Frank Modica Address: ***** Hobson St Kensington, MD 20895

Cell Phone Number: 202-***-****

Email Address: acxy6e@r.postjobfree.com

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Professional Profile

Experience Summary

Multi-disciplinary engineer with line and project management experience in New Product Development. Start- up veteran who has delivered products in the face of time-to-market pressure. Patent holder on two diagnostic medical instruments. Design award winner for a medical diagnostic instrument. MIT Graduate (BSME) and Life-Long-Learner. Conversational in Italian.

Skills Summary

Product R&D/Product

Development

Medical Diagnostics/Medical

Devices

Line Management

Project Management

Design Controls (FDA 21 CFR

820, ISO 9000, ISO 13485)

Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Opto-mechanical & Optical

Engineering

Systems Engineering

Engineering Tools

Solidworks (CAD)

Solidworks Simulation (FEA)

Workgroup PDM/PDMWorks

COMSOL (FEA)

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

(GD&T)

LabVIEW

Microsoft Office Applications

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Power Point

Professional Experience

Product Development

Canon US Life Sciences Genetic Analyzer

Systems Engineering, Image Analysis, Opto-mechanical design, Precision motion design.

PCR and High Resolution Melt (HRM) analysis in a microfluidic platform for genotyping.

MicroDose Dry Powder Inhaler

Mechanical design, plastic injection-molded parts.

Hand-held, electro-mechanical, drug delivery device.

Immunicon Celltracks Analyzer II (presently Veridex Celltracks Analyzer II)

Opto-mechanical design, precision motion design.

Medical Diagnostics Instrument. Cancer cell detection via fluorescence imaging.

Orchid BioSceinces SNPStream UHT (later Beckman Coulter SNPStream UHT)

Systems Engineering, Image Analysis, Opto-mechanical design, Precision motion design.

High Throughput Genotyping via fluorescence imaging.

Genetic Microsystems GMS 418 Array Reader (later Affymetrix 418 Array Reader)

Opto-mechanical design, precision motion design.

Genotyping via fluorescence imaging.

Engineering

Mechanical and Opto-Mechanical Design

Precision machine design, motion stages, optical assemblies, sheet metal design, plastic injection-molded part design, vacuum-formed partdesign, casting design.

Computer Simulation via CAD and FEA

Optical Design

Design of optics systems from commercially available components.

Computer Simulation via Ray Tracing Software

Systems Engineering

Systems-level design of instruments comprised of mechanical, optical, electrical, and software components.

Frank Modica Address: 10807 Hobson St Kensington, MD 20895 Cell Phone Number: 202-***-****

Email Address: acxy6e@r.postjobfree.com

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Management

Line management of engineers, scientists, and technicians with budgetary oversight.

Project management of external design/manufacturing resources with budgetary oversight. Emploment History

Director of Engineering-Founder Avanti Design & Development Washington, NJ 2007-Pres. Contract Systems Engineering for Medical Diagnostics/Medical Devices Manager, Systems Engineering Canon US Life Sciences Rockville, MD 2012-2015 Medical Diagnostic Instrumentation-Genotyping

Principal Design Engineer Unilife Medical Solutions York/Radnor, PA 2011-2012 Medical Device Manufacturer-Drug Delivery Systems

Research & Development Solid State Equipment Corp. Horsham PA 2010-2011 Semiconductor Capital Equipment Manufacturer

Mechanical Engineering Manager MicroDose Therapeutx Monmouth Jct. NJ 2009-2010 Medical Device Manufacturer-Dry Powder Inhalers

Engineering Manager Nutec Systems Lawrenceville NJ 2007-2009 Packaging/Printing Systems Manufacturer

Mechanical Engineering Manager Immunicon Corporation Huntingdon Val. PA 2003-2007 Medical Diagnostic Instrumentation-Cancer Detection R&D Engineer Orchid BioSciences Princeton NJ 2000-2003 Medical Diagnostic Instrumentation-Genotyping

Principal Mechanical Engineer Genetic Microsystems Woburn MA 1998-2000 Medical Diagnostic Instrumentation-Genotyping

Education

Bachelor of Science-Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electives Heat Transfer, Control Systems. Graduate Courses Gas Turbine Design, IC Engine Design Graduate Coursework-Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts -Lowell Graduate Courses in Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Patents

Diagnostic Imaging Device for the Analysis of Circulating Rare Cells World Intellectual Property Organization (International Patent), Pub No 2006/023563 A2 Image Cytometer

US Design Patent D601,051

Diagnostic Imaging Device for the Analysis of Circulating Rare Cells US Patent 7,777,885

Methods and Algorithms for Cell Enumeration in a Low-Cost Cytometer US Patent 7,764,821

Publications

Bell, Peter A Modica, Frank, SNPstream UHT: Ultra-High Throughput SNP Genotyping for Pharmacogenomics and Drug Discovery”, BioTechniques, Vol. 32, Pgs 70-77. June, 2002. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12083401

Rose, Stanley D., Modica, Frank “Novel Tools for Creating and Reading DNA Microarrays”, Lab Automation ’99, Conference Proceedings, Jan. 30-Feb. 3, 1999. http://labautomation.org/ConferencePDFs/LA99Book.pdf Professional & Social Associations

ASME-American Society of Mechanical Engineers Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering Einstein Alley Entreprenuers Collective

MIT Club of Washington DC

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