Project Management Manager

ISAAC GESSER

Ventura, CA https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-e-d-gesser 562-***-**** **********@*****.***

Automation Engineer, Project Manager

Results-driven automation engineer and project manager with over 20 years’ expertise in design and managing full project lifecycle of automated systems from initial concept through final execution and continuous improvement.

Vision: Skilled at leading projects with cross-functional teams, implementing cutting-edge automation solutions, and driving process improvements with Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

Core Competencies:

Automation Engineering: Expertise in robotics (KUKA, FANUC, ABB), high-precision motion control (PI, A3 Association, Precision Econowind), PLCs (Rockwell/Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, ABB), microcontrollers (Arduino, Raspberry PI, ST Microelectronics), machine vision (Cognex, DVT, Keyence), Lasers (Resonetics, Coherent, Corning), ultrasonic welding (Emerson, Sonitek), automated assembly and palletizing systems.

Project Management: Large and small audience presentations. Cross-functional team leadership. Project proposals, planning, and execution. Creation of specifications. Proficient in developing and maintaining Gantt charts, Work (WBS), Cost (CBS), Requirements (RBS), and Production (PBS) Breakdown Structures, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and Resource Allocation Matrices (RAM). Skilled at proposing, planning, specifying, designing, prototyping, building, programming, testing, and qualifying automated systems based on Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLCs and ABB, KUKA, FANUC, Staubli, and custom robots.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CERTEKBIO – Developer of Probiotic Vaccines and Vaccine Functionality Simulation Software 02/2024 - Present

Co-Founder, Robotics and Automation Team Lead Ventura, CA

Enhanced communication of technical developments and project status through clear and simplified explanations tailored to executives, medical professionals, team members, and customers.

Proposed and initiated integration of lab robotics to automate vaccine production and testing processes. (Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLC, Arduino, Hamilton, FANUC)

DAC International – Contact and Interocular Lens Manufacturing Robot Manufacturer

Director, Product Development and Support Carpinteria, CA 06/2022 – 02/2024

Enhanced communication of key process indicators, technical developments and project status through clear and simplified explanations tailored to owners, executives, medical professionals, team members, and customers.

Led Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) and risk analysis activities involved with technical support team.

Led R&D and customer support teams specializing in the production of high-precision lathes used to manufacture contact and interocular lenses. Lathes used a Rockwell/Allen Bradley PLC to control positioning and a custom D/A – A/D interface to control a voice coil for high precision positioning of a diamond stylus.

SPDF Incorporated – Independent Contractor for Aerospace and Medical Device Industries 05/2013 – 06/2022

Owner Irvine, CA

Major clients included Northrop Grumman, Siemens, Rockwell, Mitsubishi, JPL, Benton Wilcoxon (https://www.bentonwilcoxon.com/), and Universities including University of Manitoba, UCLA, and CALTECH.

Programmed Siemens PLCs to control orientation of aircraft fuselage for assembly.

Designed, programmed, and integrated Rockwell, Siemens, and Mitsubishi PLCs with user-friendly human machine interfaces with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).

Designed, programmed, and integrated Arduino and Raspberry PI microcontrollers for a variety of applications.

Developed 3D models of mechanisms with SolidWorks.

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Edwards Lifesciences – Bovine Tissue Artificial Heart Valve Manufacturer 05/2011 –05/2013

Senior Automation Manager Binghampton, MA

Initiated, stocked, and managed Edwards’s APT (Advanced Process Technology) lab to help Edwards find ways to modify or automate processes to improve product quality and production line throughput.

This lab used a FANUC M16iB 6-axis robot, a FANUC M-10 series delta robot, and an Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC, with a variety of other off-the-shelf and custom robots, PLCs, servo motors, sensors, vision systems, liquid dispensers, ultrasonic welders, lasers (Excimer, UV, and IR), and custom grippers.

Given the Edwards E3 Award for Excellence for developing a fully automated system to process bovine tissues to make them universally biocompatible for any patient.

Essilor Group (GENTEX) – Eyeglass and Contact Lens Blank Manufacturer 01/2010 –03/2011

Senior Automation Manager Binghampton, MA

Manager Of Essilor’s Operations Automation and Line Maintenance Teams.

Led Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) and risk mitigation activities involved with the production floor.

Led international cross-functional teams through the development of a fully automated lens inspection line and automatic storage and retrieval system.

Medtronic Minimed – Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Monitor Manufacturer 06/2005 –01/2010

Principal Project Engineer Northridge, CA

Led a team of 4 engineers, one technical writer, and a machine builder through the specification, design, build, qualification, determination of ISO 13485 qualification procedures, CAPA, and risk analysis activities for a 128-process fully lights-out automated production.

Independently debugged and calibrated a 28-station manufacturing robot with feeder bowls, ultrasonic welders, adhesive dispensers, and vision systems to ensure it performed meeting all specifications and FDA 14-11 and ISO 13485 regulatory requirements.

Initiated, stocked, and managed Minimed’s APT (Advanced Process Technology) lab to help Minimed find ways to modify or automate processes to improve product quality and production line throughput.

oThis lab used a Mitsubishi SIA20D 7-axis robot, FANUC M16iB 6-axis robot, Staubli TX-60 5-axis robot, an Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLC, and a Delta Tau PMAC 2 embedded system with a variety of other off the shelf and built in house robots, PLCs, servo motors, sensors, vision systems, liquid dispensers, ultrasonic welders, lasers (Excimer, UV, and IR), and custom grippers.

Invented and developed mechanisms to automatically debond 2.5 cm long, 0.18 mm wide, 0.02 mm thick filaments from glass substrate and then insert them into a 0.2 mm diameter half-circle lumen of a 2.0 cm long double-lumen tube.

EDUCATION

University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 1996

BSc. ME. - Systems Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering

Activities and societies: IEEE, Association of Professional Engineers of Manitoba (EIT), CSME, SAE.

Graduation Thesis, Spinal Architecture for Machines That Walk.

Caltech Pasadena, CA 2008

Project Management

AWARDS

Wall Street Journal Gold for Innovation, Medtronic Certificate of Excellence, Edwards E3 Award for Excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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