Education

• BS Applied Mechanics, UCSD
• MSME, UC Irvine

Recognition

14 US patents and 1 pending:

• Ink jet printer thermal control system (4,910,528)
• Method for making tab circuit electrical connector supporting multiple components thereon (4,989,317)
• Thermal ink jet print device having phase change cooling (5,272,491)
• Paper trays for computer driven printer (5,354,044 and 5,454,553)
• Apparatus for enhancing ink-flow reliability in a thermal-inkjet pen; method for priming and using such a pen (5,517,217)
• Multi-purpose paper path component for ink-jet printer (5,581,289)
• Modular wiping unit for inkjet print (5,644,346)
• Inkjet printer with variable wiping capabilities for multiple printheads (5,644,347)
• Combined central and lateral hold-down plates, and end-of-page advance-distance decrease, in liquid-ink printers (5,646,667)
• Wet-wiping technique for inkjet printhead (5,847,727)
• Scanner carriage lamp reflector and method of using same (5,973,815)
• Wiping system for inkjet printer (6,000,780)
• Spectrally balanced scanner (6,219,159)
• Dried blood spot collection device (WO2016025709A1)

Interests / Obsessions

• Autopoiesis
• Complex adaptive systems

Favorite Quote

Expertise

• Systems engineering and analysis
• Micro-mechanical design
• Fluids and heat transfer

Experience

• Inkjet printer design and development
• Printhead design and development
• Optical scanner design and development
• Production line tooling
• Automated manufacturing
• Globalization facilitator for low-cost manufacturing
• FEA structural and thermal modeling
• Computational fluid dynamics modeling
• Thermosiphon solar hot water systems
• Micro-mechanical lancing
• Opto-mechanical algorithm development
• Instructor, AMES 156A, Mechanical Engineering Design, UCSD. Senior-level design course: stress-strain, static and dynamic; materials; fasteners and welds; springs; transmission and gearing; clutches and brakes, axles and bearings; statistics, reliability, worst-casing and tolerancing.