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