Santa Clara, California, United States
Mechanical engineer with extensive experience in medical device industry.
• Design and validate vision calibration and test equipment.
• Responsible for test method development/design verification/design validation to gain indication expansion for embolic protection system. • Lead engineer for development of delivery catheter for drug eluting bio-resorbable scaffold. • Sustaining R&D responsibilities for endovascular product portfolio, including embolic protection delivery and retrieval catheters, self-expanding stent delivery catheters, balloon-expandable stent delivery catheters, and balloon dilatation catheters.
• Responsible for developing a new brain implant, designed to restore vision to blind patients • Designed extracranial cover that protects implant against mechanical impact, and successfully completed design verification testing • Developed automated ND:YAG laser welding process to join two dissimilar metals • Main tooling designer for new product development, testing and manufacturing - Custom automation fixtures for cycle-testing electronics hardware case - Laser welding fixture, braze fixture, pressure chamber, and silicone mold for a micro-fabricated flexible circuit • US Patent 10493267 – Electrode Arrays for a Visual Prosthesis
• Develop and maintain key components and processes for the world’s leading retinal prosthesis technology, also known as the bionic eye. • Specialize in laser welding, brazing, ultrasonic welding, Helium leak testing, cross-sectioning, silicone molding, coil winding, final cleaning, sterile packaging, and CMM automation. • Conduct design verification, process validation (IQ, OQ, PQ), FMEA, failure analysis. • Perform tool/fixture design, machining, rapid prototyping, and advanced part modeling/surfacing using Solidworks • Draft and review engineering drawings, applying GD&T per ASME Y14.5 and tolerance analysis. • Qualify suppliers for component fabrication, subassemblies, and testing services.