Mechanical Quality Control

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DENNIS A. BABCOCK

Covidien, Plymouth, MN Mar2012-Present

Position: Contract Mechanical Designer

Donaldson Company, Bloomington, MN Oct 2011-Mar 2012

Position: Contract Mechanical Designer

EnteroMedics Inc, St Paul, MN Jan 2011-Oct 2011

Position: Contract Mechanical Designer

MGS Machine, Maple Grove, MN Feb 2010-Jan 2011

Position: Contract Mechanical Designer

Disc Dynamics, Eden Prairie, MN Jun 2009-Jan 2010

Position: Consultant, Principle Mechanical Designer

Employment

Disc Dynamics, Eden Prairie, MN May 2004-Jun 2009

Position: Principle Mechanical Designer

Remmele Engineering, St Paul, MN Jan 2004-May 2004

Position: Contract Senior Mechanical Designer

Perbix Machine, Golden Valley, MN 2003-2004

Position: Contract Senior Mechanical Designer

Dynetic Systems, Elk River, MN 2002-2003

Position: Senior Mechanical Designer

ComTal Machine and Eng, St Paul, MN 2000-2001

Position: Senior Mechanical Designer

Boston Scientific, Maple Grove, MN 1992-2000

Position: Senior Mechanical Designer

The majority of my experience has been in medical device design for clean room

manufacturing. I have worked both machine design and product design. This has

helped me excel in both fields, knowing how to design parts for manufacture,

knowing how to work with product design to give them the best machine/fixture to

bring their design to fruition.

Following is a brief list of equipment I have designed and worked on.

Packaging equipment for the pharmaceutical industry, including working with

outside vendors to spec robotic equipment, conveyors, air cylinders, stepper

and servo motors.

Team involvement to develop a Disc Arthroplasty System to replace abnormal

lower back disc nucleus with a 2-part curable polymer balloon catheter.

(http://www.sciatica.com/clinical-trials/20-dascor-disc-nucleus-replacement-study.html)

End effectors for robotic application, also assuring the robot and end effectors

paths are obstructive free.

Semi-automated assembly line for a lithium battery power source in medical

Experience

devices, utilizing a chain link carousel, pick and place robots, presses and a

small web handling line.

Automated web handling machine that fabricated and packaged 600

transdermal patches per minute. The process included slitting, complex web

guiding, die cutting, accurate placement of discrete parts between moving

webs, heat-sealing, and thickness inspection. This included project managing

the project, 2 other designers and a detailer.

R&D automated laser powered stent cutting machine. (multi axies of operation

for any future needs that might arise)

Designed small fixturing and tooling for balloon catheters, guide wires, stents

and water purification.

Custom servomotors to customers’ specifications.

CAD documentation and working in a parallel effort with quality control to set

up a documentation system for FDA traceability of document changes using

SolidWorks, and PDMworks software packages.

Implementing SolidWorks, including border and keyboard standardization.

Software packages: SolidWorks, CadKey, PDMworks, DBworks, Grand Avenue,

Agile, Adobe,

Microsoft Products: Word, Excel, Paint, Access

Education

Staples Vocational College, Staples, MN - Tool and Die Design

Green Belt Six Sigma Training

Recommendations available on request.

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