Michael Etheridge Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Bischof Lab / ATP-Bio

• Integrated across all levels of the research team, from establishing and managing strategic directions with the Principal Investigators to helping students and technicians troubleshoot experiments and equipment.
• Provide research leadership, expertise, and mentorship across a diverse research team and wide variety of projects. My primary focus is on establishing feasibility and potential paths for translation of.
• Co-invented technology which can enable long-term cryopreservation and banking of organs and tissues (during my graduate work in 2013). I am now helping lead research focused on demonstrating critical feasibility.
• Contributed to invention and development on several technology approaches which enable ultrarapid cooling and rewarming of submillimeter cryopreserved systems in a scalable manner. This has application across a broad.
• Bring an industry mindset to strategic planning. Work with Principal Investigators to continually review the labs’ research focus and help set appropriate/impactful priorities. Have been helping to implement more.

• Meet individually, weekly with students and postdocs to discuss research progress and plans, helping them make progress on key objectives while still maintaining their academic/scientific development.
• Lead the labs’ management of Intellectual Property portfolio. Working with the University Office of Technology Commercialization and patent lawyers to litigate 12 on-going patent applications. Attempting to maintain.
• Establish and maintain relationships with industry partners. Management of 4 NIH SBIR projects.
• Have supported strategy development, outlining, writing, and management of 7 NIH R01 and 5 SBIR proposals.
• Have been included as co-author on 5 peer-reviewed publications (with 3 more in submission).
• Manage an annual research budget of ~$1M (direct cost), including personnel allocations and forecasting needs for proposals and personnel to support research direction. Lead the lab’s recruiting efforts, including.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Member of a dynamic research team reporting directly to VP of Research and Technology. Core roles included early-phase technology development and basic science support of critical field efforts.
• Technical lead on feasibility assessment and development for next generation RF ablation device. Worked with team to understand the key factors contributing to success of the current ablation device portfolio and.
• Individually conducted an investigation into a serious field complaint issue. Developed a complicated bench test to recreate and understand the design factors and use conditions that could contribute to potential.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Technical lead on feasibility assessment and development for next generation cryoablation technology. Received hand-off of preliminary evaluation from outside research consultants. Prioritized highest areas of risk for.
• Technical lead on development of COMSOL numerical model for simulating bipolar RF clamp ablation device. A detailed literature review provided the framework for describing the ablation physics and parameter space for.
• Met an aggressive timeline to refine a test model and design a series of benchtop experiments to inform a critical field usage question. The test model simulated clinical use conditions for an epicardial RF ablation.

Mounds View, MN

• Supported technology and manufacturing transfer of phased RF ablation catheters to new site; currently supporting development of next generation cryoablation catheters.
• Detailed knowledge of design, operation, and testing of both phased RF and cryoablation technology platforms.
• Applying established expertise in experimental design to develop well controlled test methods that accurately measure the intended device performance and clinical use conditions. Responsibilities include test method.
• Growing experience with clinical procedures and how devices are used in the operating room. This includes development of stacked-stress testing to mimic cumulative manipulation and stresses that will be seen by devices.
• Statistical analysis in Minitab, including (but not limited to) distribution analysis, tolerance intervals, ANOVA, and MSA.
• Exposure to sub-optimal product requirements has led to greater understanding and appreciation for the importance of effective product requirement definition and adequate requirements flow.

Mechanical And Biomedical Engineering

Applied practical engineering principles to improve clinical application of a variety of thermal therapies. Concurrently managed multiple research projects, with collaborations across several departments and while mentoring and supervising a number of undergraduate and graduate level students. Key developments as a medical R&D engineer included:***.

Mechanical And Biomedical Engineering

*** Medical Device Design and Development: ***o Project lead on six student, multidisciplinary engineering/business team, tasked with design and development of an endoscopic probe for ablative treatment of Barrett’s Esophagus.o Developed a detailed understanding of the medical condition and current treatments through patient observations, physician.

• Significant experience as technical project lead in manufacturing, pilot, and lab facilities. Completed over 35 projects, coordinating highly cross-functional teams. Projects ranged in size from $10K to over $1 million.
• Exposure to a wide range of manufacturing technologies, including- coating, extrusion, sealing, microstructured materials, web-handling, machine-control, precision measurement, injection molding, and laser-processing.
• Regularly applied voice-of-customer to translate “project requests” into well-defined and measurable equipment, process, and project specifications. Worked hard to reach consensus decisions and buy-in from all.
• Ensured compliance with ISO, OSHA, and internal safety standards in designing equipment and managing projects.
• Interacted directly with both internal design groups and external vendors/fabricators.
• Applied Six Sigma tools (including DOE, Pugh and Concept Selection Matrices, C&E, FMEA, RACI, and Stakeholder Analysis) to develop design specifications, evaluate design alternatives, and reach consensus decisions.

• Redesigned snowplow mounting to improve safety and simplify blade change-out procedure. Replaced manual bolting system with a series of hydraulically-actuated pins. Design eliminated the need for excessive maneuvering.
• Responsible for all aspects of project from conception to implementing prototype trials.

• Designed and conducted two-level, factorial experiments to investigate effects of part alignment on yield of automated, microscopic soldering process. Subsequent analysis produced a four-factor transfer function that.
• Conducted several similar investigations to validate process design changes and isolate sources of product failure.

• Analyzed performance data on international project change-orders to identify indicators and root causes. Defined dimensions of analysis and provided data-drive recommendations for improvement to the project management.
• Developed hierarchal structure and database for categorizing global suppliers and equipment, to facilitate analysis of supplier-related processes.

• Worked with design engineers to understand the drawing support process and create organizational system to increase efficiency of support response.

Phd, Ms, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Thermal Therapies, Biomedical Nanotechnology, Cryopreservation GPA: 4.00 / 4.00 Additional Academic Experience: • Presented more than 15.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Summa Cum Laude with Distinction (3.86 GPA) Carlson School of Management Minor Emphases: Mechanical Design and Fabrication, Project.

Education record