Looma
Since February of 2021 I have worked as a mechanical engineer at Looma, a small mechanical design consultancy which specializes in solving hard mechanical problems in the life sciences industry.
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Skills Exhibited:
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3D CAD (SOLIDWORKS).
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New product introduction.
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Project management.
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Client and supplier management.
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Experiment Design.
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Creative Problem Solving.
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Design for manufacturing (CNC Milling, Injection Molding, Sheet Metal).
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Rapid prototyping (3D Printing, CNC Milling, Silicone and Polyurethane Casting, and Laser Cutting).
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Images:
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Me sitting at our first CNC mill, a Tormach PCNC1100. We bought this machine used and I fixed it up and got it running. I've taught myself a good deal of machining along the way, and still have lots more to learn. You can also see the compressed air system I design and built for our shop running along the top of the image in the blue piping. Our shop is now much less empty and our current CNC mill ( a Brother Speedio) is a lot bigger and a lot more powerful, it has been extremely fun to play with.
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A rendering of the Smart Cuffs 4 from Smart Tools. I was involved with this project early on as we rebuilt the previous generation from the ground up to improve speed, accuracy, and usability in the system. You can now buy these online!
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The Vistapath Sentinel system. This imaging platform is used in pathology labs to improve accuracy and speed through the use of computer vision. I helped push this product from a functional beta prototype through to the first production run. Along the way we worked closely with mold houses, contract manufactures, and our clients to deliver this project.