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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pfizer Global R&D and Pfizer R&D UK Ltd - Devices Centre of Excellence (DCoE)• Managing technical and project risks, and vendors to meet timelines. • Managing technology transfer from development to production. • Mentoring team members within technical projects and career progression. • Developing novel engineering solutions for process development activities. • Developing test objectives, reviewing results, understanding impact on device/system and user.Project… Show more Pfizer Global R&D and Pfizer R&D UK Ltd - Devices Centre of Excellence (DCoE)• Managing technical and project risks, and vendors to meet timelines. • Managing technology transfer from development to production. • Mentoring team members within technical projects and career progression. • Developing novel engineering solutions for process development activities. • Developing test objectives, reviewing results, understanding impact on device/system and user.Project experience includes:• Electro-mechanical injector pen development. Technical lead from concept through to design verification, managing internal project engineers and device vendor.• Multidose prefilled injector pen. Technical lead from platform selection through to commercial. Interfacing with formulation, clinical, device vendor and manufacturing teams. • Ophthalmic implant. Collating user needs and setting specifications, vendor oversight, communication with surgeons, technical risk mitigation, development of sealing process parameters, equipment acceptance and qualification, and clinical manufacture. • Instrumented devices for user studies. Technical reviewer and data acquisition and user interface development. • Development of a novel dose mass measurement technique. Managing technical experts and machinery vendors to integrate into clinical equipment. • Managing machinery vendors through tooling and process development of a novel dry powder inhaler dose carrier and development of a high-speed powder filling process. • Test equipment: pressure perturbation leak test, x-ray inspection, inhalation profile, force and displacement measurements. Show less

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Based in the Medical Technology Business Unit, specialising in mechatronics design and implementation; integrating mechanical, electrical and software systems. Project experience includes:• Development of electro-mechanical wound care device. Implementing a functional prototype of the device control system using LabVIEW. Developing system and sub-system tests, component specifications, sourcing and testing of components. • Development of test equipment software for a stent… Show more Based in the Medical Technology Business Unit, specialising in mechatronics design and implementation; integrating mechanical, electrical and software systems. Project experience includes:• Development of electro-mechanical wound care device. Implementing a functional prototype of the device control system using LabVIEW. Developing system and sub-system tests, component specifications, sourcing and testing of components. • Development of test equipment software for a stent spraying investigation. Worked alongside physicists to develop visualisation and measurement techniques. • Process development and validation documentation for the clinical build of a dry powder inhaler. • Specification of proprietary equipment and design of control software for a diagnostic instrument performing high throughput assays. • Facilitation of a Structured Ideas Management (SIM) program for generation of Intellectual Property for a large consumer electronics manufacturer. • Detail design and prototype manufacture of a miniature optical transceiver. Show less

Enfield, United Kingdom

Responsible for process improvements on a prototype Fuel Sender assembly line. Coordinated the relocation of the process to a production plant in Hungary and provided technical support for production scale-up.Degree Industrial Placement.

Kettering, United Kingdom

University sponsorship company. Timsons Limited design, develop and manufacture web fed rotary printing presses.University sponsorship company.