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Boulder, Colorado, US

• Structural and Mechanism Design and Development of purified water and ice vending kiosk.
• Design and Assembly of medical device teaching / demonstration device.
• Contract design and engineering service focusing on biomedical research and medical device development.
• Architect, design, prototype and debug of 44 axis of motion microfluidic test-bed.
• Development of a novel microfluidic, multi-vessel, fluid distribution and dispensing system.
• Development of an 80 zone closed loop TEC driven incubation plate for temperature maintenance of biological fluid.

Englewood, CO, US

• Directed engineering efforts in the development of an RF based (2.45GHz) home popcorn popping appliance.
• Named on several related patents.
• Used EMWorks/HFWorks Simulation to analyze and tune RF heating cavity and emitter designs.
• Designed and managed production of polymer consumer goods used in delivery of popcorn snack foods.
• Designed and manufactured custom high speed snack food packaging equipment. – Dispensing of packaging, popcorn kernels, elevated temperature palm oil, dry flavor, heat sealed lidding. Vision inspection. Single operator.
• Designed and manufactured custom snack food manufacturing equipment. – Panning/coating process and equipment.

• Commercialization of AxoTrack Ultrasonic Needle Visualization System
• Lead Design Engineer for large volume, durable / disposable ultrasonic needle visualization system.
• Successfully commercialized and redesigned existing plastic product to eliminate manufacturing errors and realize proper functionality of the device.
• Built MonteCarlo tolerance model to accurately analyze 3D variation of component position and made specification adjustments to converge manufacturing capability and product requirements.
• Performed statistical analysis (SAS.jmp) to evaluate and determine vendor process capability.
• Developed and fabricated prototypes of various new design concepts for follow up design concepts.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• Lead Design Engineer for large volume, disposable hazardous drug handling system.
• Successfully redesigned existing plastic and polyisoprene disposable pharmaceutical product to eliminate misalignment errors and realize proper functionality of the device.
• Performed tolerance analysis and made specification adjustments to converge manufacturing capability and product requirements.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• Lead Design Engineer for large volume, disposable hazardous drug handling system.
• Successfully redesigned existing plastic and polyisoprene disposable pharmaceutical product to eliminate misalignment errors and realize proper functionality of the device.
• Performed tolerance analysis and made specification adjustments to converge manufacturing capability and product requirements.
• Performed statistical analysis (MiniTab) to evaluate and determine vendor process capability.
• Established and led technical program to train engineers and technicians in GD&T, Tolerance Analysis, component design and FEA evaluation.

Pfäffikon, SZ, CH

• Successfully designed and developed mono and tri-color Integrated Projection Modules (display light engine) for use in micro multimedia display devices.
• Specified filters, mirrors and optical components to combine and direct laser light from both diode and vecsel laser modules.
• Interpreted design data output from Zmax for conversion into SolidWorks solid models.
• Designed and verified assembly tooling for the semi-automated fabrication and testing of Integrated Photonics Module. Required placement of miniature components (~1.5mm) with required variations of less than 15um.

Glostrup, DK

• Lead 5-12 person engineering effort, from evaluation to product launch, in the research, design and development of an automated IHC diagnostic tissue stainer.
• Interfaced with end users, vendors, intra-company departments and nodes, to ensure a successful product development plan. Lead and participated in multiple cross-functional teams.
• Attended world wide technical conferences to gather end user input and feedback, and support prototype instrument demonstrations.
• Successfully completed the instrument design under FDA Medical Device Design Controls and QSR.
• Maintained project schedules and budgets.
• Lead design reviews, verification and validation testing.

• Lead 5 person engineering team, from concept to completion, in the design and development of a completely automated, PC controlled, web conversion tool. Integrated servo and stepper motors and drives, static control.
• Designed and produced a 19” rack mount electronic chassis for a network router. This new product design included sheet metal design, printed circuit board design and layout, industrial design, part tolerancing for.
• Designed various injection molded plastic components for Cytomation, Inc., a large biomedical research tool manufacturer. These parts were part of a cost reduction effort on a flow cytometer and included electronic.

• Project Engineer
• Designed and led development and fabrication of an automated, high volume, in-circuit test system for Intel. This system was used to perform all functional testing on the Intel PII and PIII slot 1 processor cards.
• Designed the ‘Start System’ for Colorado Time Systems. This is a wireless, remote, battery operated, public address system. Designed rotationally molded plastic parts, injection molded plastic parts, PCBA’s, fabricated.
• Designed an automatic ink feeding system for the Tektronix Phazer line of printers. This design incorporated injected molded plastic parts, stamped sheet metal design, and motor specification.
• Logged 3000+ hours using PRO/Engineer solid modeler to design parts and assemblies.
• Designed and manufactured assembly tools and fixtures for production support.

• Mechanical Engineer
• Designed high precision mechanical components for Travan tape drives.
• Designed plastic injection molded gears, bezels, head mounts, light pipes and enclosures.
• Designed stamped and formed sheet metal, and machined metal and plastic components.
• Evaluated systems to determine performance characteristics.
• Designed and manufactured assembly tools and fixtures for production support.

Master Of Engineering (M.E.), Biomedical Engineering

Engineer’S Degree, Plastics Engineering

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Masters Certificate, Plastics Engineering