Mechanical Engineer Engineering

NICK ORTIZ

Mobile: 303-***-**** Email: ****.*.*****@*****.***

Address: **** * ***** ***. **********, CO 80020

Summary

Versatile and fast-learning mechanical engineer specializing in biomedical applications. Experience with product design, prototype testing, mechanical analysis and technical writing. Presently seeking an entry-level position in the medical device industry.

Experience

CAD Designer – Zimmer Biomet Spine (Contractor) – Broomfield, CO July 2016 – Present

●Updated engineering drawings of orthopedic implants and instrumentation to comply with FDA regulations.

●Gained strong experience in both modeling and printmaking with Solidworks, Creo, and NX CAD packages.

●Learned drafting standards and improved understanding of GD&T on production prints

●Worked with manufacturing and quality departments to build product inspection record documents.

●Redlined documents and fulfilled engineering change orders in response to vendor and internal requests.

●Expanded personal knowledge of the orthopedic industry design controls and manufacturing techniques

Development Engineer Intern – Medtronic Surgical Innovations – Boulder, CO May 2015 – May 2016

●Worked as part of a early concept development team to prototype new electrosurgical devices

●Identified design requirements, watched surgeries, modeled potential solutions, and built prototypes

●Evaluated the performance of surgical prototypes on tissue models, used results to iterate designs

●Gained hundreds of hours of experience creating new parts and preparing drawings for machining

●Communicated project results though IP disclosures and formal presentations

●Familiarity with quality systems in the medical device industry - training in design controls & cGMPs

Mechanical Engineering Intern – Micro Motion, Emerson Process Management – Boulder, CO May 2014 - Aug 2014

●Worked as part of sustaining engineering team to gain ASME code compliance for a series of products

●Developed scripts and excel macros to expedite stress calculations - documented results for external audit

●Evaluated tolerance stack-up problems in mechanical assemblies. Worked with simple & GD&T tolerances

Research Assistant – University of Vermont & University of Colorado Boulder Jun 2009 – Aug 2013

●Executed research protocols, performed literature searches, and managed study data

●Extensive experience with design of experiments and statistics using Excel, SPSS & Matlab

●Developed technical writing skills - published four peer-reviewed research articles, two as primary author.

Education

M.S. Mechanical Engineering - University of Colorado, Boulder - GPA: 3.6 2013-2016

Specialization: Product design. Completed core undergraduate coursework & passed FE Mechanical

B.A. Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology - University of Colorado – Boulder, CO - GPA 3.3 2005-2009

Skills

Key Expertise

Medical Device Design

Mechanical Analysis

Prototyping & User-centered Design

Technical Writing

Design for Manufacture

Statistics & Data Collection

Software

Solidworks, PTC Creo, NX

Solidworks Simulation, Abaqus

MATLAB, Python

SPSS, Minitab

LabVIEW Associate Developer

Electronics Prototyping w/ Arduino

Professional Development

Member of:

- CU Biomedical Engineering Society

-Colorado Bioscience Association Mentorship Program

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