Experience

LivaNova Advanced Circulatory Support (TandemLife)

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Performs design and analysis work on electromechanical systems for innovative medical devices. Troubleshoots existing components and systems and implements design changes. Designs new medical devices with an aim toward manufacturability, user-friendliness, and patient-focused performance. Designs, builds, and implements test fixtures. Part of a multidisciplinary product development team that interfaces with manufacturing and marketing. Performs design and analysis work on electromechanical systems for innovative medical devices. Troubleshoots existing components and systems and implements design changes. Designs new medical devices with an aim toward manufacturability, user-friendliness, and patient-focused performance. Designs, builds, and implements test fixtures. Part of a multidisciplinary product development team that interfaces with manufacturing and marketing.



All-Clad Metalcrafters

• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Development Specialist

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2018

  Collaborates with both international and local team members to perform various research activities related to the development of new cookware products as well as new manufacturing processes and materials. Works with industrial teams to transition new products from the prototype stage to pilot runs, to mass production. Interfaces with marketing team to insure that new products meet the demands of modern consumers. -Helped develop a novel process for manufacturing stick resistant bonded-metal cookware that does not require nonstick (PTFE, ceramic, etc) coatings. -Worked on high-performance, lightweight cookware that utilizes advanced, non-metallic thermal management materials. -Worked on a new process for joining metals that allows for cost savings, reduced scrap, and can form previously impossible metal combinations. Show less



Separation Design Group

• Research Engineer

  • Oct 2006 - Oct 2012

  Worked as part of a multidisciplinary product development team to create novel technologies for use in medical devices and energy conversion systems. Developed new oxygen concentration technology that enables the creation of a portable medical oxygen concentrator that is 50% lighter and able to operate twice as long on a battery charge as units with comparable oxygen output. The technology also enabled the creation of a personal oxygen concentrator that weighs approximately one pound, and a miniature wound-therapy device. Co-authored successful proposals to government agencies (NSF, NIH, and PEDA) as well as private investors. Designed and developed prototypes of a novel type of external combustion engine, and participated in a project to install parabolic trough concentrating solar-thermal panels that can be used to heat a building and generate electricity. Show less



West Virginia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Jul 2003 - May 2005

  Participated in research activities which included analysis of data from intelligent structures, advanced vehicle design using composite material, and finite element analysis of bridges and other civil structures. Assisted in the installation of a system of over 750 sensors on Star City Bridge; Travelled to various instrumented structures and collected data and performed field maintenance of the data collection systems and sensors. Reduced and analyzed data collected from intelligent structures. Show less