Stephen Schwaner, Phd Email & Phone Number

Greater Savannah Area

Greater Savannah Area

• Drive continuous improvement of clear aligner manufacturing and business practices using a wide range of skills.
• Write custom software (Python) to automate manufacturing processes and quality checks.
• Ideate solutions and provide specs to external partners for automating data flow.
• Present to customers and solicit customer feedback. Lead improvement efforts to reduce complaints.
• Extract (SQL), process (Python, Excel), and present data on KPIs and Quality Metrics to leadership.
• Design and perform equipment validations (IQ, OQ, PQ) to FDA standards.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Performed analyses, managed projects, and communicated results to provide excellent service to the clients of the Biomechanics, Biomedical, and Mechanical Engineering Practices at Exponent.
• Analyzed injury biomechanics to determine injury mechanism and likelihood.
• Managed client relationships: collected client requirements, crafted presentations, and managed logistics.
• Performed data analysis, data visualization, and workflow automation using MATLAB and Python.
• Contributed to computer modeling of medical devices to simulate mechanical stress and strain on devices and bodily tissues.
• Managed multiple concurrent projects: led teams under tight timelines, managed budgets up to $250K, planned tests and simulations.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Performed FEA and experimental work to advance the glaucoma biomechanics field.
• Used Python and FEA software to automate FEA model construction and analysis.
• Generated and analyzed over 1200 unique simulations to identify important factors in ocular biomechanics.
• Developed a workflow for building subject-specific FEA models of posterior eye.
• Designed and optimized a protocol to characterize material properties of ocular tissues using Digital Image Correlation, Mechanical Testing, and Inverse FEA.
• Communicated results through conference presentations and scientific papers (10 published).

• Carried out testing, analyzed data, and presented findings to advance surgical robot development.
• Operated a surgical navigation system to track surgical tool position and orientation during mock knee replacement surgeries performed on cadavers.
• Authored MATLAB code to analyze data collected during cadaver surgeries. Used code to determine the required ranges of robot end effector positions and orientations for partial and total knee replacement procedures.
• Communicated findings regarding surgical robot forward kinematics to both engineers and nurses. Suggested testing method improvements for better assessment of required robot capabilities in a technical report and.

Notre Dame, Indiana

• Reviewed literature for protocols on adhering strain gauges and pressure transducers to bones and implemented findings on pig femurs for bone loading tests. Assisted with mechanical loading of femurs using an MTS.
• Acquired µCT scans of pig femurs and segmented scan geometries into computational fluid dynamics models.

Notre Dame, Indiana

• Maintained order and a sense of community in Keenan Hall
• Organized social events for community building

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Researched time domain reflectometry equipment, organized demos, and compiled a technical review of model capabilities.
• Reviewed datasheets of several hundred circuit board components to check for manufacturing issues and to update records.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering