Mechanical Engineer Injection Molding

Steve Kabachus

*** **** ****** ****** ***** Boston, MA 02127

857-***-**** **********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Product Development & Design Engineering

Over fifteen years of progressive product development and manufacturing engineering experience. Responsible for developing and launching electro-mechanical and disposable products focused on the medical/ biotech, and industrial markets.

Design for manufacturing of medical/laboratory devices (consumables) and instrumentation (motion controlled) to meet FDA regulations. (13485/14971)

Develop components and instrumentation for separation and purification of bio molecules, DNA sequencing and protein purification.

Specify components necessary to perform automation such as stepper/servo motors, linear slides/actuators, proximity sensors, etc...

Design for manufacturing of high volume injection molded disposable medical devices (blood /insulflation, DNA purification) incorporating polymer-based membranes and depth filters.

Design of robotic instrumentation for pick-and-place, automated fluid dispensing, multi well disposable plates, test tubes and instrument components.

Provided reliability engineering (FMEA, root cause of failure and Fault Tree Analysis) to product designs and coordinated with Quality Assurance for further product design improvements.

Well versed in manufacturing processes, machining, injection molding, ultrasonic welding, casting plastic and metal, pressure forming, sheet metal fabrication, etc.

Scale consumable and durable products up from concept to manufacturing with fixture design and automation equipment.

Complex fluidic systems design.

Developed novel crash detection pipetting device for robotic liquid handling (primarily blood/urine samples).

Software: SolidWorks 2000-2015, PDMWorks, Enterprise PDM, Mechanical Desktop (3D Solids), MS Office, AutoCAD R-14 thru 2007, MS Project

EXPERIENCE

South Shore Product Development 2/2012– Present

Principal/Senior Mechanical Engineer

Provide product development to companies on a contract basis with a focus on mechanical engineering, injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, machining and design for manufacturability.

Focus on mechanical engineering of components (durable and disposable) systems and electro-mechanical instrumentation used in the analytical, bio-tech and medical markets. Some companies ompanies include:

Cytonome Boston, MA 12/2016- 2/ 2017

Senior Engineer

Design and develop packaging (sheet metal and plastic) enclosures for a novel simplified cell sorting instrumentation to research labs. Assist research scientists in the development of cell purification system with laser-based detection.

Belmont Instrument, Billerica, MA 07/2012 – 09/2012

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Developed disposable components for rapid infusion of blood and other fluids (for irrigation, chemotherapy) that interface with heating/pumping instrument for various patient applications.

Determined the most cost-effective manufacturing process to mass produce higher flow disposable sets for infusion pumps used in the warming of fluids for patients.

Iris Instrumentation, Norwood, MA 03/2012 – 06/2012

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Provided design for fluid management system for a FISH (Fluorescence, In-Situ Hybridization) test analyzer. Design includes the transport of reagents and routing to appropriate instrument component(s).

Med Robotics, Raynham, MA (start- up) 09/2011 – 12/2011

Senior Engineer

Conducted thermal analysis of a surgical robotic arm using standard heat transfer/fluid mechanics and/or CFD to ensure components are within the safe operating temperature range.

Determined corrective actions to maintain temperatures of components to function within thermal limits.

Provided direction to Packaging Designer on plastic/sheet metal enclosure design/critical cooling parameters.

Cost/component reduction of robotic arm design (servo motors, actuators) interfaced together for ease of assembly and inventory.

Aspen Products Group, Marlboro, MA

Consulted with Chemical Engineers on the design of a next generation a fuel reformer.

Performed component layout, design for assembly and reliability of high temperature/pressure components.

Direct positions:

Velico Medical, Beverly, MA (start- up) 12/2015 – 7/2016

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Bring prototype blood plasma spray drying instrument to manufacturing ready condition.

Simplify mechanical engineering systems and components that include sterile compressed air feeding a disposable blood plasma powder collection chamber.

Advanced Instruments, Norwood, MA 04/2006 – 05/2011

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Designed automated robotic clinical instrumentation for high throughput screening of liquid samples (blood/urine) to be tested via freeze point osmometry.

Systems include linear and rotary motion of primary sample tubes indexing to home location for aspiration and dispensing of samples.

Developed novel crash detection mechanism as a failsafe to sense possible empty sample tubes.

Evaluated various pump technologies (syringe pumps, peristaltic pumps and diaphragm pumps) for blood/reagent transport.

Developed anti-counterfeiting method utilizing fluorescence detection for disposable sample tubes to enhance consumable sales.

Aspen Products Group, Marlborough, MA 03/2003 – 04/2006

Senior Engineer (start-up division of Aspen Systems)

Designed, developed and tested state of the art fuel reforming hydrogen production products suitable for use with solid oxide fuel cells.

Provided development and manufacturing expertise to research scientists in the commercialization of a one-of-a-kind diesel fuel reformer. Including:

Thermal and fluid testing, analysis and characterization of diesel burners, catalytic oxidation modules and high temperature fluid components.

Designed for manufacturing high pressure and ultra-high temperature components and assemblies.

Complete prototype fabrication and prepare product for transfer to manufacturing and commercialization.

Whatman (Now GE Healthcare/Parker Balston), Newton/Haverhill, MA 05/1995 – 02/2003

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Designed and developed novel disposable medical devices, multi-well injection molded devices for various biomedical applications to meet FDA regulations.

Prepared project timelines identified resources required, and selected manufacturing processes (injection molding, machining, ultrasonic welding, and various bonding techniques) and suppliers to meet product cost goals and product commercialization schedule.

Whatman continued:

Developed novel systems (instrument and consumables) to filter heat and process whole blood for the retrieval of purified DNA.

Developed devices utilizing micro filtration and ultra-filtration membranes for the separation and purification of DNA and proteins.

Coordinated efforts with local suppliers to build assembly equipment for high volume products.

From concept to manufacturing, designed high purity gas generation and purification products used in conjunction with gas chromatography, compressed air systems, FTIR, utilizing various technologies (electrolysis, hollow fiber membrane, pressure swing adsorption, etc.

Worked concurrently with manufacturing through design process and provided documentation and support.

Interfaced with Sales/Marketing/end user to determine technical and economic feasibility of OEM/Special purification products.

Determined the most cost-effective method to manufacture products and provided manufacturing with documentation and required testing protocols.

EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

BSMET

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