Wheels Manufacturing
June 2014 - January 2016
Wheels Manufacturing is one of the world’s largest suppliers of high-quality bicycle derailleur hangers, bottom brackets, small parts, repair parts, and specialty tools. The company started in 1988 in Boulder, Colorado as a small machine shop producing cog removal tools and chain ring spacers, and quickly grew into a large-scale manufacturing facility producing a full line of small parts totaling over 1000 products.
At Wheels Manufacturing, my responsibilities included designing new products and refining/improving current products. I completed extensive tolerance analysis of these parts using state of the art quality-control tools. I also maximized efficiency, implemented standardized work, and eliminated non-value adding work. Finally, towards the end of my tenure with the company, I implemented new work-holding designs and refined current layouts for the CNC mills.
JustRight Surgical
May 2017 - September 2017
JustRight Surgical was founded in order to address a previously unmet need: the ability for pediatric surgeons to safely and effectively perform minimally invasive surgery in pediatric patients from neonate to teenager. Up until 2010, the only devices available for use in pediatric surgery were high-powered adult-sized instruments, which cause access issues and visualization problems during procedures. After years of research and collaboration with pediatric surgeons, JustRight Surgical’s team began manufacturing right-sized surgical instruments for use in general and pediatric surgery. By providing smaller instruments that improve access and visibility in confined surgical sites, JustRight Surgical is revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery in children.
At JustRight Surgical, my responsibilities included assisting in the design of next generation surgical devices, coordinating with vendors and suppliers to determine viable manufacturing methods for parts demanding a high level of precision, designing and operating test fixtures in order to validate current prototype designs, and ensuring that newly manufactured prarts met desired standards and trouble-shooting those that didn't.
