Resume of Douglas Gurevitch, P.E.

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE:

2/2017 – Present – Research & Development Engineer 4/Dept. Safety Officer

Bioengineering Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Encompasses three areas of responsibilities: 1) Manage and support the instruction laboratory facilities for the Department of Bioengineering. 2) Support departmental facilities and equipment as main contact for emergency repairs, departmental lab and utilities renovation expert, and planning analyst. 3) Implement and manage safety operations for the department as the Department Safety Officer. Title change was caused by a University of California system-wide title normalization project. All duties are the same as previous job. Some new projects completed include the following:

•  Provisioned the lab to open for classes less than a month after the ribbon cutting. 

•  Worked with construction team throughout construction hunting down old plans, initiating and helping to address Requests for Information and Change Orders as problems or opportunities arose. To see the article on the lab opening click HERE.

•  Worked with the project team to design to create design documents as department contact. To see isometric renders of the new lab space click HERE.

• Worked with campus Capital Planning to choose basement renovation design team and general contractor.

• Created initial study and provisional layout for new basement instructional lab facilities.

• Provisioned and organized equipment and materials for the implementation of the new BENG 152 Biosystems laboratory class.

• Designed new user interface for main auditorium audio-visual system control.

• Completed major renovations for new faculty members as department renovation design liaison and project manager.

11/2002 – 1/2017 – Senior Development Engineer

Bioengineering Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Encompasses three areas of responsibilities:  1) Manage and support the instruction laboratory facilities for the Department of Bioengineering.  2) Support departmental facilities and equipment as the main contact for emergency repairs, departmental lab and utilities renovation expert, and planning analyst.  3) Implement and manage safety operations for the department as the Department Safety Officer. 

• Created and implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for departmental emergency response and building security system operation.  Also cross-trained personnel from other groups such as IT and Finance.

• Created and maintain the department continuity plan.

• Designed both minor and major lab renovations and was a pivotal liaison for the creation of the Cell Engineering Research Core, a CIRM funded stem cell facility.

• Designed fixtures and tooling using ProE and AutoCAD to support new experiments and to replace items that can no longer be purchased.

• Created CAD descriptions in ProE and AutoCAD for the existing custom technologies that did not have documentation.

• Created and instituted standard document control systems.

• Designed and maintain internal department web pages for Facilities and Safety information.

• Train students in safety requirements for Instructional Core laboratory use.

• Successfully moved and installed the Instructional Core laboratory to a new facility.

• Obtain advanced technology and capabilities for the instructional labs at lowest possible cost.

• CERT training for Campus Emergency Response Team.

1/2002 – 10/2002 – Consulting Laboratory Automation Engineer

Consulting and contract work for a number of companies. 

• Reviewed documentation system and content in order to help validate new procedures and assure compliance.

• Analyzed and reviewed integrated system designs for economic effectiveness.

• Set up a simple compound management system.

• Installed and validated new liquid handling and lyophilizing technologies.

• Designed a safety enclosure for a novel microarray printer.

4/2000 – 1/2002 - Director, Microarray Automation

Biocept, Inc., Carlsbad, CA

Managed and developed the automated production system for the company's hydro-gel based microarray technology while supervising all of the company’s engineering staff and activities.

• Developed validation tests and technology to determine manufacturing protocols.

• Led team to develop the automated production system for the company's hydro-gel based microarray technology. 

• Designed multiple engineering prototype level manufacturing systems (two generations) that allowed us to produce hundreds of arrays a week.  These systems required dozens of custom designed parts (Solidworks) and industrial hardware and automation (Adept and Mitsubishi robots).  Throughput increased 4x and 8x respectively over the initial process.

• Brought in novel off-the-shelf technologies (the first 2 arm Biomek FX shipped post β-testing).

• Created a document control system.

• Created planning processes (TurboProject) and standard QA/QC (Statistical Process Control) procedures for managing progress and quality.

• Directly managed the engineering group and led multi-disciplinary teams for product and process development.

• Presented and published about our technology at multiple venues.

• Initiated and brought in necessary safety processes and equipment.

(see Presentations & Publications below).

