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`120 Wilderness Cay
`Naples, FL 34114
`Phone: (786)299-2528
`Email: polymer.med@gmail.com
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`Self-Employed Consultant
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`Cordis Corporation, a Cardinal Health Company
`Senior QA Engineer – Part Time Consultant
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`Cordis Corporation, a Johnson and Johnson Company
`Senior Research Fellow – Causal, Part Time Employee
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`PolyEngineer, LLC
`Consultant and Sole Owner
`Clients:
`Gaumard Scientific, Inc.- Manufacturer of Medical Simulators
`Sidley Austin, LLP- Law Firm
`Johnson & Johnson- Medical Device Manufacturer
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`Cordis Corporation, a Johnson and Johnson Company
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`Senior Research Fellow
`Engineering Fellow
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`Cordis Corporation
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`Principal Materials Engineer
`Senior Manufacturing Engineer
`Supervisor, Production Engineering
`Manufacturing Engineer
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`Professional Experience
`2017 – Present
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`2015 to 2017
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`2010 to 2015
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`2008 to 2010
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`1996 to 2008
`Positions
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`April 2001 – July 2008
`June 1996 – April 2001
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`1982 to 1996
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`June 1988 to June 1996
`June 1985 to June 1988
`July 1983 to April 1985
`April 1982 to July 1983
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`Career Highlights
`Mentoring
`- Mentored scores of engineers who made significant contributions to the design and implementation
`of medical devices.
`- Held leadership positions, managing the activities of up to ten engineers and technicians.
`Process Engineering
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`Experienced in all phases of small diameter medical extrusions. Specified equipment and
`implemented first use for Cordis of most of their polymer melt processes.
`Experienced in all phases of catheter manufacturing.
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`- Developed Cordis’ first commercially successful angioplasty balloon blowing process. Process used
`for 35 years.
`- Developed stent/balloon attachment methods, received the Philip B Hoffman Research Scientist
`Award.
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`Implemented electropolishing process for cobalt-chrome alloys using chemicals of low toxicity.
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`Involved in the most important process troubleshooting needs of the company.
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`Interfaced with FDA inspectors during facility inspections and technical discussions.
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`- Well versed in polymer properties.
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`Design Experience
`- Development of highly radiopaque soft tips for angiographic and guide catheters, Cordis Brite Tip®
`catheters.
`Introduced first use of several polymer chemistries to catheter construction. A variety of commercial
`products are based on these polymers including: Stent Delivery Systems, PTCA catheters, PTA
`catheters, coronary angiographic catheters, guide catheters and neurological catheters.
`Together with two other collaborators devised “semi-compliant balloon technology” that is used by
`all manufacturers of angioplasty balloons.
`Introduced multiple layer extrusions, used in the construction of several important products.
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`- Designed kink resistance shaft components for rapid exchange catheters. This design resulted in a
`rapid increase in sales over previous designs.
`Introduced new silicone materials and designs to medical simulator industry.
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`Education
`1980 B.S. (Chemistry), Florida International University
`1996 Certificate (Polymer Sciences and Processing), Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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`Major Awards
`Johnson and Johnson
`Johnson and Johnson
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`Non-Profit Board Membership
`2009 to Present – President, Friends of the Florida Panther Refuge
`This organization fulfills a mission of supporting the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and
`continued survival of wild Florida panthers.
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`Excellence in Science, 1996
`Philip B Hoffman Research Scientist Award, 2002
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