Ryan Bock Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsibilities:•Oversight and direction of all SINTX SLC Operations, Manufacturing, R&D, and product development activities.•Participates in and provides direction for strategic decision making at executive level across organization.•Management of SINTX intellectual property portfolio - Preparation of patent applications and coordination with legal team to maintain existing portfolio.•Management of strategic partnerships and external research activities - Selects, designs, and coordinates execution of contracted and collaborative efforts to develop products and technologies with other businesses, private labs, university partners, and national labs.•Oversight and guidance of SLC manufacturing through Production and Manufacturing Supervisor.•Oversite and guidance of internal R&D team activities through Senior Engineer - guides application development research, product development activities, and R&D support for manufacturing process development & troubleshooting.• Leads funded research activities. Prepares grant applications to support internal & external research efforts and build strategic partnerships. Acts as PI on prime contracts and site PI/co-I on subaward contracts.•Prepares or supervises preparation of peer-reviewed publications & presentations to demonstrate product capabilities and support regulatory and marketing claims.•Represents company at tradeshows and technical conferences.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsibilities:•Oversight and direction of all SINTX R&D and product development activities.•Participates in and provides direction for strategic decision making at executive level across organization.•Management of SINTX intellectual property portfolio - Preparation of patent applications and coordination with legal team to maintain existing portfolio.•Management of external research activities - Selects, designs, and coordinates execution of contracted and collaborative efforts with private labs, university partners, national labs, and other business entities.•Oversite and guidance of internal R&D team activities through R&D Manager - guides application development research, product development activities, and R&D support for manufacturing process development & troubleshooting.• Leads funded research activities. Prepares grant applications to support internal & external research efforts and build strategic partnerships. Acts as PI on prime contracts and site PI/co-I on subaward contracts.•Prepares or supervises preparation of peer-reviewed publications & presentations to demonstrate product capabilities and support regulatory and marketing claims.•Represents company at tradeshows and technical conferences.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Responsibilities: •Management of SINTX intellectual property portfolio - In concert with CSO, preparation of patent applications and coordination with legal team to maintain existing portfolio.•Management of external research activities - In concert with CSO, coordinate execution of contracted and collaborative work with private labs, university partners, partner organizations, and national labs.•Oversite and guidance of internal R&D team activities through R&D Manager - guide application development research, support product development activities, and support manufacturing process development & troubleshooting.•Prepare grant applications to support internal & external research efforts.•Prepare peer-reviewed publications & presentations to support technical and marketing claims.•Represent company at tradeshows and technical conferences.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

•Lead cross-functional team for commercialization of PEEK-silicon nitride composite biomaterial.•Lead research and development efforts for next-generation enhanced bioactivity silicon nitrides.•Recruited and supervised multi-disciplinary SINTX internal R&D team.•Designed and managed new SINTX R&D lab.•Worked with CSO to manage and participate in external research collaborations.•Functioned as internal expert to support manufacturing, marketing, and commercial partners.•Represented company as subject matter expert at numerous tradeshows and technical conferences.•First or contributing author of ten (10) peer-reviewed technical papers or proceedings.•Presenting author of eight (8) peer-reviewed and one (1) invited technical conference presentations.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

•Proposed and led development of process modifications that resulted in 25% increase in average flexural strength of silicon nitride material from ~1000 MPa to 1250 MPa. Refined material thought to be the strongest commercially available silicon nitride worldwide.•Proposed and collaboratively developed osteoconductive bioactive glazes for silicon nitride and related materials. Patent granted (US9925295).•Collaborated to develop methods to reduce wear in silicon nitride/polyethylene couples for arthroplasty applications. Patent in process (Appl.# 62655457).•Performed numerous characterization activities and consultations to support manufacturing process development and troubleshooting.•Managed research consultant.•Worked with CTO/CSO to manage and participate in external research collaborations. This included activities at universities, national labs, and industrial partners.•Responsible for operation of SINTX R&D lab.•Directly interfaced with surgeons and dentists to explain technical benefits of using silicon nitride material to support sales and development partnerships.•Represented company as subject matter expert at numerous tradeshows and technical conferences.•First or contributing author of 14 peer-reviewed technical papers and proceedings.•Presenting author of 14 peer-reviewed technical conference presentations.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

•Proposed and collaboratively developed methods to improve biomaterial surface resistance to bacterial colonization. Patent in process (Appl.# 61644906).•Proposed, developed, & implemented firing process modifications that increased product yields by >15% and saved organization >$1,000,000/yr. in scrap costs.•Proposed and led development of novel zirconia-toughened alumina formulation that prevented problem of low temperature degradation by using equimolar +3 & +5 cation dopants to prevent oxygen vacancy formation. Patent granted (US9353012).•Collaboratively developed novel zirconia-toughened alumina formulation that greatly reduced problem of low temperature degradation by replacing much of the +3 cation dopant with +4 cation dopant to reduce oxygen vacancy concentration. Patent granted (US9353010).•Performed numerous characterization activities and consultations to support manufacturing process development and troubleshooting.•Led development of polishing process for silicon nitride femoral heads and acetabular liners. Process produced average roughness values of 5 nm or better without pitting or grain pull-out.•Responsible for operation of several SINTX R&D lab work cells.•Collaborated with external university partners to facilitate silicon nitride biomaterial research.•Represented company as subject matter expert at numerous tradeshows and technical conferences.•First or contributing author of 10 peer-reviewed technical papers and proceedings.•Presenting author of seven (7) peer-reviewed technical conference presentations.

Phd, Materials

Phd(C), Materials

Bs, Materials Science And Engineering