Highly creative, highly practical, and very cost-effective industrial design and mechanical design solutions for your firm’s product development efforts. Industrial and mechanical designer with thirty five years of experience developing exceptionally well designed and engineered medical, laboratory, and diagnostic devices. Important contributions to several hundred successful product development projects. Areas of expertise include: ● Powerful brainstorming, conceptualization, invention, and problem-solving abilities ● Foresight in recognizing challenges early and adroit at conceiving practical solutions ● In-depth knowledge of plastic part design and injection molding tooling ● Device ergonomics ● Mechanisms and control linkages ● Liquid handling and microfluidics ● Interface lightpipe design ● Highly functional thermoformed packaging ● Advanced CAD modeling skills (Solidworks) Recent projects & clients: Immunoassay Cartridge & Instrument – Correlia Biosystems Influenza Diagnostic Test Device – Lucira Health Exercise Equipment Lift Mechanism – AlterG Smart Household Air Freshener – Proctor & Gamble Microfluidics Chip Package – 10X Genomics Hearing Aid Storage Case – Whisper Molded & Thermoformed Packaging – Yuto Creative Design SpaceSaver, GreenPak, & TerraRack Packaging – Rainin Instrument Cell Thawing Instrument – Biocision Diagnostic Test Cartridge – Zyomyx Experimental Product Explorations – Rainin Instrument Quantitative PCR Instrument – QuantaLife (now Bio-Rad) Handheld Steam Therapy Inhaler – Vapore Trans-Pyloric Shuttle Implant – BAROnova Microfluidics Chip Design – QuantaLife (now Bio-Rad) Solar Power Wall Display Monitoring Unit – SunPower Laparoscopic Needle Driver – Novare Surgical Systems Blood Oxygen Sensor Handpiece – ViOptix Vascular Closure Device – Access Closure Cardiac Surgical Device – Medtronics Drug Delivery Devices – Alza Therapeutics Surgical Handpiece and Deployment Mechanism – SurX And many more . . .