Dave is a seasoned mechanical engineer who loves to collaborate with skilled and passionate designers to create solutions to solve the customer’s needs. He especially enjoys the satisfaction of finding a way forward through challenging design problems and learning something along the way. His early work in aerospace electronic packaging and thermal analysis formed a foundation for his extensive experience as a design engineer of medical and enterprise products.
Expertise
- Product design and manufacturing processes
- Design and development of catheter handles and shafts and surgical devices
- Design and implementation of circuit boards, electronic housings and cables
- Ideation and development of mechanisms
- Finite element modeling and testing
- Solidworks CAD
Experience
- Olympus Surgical Technologies America
- Real Time Sampling System- handle design for ultrasonically guided FNA biopsy system for pulmonary access via a bronchoscope
- PathCreator- handle design for device deployment to relieve bile duct obstruction through GI scope access as well as device development for creating an initial stoma for bile drainage
- Stratos Product Development Group (sampling of projects)
- Designed implantable package for a gait monitor for Canary Medical
- Created a breath capture device for monitoring metabolic acetone levels for GM Nameplate
- Architected a unique catheter control handle of AAA device for W.L. Gore & Associates
- Devised and designed several mechanisms for Hewlett Packard
- Designed and prototyped structures, control boxes and mechanisms for the MATS fish tagging system for Northwest Marine Systems (award winning design)
- CoAptus Medical
- Designed and developed a catheter handle and shaft intended for the treatment of PFO (a type of heart defect)
- Olin Aerospace (PED)
- Designed, analyzed and tested 3 avionic LRUs for the CL415 Water Bomber
- Supported build and analysis of various other electronic assemblies
- Boeing Aerospace and Electronics
- Staff thermal analysist
- Staff electronics packaging engineer for various projects including the Sea Lance missile and the Comanche attack helicopter.
Education
- BSME, University of Washington
Recognition / Awards
- Professional Engineer (license not active)
Patents:
20 US Patents plus various foreign and pending
- Implantable reporting processor for an alert implant (11,045,139 et al.)
- Rotational tissue cutting device (10,813,659)
- Rotational tissue cutting control device (10,779,850)
- Deployment Handle for a medical device deployment system (10,765,543)
- Breath sampling and analysis device (10,458,992 et al.)
- Systems and methods for transeptal cardiac procedures (8,308,763)
- Tendon and ligament repair system (6,106,556 et al.)
- Compact computer (D413,308)
- Spiral binding method and apparatus (5,584,632 et al.)
Interests / Obsessions
- Wife, 3 children and extended family
- Active leader in local Scout troop
- Tinkering in the shop
Favorite Quote
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
~ Thomas A. Edison