About this Candidate
DAVRON CV: Candidate 3807346
SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER | SURGICAL ROBOTICS | NPI & MANUFACTURING TRANSFER
Core Expertise
- Leading technical execution for 40+ surgical-robotics programs driving commercialization and revenue generation.
- Managing cross-functional customer engagements to align requirements, priorities, and risk mitigation.
- Developing engineering talent via coaching, performance reviews, hiring, and workload planning.
- Navigating regulated medical-device development within ISO 13485, cGMP, and design-control frameworks.
- Commercializing advanced-material assemblies including braided fibers, nitinol, tungsten, and precision components.
Project Background
- Built braided fiber assembly capability from concept through qualified production, generating over $900K in sales.
- Advanced 50+ unique customer products from prototype through validation and production readiness.
- Led manufacturing transfer and new-product-introduction for multiple surgical-robotics subsystems into production.
- Supported $944K in development revenue year-to-date and generated 95 new development opportunities.
- Served as primary technical interface between customers and cross-functional teams to guide design decisions.
Key Skills
- AutoCAD | SolidWorks | Siemens NX
- Nitinol | UHMWPE | LCP | Stainless steel | Tungsten cable
- Braided fiber assemblies | Precision cable-driven mechanisms | Proximal instrument shafts
- Cable-driven wrist articulations | Distal end-effectors | Surgical-robotics subsystems
- Design controls | ISO 13485 | cGMP | NPI | Manufacturing transfer
- Team leadership | Project management | Cross-functional coordination | Mentorship
Education
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering — Indiana Tech
Why Interview this Candidate?
They bring hands-on leadership and technical depth in surgical-robotics product development, managing a large program portfolio and four direct reports. They combine regulated-product expertise (ISO 13485, cGMP, design controls) with proven commercialization outcomes and measurable development revenue. Their balanced technical-and-leadership approach enables rapid technical decisions while developing engineering talent and driving production launches.
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