10/1999 - 3/2000 - Senior Staff Engineer

Nanogen, Inc.,  San Diego, CA

Specifying, integrating, and programming liquid transfer robots in support of an in-house drug-discovery program. 

• Led the effort to identify and pick liquid handling automation for the project.

• Created the custom programming that ran the liquid handling automation.

• Created the simple sample tracking database which allowed the first comprehensive analysis of partner performance on the project.

• Designed custom fixtures and tooling to integrate liquid handling with a plate stacking robot (Solidworks).

7/1995 ‑ 9/1999 - Senior Systems Engineer/Senior Staff Engineer

Axys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (fka Sequana Therapeutics, last known as Celera Therapeutics), La Jolla, CA

Responsibilities included designing electromechanical hardware, software (custom schedulers) and graphical user interfaces for integrating the automation and implementing protocols, along with  conducting research into new technologies that might be applicable to the needs of the business. 

• Automation team took throughput from 125,000 to 1,000,000 microsatellite marker genotypes per year.

• Led the group and teams that enabled additional throughput gains from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 microsatellite marker genotypes per year.

• Created the document control system.

• Created validation and QA/QC tests for the automation systems that allowed us to achieve industry leading utilization of our automation (14hr/day).

• Designed, specified, and integrated liquid handling automation for genetic/biochemical research in a mass production environment. 

• Designed custom electromechanical hardware, software (custom schedulers) and graphical user interfaces for integrating the automation and implementing protocols.  Many applications were novel and were presented at national and international forums for the industry.  

• Conducted research into basic technologies that might be applicable to the needs of the organization in the future, such as piezo-electric non-contact dispensing and microarray printing. 

• Managed a staff of three, composed of engineers and technicians.  

• Worked in widely diverse multi-disciplinary teams.

To see images of the robots and software click HERE.

3/1992 - 7/1995 - Product/Project Engineer

New Image Industries, Inc., San Juan Capistrano, CA

Duties included research, design and drafting in support of product development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, radiation safety and marketing/sales efforts for a dental endoscope manufacturer.  

• Implemented formal production target tracking and performance metrics.

• Created manufacturing documentation and assembly drawings for intra-oral camera manufacture.

• Performed critical quality control procedures on camera electronics.

• Trained our Japanese supplier on QC procedures in Japan.

• Designed changes needed to meet various regulatory requirements of different nationalities (different power ports, ventilation slot sizes, special transformers).

• Sourced regulatory testing services.

• Created documentation and managed the submissions for new designs and product to the regulatory and safety review agencies.  This included UL 544, CSA C22.2 No. 125, IEC 601-1 (pre CE mark) and FDA requirements.  I created the submission packet for all of the FDA released products.  

• Achieved a UL 544 mark in three weeks post a novel power switch design change.

• Created the Service Manual for each of our systems.

• Designed the X-Ray testing bench for our filmless dental X-Ray product.  This included sourcing the equipment.

• Served as the company Radiation Safety Officer (X-Ray systems). 

• Investigated new technologies for applicability for either manufacturing or licensing.

• Performed human factors design studies for the filmless dental X-Ray product including live testing of model sensors.  

To see images of New Image's product lines, the AcuCams, please click HERE.  

5/1989 – 12/1990 - Research Assistant

U.C. Santa Barbara, Dept. of Mechanical & Environmental Engineering

Research activities centered on implementation of an experimental three-fingered end-effector for manufacturing use. 

• Created wiring designs and diagrams.  

• Created the integrated robotic system to carry the hand and control multiple robots (1 Seiko Accusembler, 2 Panasonic Panarobos).

• Developed and created the novel optimal force control algorithms and software using simplex method optimization.

UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of  Mechanical & Environmental Engineering.

Dynamic Systems, Controls and Robotics

M.S. Mechanical Engineering

OPTIMAL FORCE CONTROL USING LINEARIZED FRICTION CONE CONSTRAINTS

To see the Thesis click HERE.

UC San Diego, Revelle College, Dept.of Applied Mechanics & Engineering Sciences

B.S. Engineering Science

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

ASME-The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

SLAS-The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, ALA division, Program Chair LabAutomation2006, Executive Editor JALA 2007 & 2008

LRIG-The Laboratory Robotics Interest Group – First Executive Chair of San Diego Chapter