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California, United States

Irvine, CA

Orange County, California Area

• Serve as the main point of contact for clients in writing proposals, presenting design concepts, performing design reviews, and giving project status updates. Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams in.
• Met the aggressive strategic goal of a key client by taking the design of a robotically-assisted intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) device from concept to fully-functional alpha prototype in only 4 months
• Combined knowledge of load sensor design with experience overseeing app development to create an internet-of-things (IoT) system that remotely monitors liquid nitrogen usage and automates billing
• Enabled better collaboration and document control by setting up and implementing a company-wide product data management (PDM) software system

Orange County, California Area

Irvine, CA

• Directed a ten-member engineering team in taking the company’s first microprocessor controlled ankle product through the entire development process from identifying the opportunity and customer needs to manufacturing.
• Reduced the effort required to fit the product to the patient by developing the company’s first product to be offered with mobile apps and by working with the clinical team to simplify the workflow
• Expedited product verification and validation by breaking down a complex structural test done at the system level into three simpler subsystem tests
• Leveraged finite element analysis to meet fatigue life requirements for the structural components with only two iterations of the physical prototypes thereby reducing cost and time
• Created a technology platform which is now being used to launch future products resulting in a shortened product design cycle for the company in general

Irvine, CA

• Played a key role on a small, agile design team assembled for the purpose of producing the company’s first electromechanical product—a microprocessor controlled knee. Designed all the sensors and structural components.
• Developed, in half the time it took major competitors, the world’s fastest responding microprocessor controlled knee that was also the first electronic knee product in the industry to be water resistant, to have a.
• Fueled company growth with a product that accounted for 30% of sales revenue just one year after launch
• Assisted in marketing the product by helping to write the script for and then acting in a YouTube video
• Authored sections of the company’s ISO 13485 and FDA compliant quality management system including design controls, control of design documentation, part numbering, receiving and inspection, preventative maintenance.

Aliso Viejo, CA

• Coordinated the efforts of a nine-member project team in taking a plug-and-play, microprocessor controlled knee from the point of being a university research prototype to a reliable, manufacturable product. Prepared.
• Designed a knee extension assist spring that met fatigue life requirements without changing the envelope of the product or messing up the industrial design
• Decreased by 33% the number of fasteners required for mounting the PCB’s and battery pack while also making the mounting able to resist impact loading during a drop
• Reduced the time required to produce working prototypes from days or weeks down to hours by programming and operating a three-axis CNC mill
• Revamped the department’s purchasing practices to achieve near real-time expense tracking

Cambridge, MA

• Conducted an independent scientific research project.
• Developed a mathematical model that characterizes human ankle function during a normal walking gait as part of the effort to design the first generation of powered ankle prostheses and orthoses
• Collected gait data with the aid of the personnel at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Gait Lab
• Wrote MATLAB scripts to efficiently manipulate data and to test hypotheses using statistical tests for significance

Salt Lake City, UT

• Collaborated with a design team in refining and making production-ready the design of a myoelectrically controlled prosthetic hand.
• Reduced fallout in the manufacturing of a two-speed automatic transmission by identifying the root causes of the failures, writing a troubleshooting guide, and building a test fixture
• Resolved tolerance stack up issues in the design of a quick-disconnect wrist
• Increased, by a factor of 10, the cycle life of a custom injection molded electrical connector
• Trained manufacturing personnel in assembly and test procedures
• Machined and molded prototype parts using a three-axis CNC mill, a lathe, and a bench top injection molding machine

Salt Lake City, UT

• Carried out independent projects as a member of the manufacturing engineering department.
• Streamlined the quality assurance process by designing and building a device that automated in-process testing of the product’s occlusion alarm and increased testing capacity by five times
• Increased production output through troubleshooting malfunctioning PCB’s
• Conducted product performance tests to improve customer satisfaction

Master’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Completed courses in controls engineering, statistics and probability, and management of technology and innovation.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

• Four-year presidential scholarship • Graduated magna cum laude • Organized and directed a team in obtaining funding for, designing, and.