Experience

CAA ICON

• United States
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jan 2018 - Present

• Senior Associate

  • May 2014 - Dec 2017

• Mastors Degree Intern

  • Sep 2013 - May 2014



Stryker

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Engineer, Joint Preservation

  • Dec 2011 - Jun 2013

  • Complaint investigation, monitoring trends, root cause analysis • Improving customer experience through product and process quality improvements. • Risk analysis and root cause determination through CAPA implementation process, for identified quality issues • Evaluation of recently launched products through post market surveillance • Executed design/document changes on current medical device products and documents completed via ECR/ECO process • Complaint investigation, monitoring trends, root cause analysis • Improving customer experience through product and process quality improvements. • Risk analysis and root cause determination through CAPA implementation process, for identified quality issues • Evaluation of recently launched products through post market surveillance • Executed design/document changes on current medical device products and documents completed via ECR/ECO process



DePuy Orthopaedics

• Warsaw, IN

• Product Development Engineer, Knee Product Development

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

  • Organized and lead a cadaver table with design surgeons to demonstrate uses of new instrumentation and gathered feedback • Developed innovative design concepts of knee instrumentation for new product line, generated prototypes for evaluation • Functioned on multi-functional teams to develop knee platform, well integrated with project management, marketing, quality and manufacturing • Created protocol for presentation of new developments at surgeon team meetings and presented concepts to surgeons



OrthoPediatrics

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Design Engineer, Trauma and Deformities

  • Sep 2010 - Nov 2010

  · Functioned on multi-disciplinary teams, communicated project progress and addressed open design action items; developing plates which take into consideration growth plates and curvature of adolescence bones · Preformed stack-up analysis on Tibia and Femoral plates and screws, analyzed using Unigraphics NX 7.5 · Design improvements on current orthopedic instruments · Document control ­ print review, 3D model and print updates. Enterprise Change Control process. · Functioned on multi-disciplinary teams, communicated project progress and addressed open design action items; developing plates which take into consideration growth plates and curvature of adolescence bones · Preformed stack-up analysis on Tibia and Femoral plates and screws, analyzed using Unigraphics NX 7.5 · Design improvements on current orthopedic instruments · Document control ­ print review, 3D model and print updates. Enterprise Change Control process.



Zimmer Biomet

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bio-Mechanical Engineering Co-op

  • Jan 2009 - Sep 2009

  · Worked on teams developing new anti oxidant polyethylene to increase wear property and longevity of polyethylene implants · Senior Thesis Project: Examined correlation between the Swell Ratio Tester (SRT) and the current "pin on disk" wear test process, the Ortho-Pod, for the study of wear properties of polymers and the method validation of the SRT Performed study on the SRT and Othro-POD machines to examine the wear properties of various ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) · Performed Instrument Qualification / Operation Qualification (IQ/OQ) on SRT · Diagnosed problems and calibrated the SRT machine to return it to working order · Analyzed self life study on UHMWPE sample and performed statistical analysis using Minitab 15 · Examine surface roughness on polyethylene pins for the Ortho-Pod testing using a Perthometer



Dura Automotive Systems

• Rochester Hills, MI

• Mechanical Engineering Co-op

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2008

  · Warranty monitoring of 2008 P150/ P356 tire carrier · Edited and created DFMEA's and PFMEA's · Marked up engineering drawings for design changes · Represented Dura at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant, resolved a design problem by offering a design change, which was accepted and implemented · Performed gage R&R, wrote gage instructions and gage specifications designed for new product launch · Warranty monitoring of 2008 P150/ P356 tire carrier · Edited and created DFMEA's and PFMEA's · Marked up engineering drawings for design changes · Represented Dura at Ford Chicago Assembly Plant, resolved a design problem by offering a design change, which was accepted and implemented · Performed gage R&R, wrote gage instructions and gage specifications designed for new product launch