SUMMARY

Successful project engineering manager, product system developer, patent analyst, inventor, business analyst, design manufacturing engineer medical, industrial, public private domestic international

SKILLS

• MANAGEMENT: engineering/project PMP manager, contract manufacturing CM manager, ISO .
• DESIGN: medical/consumer/industrial electro - mechanical products, pressure/flow intravascular guide-wires and wired/wireless connectors, ultra-sound catheters, custom connectors and cables, RFID sensor Internet-of-Things, IoT applications, injection/micro molding, flexible/printed electronics, IC/MEMS packaging, PCB/flex/thin-film/thick-film circuits, design for manufacturing DFM, SolidWorks.
• MANUFACTURING: intravascular guide-wires/catheters, micro-wire, 3D printing, wafer thinning/handling, die-attach, wirebond, stud-bump, pick-place, machine vision, robotics, CNC, lasers, fiber optics, CAM, work-flow modeling, statistical process control SPC, design of experiments DOE, Motorola Six Sigma - 6 .
• SOFTWARE/IT: MS Office Project, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Visual Basic, C, UNIX, web/database applications, agile/eXtreme programming XP .
• INTERNATIONAL: fluent Spanish Bolivia 2yr, business in Canada, China, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, Philippines.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Led sub-project to research and assess available solutions and optimal timing to implement Legacy Data Repository LDR for State agencies participating in Financial Information System for California FI Cal .
• Authored LDR Whitepaper, Project Charter, Executive Updates and weekly/monthly/ad-hoc status reports.
• Led project team through discovery, evaluation, documentation and summarization.
• Presented LDR Whitepaper and supporting PowerPoint to executive staff ratified.
• Navigated unique Change Management process and coordinated team interactions with technical, vendor, executive, customer and project participants.

Confidential

Engineering Project Manager

• PM/Architect of next-generation surgery sensor communication hub featuring connector-less RF interface for unobtrusive energy and data link to pressure and flow guide-wires.
• PM/Business unit expert for patent and technical research-appraisal of Volcano and industry IP. Maintained database of >4100 technical papers and patents. Inventor on 44 patent applications.
• PM/Developed novel electro-mechanical guide-wire connector via contracted design and manufacturing services. Led formal process to design-verify-release functionally and cosmetically improved connector-cable assembly. Reduced part count 32 and unit cost 45 .
• Manufacturing lead on project to commercialize Optical Coherence Tomography OCT system and disposables for high-resolution vascular imaging. Generated optical-electrical schematic and design specifications. Evaluated and selected optical connectors, cables and suppliers.

Confidential

Site Implementation Manager

• Led flawless CCSAS-CSE California Child Support Automation System Child Support Enforcement implementation in 5 remote/geographically dispersed counties: Inyo, Mono, Glenn, Del Norte and Humboldt. Simultaneously coordinated teams in project office to counterparts in each county 70 individuals.
• Face of project in county responsible for county-county execution of Change Management, User Training, Data Conversion, Hardware-Software, Local Interface, Site-Setup, Telephony.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager Manufacturing Automation Manager

• Designed and implemented novel business and technical processes to repurpose rejected ICs and generate 7M/year. Coordinated project research and development activities throughout Europe, Asia and Americas.
• Managed software group implementing tactical and strategic automation for department and corporate initiatives. Investigated as-is, designed to-be, prototyped-resourced-delivered numerous software systems and tools to enhance throughput and quality of business and manufacturing processes.
• Established formal review of automation roadmap created tool to track and assess project proposals.

Confidential

Engineering Co-Director -Software Development and Test Engineering

Managed 8M annual budget plus 15 test, software and QA engineers, developing home security products.

Confidential

Hardware/Integration Project Manager

PM/Led design, manufacture and regulatory approval of commercial PC and VME open-architecture controller, and integration with numerous 3rd party robotic and CNC mechanisms.

Confidential

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Integrated CAD and manufacturing via custom database and software interface to automate fabrication and assembly of complex PCB, Thin-Film, Thick-Film and Flex circuits.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Auxiliary small vasculature guide-wire US, WO A1
• Capacitive Intravascular Pressure-Sensing Devices and Associated Systems and Methods US, WO A1
• Catheter with balloon and imaging US
• Connectors for Use With Intravascular Devices and Associated Systems and Methods US
• Devices, Systems, and Methods For Assessment of Vessels US, WO A1
• Display Control for a Multi-Sensor Medical Device US, WO A1
• Guide-wire concierge US, WO A1
• Guide-wire with centering mechanism US
• Guide-wire with touch sensor US
• Imaging devices and methods of use thereof US
• Intraluminal imaging system
• Intravascular Devices Having Artificial Muscles and Associated Systems and Methods
• Intravascular Devices Having Information Stored Thereon and/or Wireless Communication Functionality, Including Associated Devices, Systems, And Methods,
• Intravascular Devices, Systems, and Methods A1
• Methods and Apparatus for Neuromodulation Utilizing Optical-Acoustic Sensors
• Mounting Structures for Components of Intravascular Devices
• Pressure-Sensing Intravascular Devices, Systems, and Methods
• Sensing guide-wires with a centering element and methods of use thereof
• Single coil contact guide-wire connector
• System and method for guide-wire control
• System and Method for Multi-Site Intravascular Measurement
• Systems and methods for determining coronary flow reserve
• Systems and methods for predicting impact of a catheter on curvature of a vessel