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Barbara Ringold

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Coon Rapids, Mn. 55448

Home – 763-***-****

Cell – 763-***-****

Objective: To utilize my skills and experience as a Lead Research and Development Technician to

successfully develop new and innovative products; and transferring them to manufacturing using Lean

Manufacturing and Born Lean and other effective and efficient techniques.

Qualifications: As a process development technician for diagnostic and ablation catheters; PV Balloons

and a research and development technician for aortic valve delivery systems, I have the experience of

working closely with design and process engineers to bring new products from the earliest stages of

development to full production and manufacturing. I possess excellent communication and written skills,

as well as the ability to prioritize in a very demanding and ever changing atmosphere. I am self motivated,

self directed and productive professional. I am honest, trustworthy and objective individual that is a data

driven decision maker who's able to balance "big picture" needs with day-to-day details.

EMPLOYMENT:

11/2007 – Present – Senior Technician, Research and Development/Technician Team Lead, Aortic

Valve Replacement Delivery System, Heartleaflet Technologies

Responsibilities:

*To work closely with design engineers to bring new products from development to

manufacturing.

*To lead the technician team and delegate assignments as required by engineering team.

requests.

*Identify tooling and fixtures needed by assembly team for low and high volume production...Identify

sources,

develop concepts, and oversee builds and implementation.

*Assist engineering with qualification on new tooling and fixtures.

*Build prototypes to written and verbal instructions

*Document results of characterizations, DOE runs, DVT build, qualification builds, special

requests/experiments

requested by manufacturing or design engineering.

*Analyzes statistical data from Design Verification and Clinical builds using Minitab and Excel

*Set Up, maintain Applied Stats Files

*Maintain Access Database, tracking all builds per project

*Troubleshoot and suggest creative solutions to process and design issues

*Communicate assignment status to engineers

*Plan and execute Attribute Test Method Validations

*Technical Protocol/ Report writing

*Work cross functionally to ensure efficient and effective transfers of products to production and

continuous improvement efforts

Accomplishments:

*Successfully developed the aortic delivery system to achieve “First in Human” devices

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05/2004 – 11/2007 - Technician II, Process Development, Peripheral Vascular Balloons, Boston

Scientific

Responsibilities:

*To work closely with design and manufacturing engineers to bring new products from

development to

manufacturing.

*Assist in the development of manufacturing processes. Review and edit manufacturing processes per

engineer

requests.

*Identify tooling and fixtures needed by assembly team for low and high volume production...Identify

sources,

develop concepts, and oversee builds and implementation.

*Assist engineering with qualification on new tooling and fixtures.

*Build prototypes to written and verbal instructions

*Document results of characterizations, DOE runs, DVT build, qualification builds, special

requests/experiments

requested by manufacturing or design engineering.

*Analyzes statistical data from Design Verification and Clinical builds using Minitab and Excel

*Set Up, maintain Applied Stats Files

*Maintain Access Database, tracking all builds per project

*Troubleshoot and suggest creative solutions to process and design issues

*Communicate assignment status to engineers

*Plan and execute Attribute Test Method Validations

*Technical Protocol/ Report writing

*Work cross functionally to ensure efficient and effective transfers of products to production.

Accomplishments:

*Promoted to Technician II in 18 months of employment

*Received Quality Award for significantly reducing scrap

07/2000 - 05/2004 - Sr. Assembler/Acting Technician, EP Systems, Medtronic

Responsibilities:

*To work closely with design and manufacturing engineers to bring new products from

development to

manufacturing.

*Assist in the development of manufacturing processes. Review and edit manufacturing processes per

engineer

requests.

*Identify tooling and fixtures needed by assembly team for low and high volume production...Identify

sources,

develop concepts, and oversee builds and implementation.

*Assist engineering with qualification on new tooling and fixtures.

*Build prototypes to written and verbal instructions

*Document results of characterizations, DOE runs, DVT build, qualification builds, special

requests/experiments

requested by manufacturing or design engineering.

*Provide training to assembly team on newly developed processes and tooling.

*Provide leadership on assembly floor.

*Provide work direction to assemblers.

*Interview potential employees for open positions on assembly floor.

*Perform and monitor SPC charting

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*Label, package and ship products to sterilizer per process.

Accomplishments:

*Selected as a Line Lead and within 4 months was able to identify bottle necks and reconfigure process

including

lowering product lot sizes witch ultimately led to improved yields from 50% to 90 + %, (reduced

scrap by 40%),

shortened lead time and improved over all assembler morale.

*Assisted engineering in Design of Experiments to identify critical variables in order to redesign a

troublesome

catheter. With implementing these changes, were then able to consistently produce this particular

product within

specification.

06/1999 - 07/2000 - Assembler, Neuro Division, Medtronic

Responsibilities:

*Build spinal leads as specified in process

*Perform Laser Weld to spinal leads

*Perform Final Inspection to spinal leads

*Build monthly schedules as dictated by schedulers

Education:

*1979 - 1982 - High School Diploma. Mounds View High School

*2001 - present - pursuing an Associates Degree in Biomedical Technology

*2007 - 2009 completes an Associates in Business Arts

*2009 – present – pursuing Bachelors of Science in Business/Global Business Management

Other Training:

*Good Documentation Practices

*Hands On Statistics

*Quality Systems Basic

*Lean 101A

*Lean 10IB Foundation (Wrksp)

*Six Sigma Yellow Belt

*Testing For Normality

*Validation Sampling Plans

*Process Validation

*Risk Management

*Quality Systems

*DCM Workshop

*Lean PDP

*Design for Six Sigma

*DOE

*Regulatory Affairs 101

* Microsoft Office software including the construction of Access Database

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