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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Shaped Ethicon’s $2B+ surgical stapler Digital Surgery multi-generational platform strategy in a cross-functional collaboration evaluating customer unmet needs, clinical impact, technical feasibility, and business value.
• Led the design of several robotic surgery front end projects valued at $1.5M+ from initial conception to proof-of-concept verification and finally to full-scale (upstream innovation) prototyping and device integration
• Investigated various developing technologies… Show more
• Investigated various developing technologies, assessed their potential to deliver advanced intra-surgical data and insights, and recommended for front end seed project research and development and IP / start-up.
• Spearheaded key front end projects including: 1.) Surgical end effector electrical impedance spectroscopy tissue and foreign object detection. 2.) Staple cartridge with integrated wireless power and communication.
• Inventor on 16+ patents protecting surgical end effector sensing and device cartridge wireless power and communication

Greater Atlanta Area

• Partnered with startup Silniva to develop a novel, scalable (for manufacturing) nanoscale technique to decouple the electrical and thermal conductivity of silicon increasing zT by an order of magnitude (directly.
• Reduced thermoelectric cooler (TEC) system costs by developing a novel F-TEC module design that eliminates the need of a hot side heat exchanger… Show more
• Reduced thermoelectric cooler (TEC) system costs by developing a novel F-TEC module design that eliminates the need of a hot side heat exchanger and under sufficient convective heat transfer increases heat flux.
• Maximized F-TEC performance (heat flux and COP) by deriving the governing heat transfer equations and optimizing the device geometry utilizing Matlab
• Reduced the development time for F-TEC applications by developing a F-TEC geometric design strategy consisting of closed form expressions to solve for optimum performance and the corresponding dimensions of a device
• Developed a F-TEC COMSOL model (utilizing fluids physics over the fin) to validate the governing heat transfer equations

Greater Atlanta Area

• Completed thermodynamic feasibility study of finalists in the Bill and Melinda Gate's Sustainable Toilet Designs competition.
• Created Exergy Sankey flow diagrams for each toilet design to analyze system energy sources and sinks and estimate overall sustainability of the systems.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Managed and calibrated hydraulic model to simulate field asset operating conditions
• Modeled alternate system configurations for planning purposes
• Created tools to analyze and base decisions off forecast vs. actual well productivity
• Incorporated new productivity tools to supplement modelers’ planning tools
• Created and maintained database and front end tools to analyze data

Pittsburgh, PA

Microbial fuel cells have potential to bolster the ever increasing energy demand, particularly in the wastewater treatment sector. Currently at the University of Pittsburgh, research is being done regarding the interaction between the biofilm and the electrode of microbial fuel cells. The purpose of my research was to optimize electrodes to increase.

Plymouth, Michigan

• Managed new product development of next generation headrest with locking wings
• Oversaw CAD modeling of headrest
• Designed, modeled, and prototyped interlocking splines
• Additive manufacturing design and prototyping
• Researched new technologies foreign to the automotive industry and applied them to automotive seating
• Incorporated microprocessor controlled technologies into seating demonstrating new technological opportunities in automotive seating

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Designed and developed a robotic arm for the kinematic validation of the inertial measurement system algorithm being developed
• Created a BOM and identified parts suppliers for the arm
• Machined, fabricated, and assembled the arm

Waynesboro

• Constructed a static and dynamic compressor analysis to identify pressure limit
• Designed compressor monitoring housings
• Fulfilled the role of project manager of a compressor monitoring project
• Researched, interfaced with vendors, and sampled lab monitoring system
• Conducted a vibration analysis on the compressor during the lab tests by incorporating the monitoring housings and lab monitoring system

Pittsburgh, PA

• Aggregated national survey data into a concise database
• Wrote macros and other code to efficiently construct the database
• Constructed an integrated dashboard to track current registration data
• In an attempt to achieve a database as efficient as possible, I acquired and taught myself how to use the IBM software, SPSS

Master Of Science - Ms

Master Of Arts - Ma

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.)