, scuba masks, pda, and many others.• Formulated all project quoting. Designed and implemented departmental project tracking system. Coordinated workload for four-member engineering team.• Completed projects utilizing injection molding, co-molding, insert molding, vacuum forming, sheet metal, gas-assist molding, machine design, mechanism design and optimization of manufacturing processes.

Supported implementation of lean manufacturing principles throughout Delphi Chassis through work at the Advanced Integrated Manufacturing (AIM) Center.

Assisted with the implementation of innovative process of Capacitor/Discharge Welding or Impulse Welding for Joining Technologies Group. • Tested weld properties and conducted metallography studies. Assisted with machine design of fully automated Capacitor/Discharge Welder. • Designed and implemented database to track parts, vendors, suppliers, prospects, and shop order information.

M.S. And Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Mechanical Engineering