Thomas Duvall Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

• Designed, assembled, and tested an interface-able test fixture replicating the inputs of a robotic surgical system, allowing for full articulation, motor-powered firing, and positional lockout of a surgical stapling.
• Designed, assembled, and tested a test fixture and created a test procedure to collect deflection data of a critical surgical stapler component during operation, resulting in the ability to inform surgeons of.
• Designed, assembled, and tested several tensile test mounting fixtures, allowing for regulated medical device tensile testing to be conducted on products of complex geometries, utilizing strong tight tolerance design.
• Designed, assembled, and tested an air leakage test fixture, allowing for adherence to regulated testing of air leakage and pressure difference across a critical valve within a trocar device to be done in-house
• Created several technical component drawings supporting the design and manufacturing of a new surgical device

Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, United States

• Contract work for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate
• Designed, prototyped, and fabricated several custom parts and mounts for various material imaging, wear testing, and surface finishing rigs and test fixtures, allowing for significant reduction in test and run times
• Designed, assembled, and tested devices for preparing test specimens for high speed and temperature surface wear testing, greatly reducing test preparation and run time
• Modeled various high-speed bearing and surface wear testing devices to examine component clearances under full testing range of motion, deflection, and thermal expansion, designing testing device enclosures as informed.
• Operated high-powered imaging tools such as microscopes, surface scanners, and profilometers and helped to develop procedures for quickly imaging samples after testing, allowing for considerable reductions in test.
• Collection and visualization of high-speed bearing load, vibration, and run time testing sensor data

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Buckeye BikeHub @ The Ohio State University
• Collaborated closely with team and customers to analyze bike issues, determine a solution, and work to solve the problem in a timely manner to ensure a quick turnaround for customers
• Used various tools, problem identification and solving, and teamwork to quickly repair customer bikes
• Handled customer payments and front desk operations to ensure a positive customer experience
• Communicated thoroughly with customers and team about the repair process and educated customers about bike maintenance when possible
• Worked entirety of fall and spring semesters while balancing full academic course load