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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Customer communications with relationship building, project planning and monitoring, hands on multidisciplinary engineering guidance and problem solving, risk mitigation identification and execution for multiple million dollar plus programs.- Q2'22 Key Contributor Award Winner for organizing and effectively leading a cross-disciplinary automation development team serving a top 6 account.

Mt. Sterling, Ohio, Us

• Forward looking role involving strategic business planning with technology identification and preliminary proof of application.• Designed and developed prosthetic medical products leading small teams resulting in patent-pending human interface for myoelectric control, novel fiber composite construction and other advances.• Created project requirements and detailed project financials with timelines to guide development teams for over 65 projects under ISO13485 QMS framework. Created strategic product and technology roadmaps. • Applied a wide range of technologies including 3D printing, machining, electronics, polymer molding, textile construction, and C++ programming.• Collaboratively established and led cross-departmental innovation idea pipeline to determine what products to develop. Found and evaluated over 800 medical device product and service ideas regarding technical feasibility and market viability.• Conducted business development and consulting with outside entities such as startups, individual inventors, academic and government entities to generate new products.• Conducted research on prosthetic product efficacy and advances such as efferent sensory feedback from prosthesis sensors directly into amputees’ nervous system. Collected and analyzed outcome data.

Mt. Sterling, Ohio, Us

• Led multidisciplinary engineering department of 25 to release over 40 different prosthetic medical products. Supervised prototype tooling machine shop (manual and CNC mills and lathes) and test laboratory.• New product releases resulted in tens of millions of dollars in revenue.• Reorganized department into focused teams that increased efficiency and improved overall teamwork, quality of design and pace of product release threefold in first 3 years.• Software developments included embedded control of prosthesis components, wireless BLE communications with data collection, and Windows desktop based 3D design application used to create customized prosthetic shapes.

Cambridge, On, Ca

• Developed and delivered $5M worth of custom automation equipment via 10 different projects servicing 5 major customers in the US and Europe under ISO 9001 QMS framework.• Developed custom VB .NET service application to collect production data and store in SQL2000 database server from equipment PLCs. Provided on-site AB ControlLogix PLC software development and support for $7M industrial equipment installation.

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Oversaw software C++ development and QA testing for pharmaceutical chemistry application before US operations were shuttered.

Poway, California, Us

Profitably managed five engineering development teams working on semiconductor manufacturing equipment which generated $30+ million in yearly revenue. Responsible for site with 40 employees in engineering, prototype manufacturing, and IT.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed multidisciplinary teams of engineers developing semiconductor manufacturing equipment.Team won Best in Test 2001 for IHS 1100 Thermal-Control Test Handler from Test & Measurement World.Developed encapsulation system that radically changed the methodology for fabrication with billion-dollar impact on customer’s sales and production costs.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General