Engineering the future today:

With 15 years in mechanical design and technical project management across semiconductor, optics, and medical device industries, I combine real mechanical curiosity, hands-on skill, and a commitment to excellence to help you achieve your biggest technical goals.

From managing a small team of engineers and industrial designers to design and manufacture a novel new medical device or designing automated inspection stations for an Augmented Reality Goggles assembly line, I’ve developed the skills to bring your vision into reality.

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Mechanical Design Manager - Medical device Start-up

A medical device with multiple sensors, circular lenses, and LED lights mounted on a white handle against a green background.
A populated CAD model of a surgical equipment that includes a robotic arm on top, mounted on a wheeled cart. The machine contains multiple internal components such as circuit boards, drives, and electronic modules.

● Managed a cross-functional team including optical, electrical and software engineers as well as an industrial designer.

● Helped develop system architecture and define system requirements.

● Managed all quoting and ordering of custom equipment. Including optics, 3D printed, CNC machined and sheet metal parts.

● Designed and detailed all opto-mechanical assemblies and components.

● Managed all vendors.

A CAD model of a hand held surgical device with the laser optical path shown for illustration.
A healthcare worker wearing PPE, including a protective gown, mask, and goggles, with a virtual reality headset on.

optomechanical design engineer - augmented reality goggles inpsections

● Designed transmission inspection station for mass production of optical arrays for next gen. Magic Leap Augmented Reality glasses. Included precision Z-stage to lift optics. Capable of sub 25 sec. inspections for automated assembly line. Managed draftsmen to create assembly instructions.

● Designed profile inspection station utilizing autocollimator for Magic Leap. Included 3-axis stage for XYZ control.

● Designed air-gap inspection station utilizing interferometer. Included 3-axis stage for XYZ control.

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A vertical industrial machine with a yellow top, gray middle section, mounted on a colorful support structure with various components, set against a pink background.
A detailed diagram of a robotic arm with multiple components, including a blue and green main structure, yellow arms, purple modules, and various mechanical parts.
A laboratory setup with a metal enclosure containing tubes and pipes connected to tanks labeled DIW TANK and IPA TANK, alongside a computer monitor displaying a process flow diagram and scattered tools and parts on the table.

Technical Project managment

● Developed fully-automated membrane testing machine based on manual research and development lab test. Included logging of results on on-premises server and meeting fire safety requirements.

● Led Engineering and Production teams to develop and document equipment requirements for quoting process as well as Factory Acceptance Testing and Site Acceptance Testing documents. I performed multiple Factory Acceptance Tests as well.

● Worked with Sales, Mechanical, Electrical & New Product Integration engineers, project managers, Logistics and Finance teams (both USA and Taiwan) overseeing the purchase, building, testing, shipping and import of 17 Tools for a new production facility underway in Taiwan. This involved working with personnel from Taiwan to Sweden.

Mechanical design - high vacuum spectroscopy inspection

● Developed 2nd gen. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer into world’s 1st in-line production inspection tool. Also debuted as the world's 1st multi-element inspection tool. This system utilized a radio frequency generated plasma and required designing for an Ultra High Vacuum scanning environment.

● Analyzed 400 lb. lid/optics assembly of X-Ray spectroscopy inspection Tool for operator access utilizing Finite Element Analysis and Free Body Diagrams to validate safety for certification.

● Managed Top-Level assembly of both SIMS tool and X-Ray spectrometry tool in SolidWorks. SIMS tool was the largest file that Solidworks Distributor had ever seen. Oversaw software update including Vault.

complex integration!
A complex scientific or technical equipment with numerous wires, pipes, and electronic components, possibly used for research or experimentation in a laboratory setting.

Senior optomechanical design engineer - large custom optics

● Designed fixturing to manufacture precision optics and kinematic tooling for interferometric inspections of large optics for satellites.

● Designed tooling to handle large optic substrates (1.5 meter OD, 450 lb.) for the Thirty Meter Telescope project currently under way in Hawaii. This required FEA analysis to guarantee substrate and personal safety.

● Performed coating stress analysis of optics utilizing FEA to guarantee prescription in zero gravity environment.

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Optomechanical design engineer - semiconductor capital equipment

A complex mechanical device with various colorful components, mounted inside a transparent enclosure.

● Used Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing to design passive alignment tooling to specification for brightfield objective lens array. Included FEA stress analysis on flexures. The tooling helped System Engineers to seamlessly integrate Next Generation Objective Lens ahead of schedule.

● Used understanding of manufacturing processes and GD & T to improve design of prototype optical alignment tooling.

● Managed Collection Optics System Solid model assembly.

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