Nick Stroud Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, FL, US

• Manager of engineering lab operations, strategy, & staff
• Responsible for annual department budget, headcount, and capital expenditure planning
• Engineering technical reviewer for all of the team's verification & validation protocols, reports, summaries, and memos
• Developed corporate project management tool (Smartsheet Control Center), created project management process and continuously improved both resulting in receiving an Excellence award
• Corporate Mentor

Gainesville, FL, US

• Managed up to 100 concurrent verification & validation projects serving knee, hip, and extremities business groups
• Spearheaded the creation of a laboratory quality management system, test method validation procedures, and ensuring compliance to achieve ISO 17025 accreditation in 2023
• Created management tool for tracking over 150 ‘Can’t Fail’ projects for Regulatory, Quality Assurance, Clinical Research, and Core Engineering groups
• Mechatronics SME for Active Intelligence business unit. Developed a tibiofemoral force mapping sensor

Gainesville, FL, US

• Managed cross-functional group responsible for finite element analysis, metallurgy, wear testing, joint simulation, fatigue, and static testing for knee, hip, extremities, and spine business groups
• Pre-clinical research manager for new products to support regulatory submission and product differentiation
• R&D Executive Committee member
• Granted patent US 20210137704 Patella kit and methods for using thereof, for instrumented patella kit to quantify reaction forces and guide placement of artificial patella and femoral component

Gainesville, FL, US

• Materials and Testing team lead
• Provided design, engineering, testing and analysis support to other engineers and designers in the development and maintenance of orthopedic implants and instruments
• Developed a two-station multi-DOF test system to simulate physiological joint kinematics for ankle and shoulder. Subsystems included servo-pneumatic, LabView© control/GUI, and real-time data processing to resolve.

Gainesville, FL, US

• Designed multi-DOF test system to perform reverse shoulder testing
• Co-led update of ASTM F2028 standard for assessment of reverse shoulder glenoid component fixation
• Developed testing protocols for knee, hip, and shoulder business units to demonstrate device efficacy for design control and FDA regulatory submissions

Iowa City, Iowa, US

• Performed kinematic simulations of THA impingement and dislocation in cadaver
• Responsible for the electrical hardware and programming (LabView©) of a proprietary pin-on-plate wear testing device
• Member of team that developed and evaluated Tekscan contact pressure sensor for hip (Model 4400 & 4402)
• Designed and manufactured cartilage indentation device for viable cartilage material property testing
• Developed 6DOF cadaveric hip simulator integrated with an MTS© Bionix test machine

Iowa City, Iowa, US

• Worked with cell cultures (feeding, passing, counting, microscopy).
• Created MATLAB©-based data analysis programs for biological assays and tissue material property testing.
• Created MATLAB and LabVIEW mechatronics system for material property testing of articular cartilage.
• Designed viable cartilage impaction device and methodology

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master’S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering