Erica Levorson Wright

Medical Device Strategic & Technical Project Management | Senior Engineering Manager | Product Lifecycle Management | Single-Use Sterile Device Manufacturing | Ph.D. Bioengineering

Role
Sr Engineering Manager - Manufacturing Science & Technology at Alcon
Location
Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Erica Levorson Wright

Medical Device Engineer with Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and 10+ years driving strategic and technical project management across the full medical device product lifecycle — from R&D and new product development through manufacturing scale-up, tech transfer, and sustaining engineering.At Alcon, I built and led a site-to-site tech transfer team managing an international project portfolio — including a $16M product-line transfer completed one year ahead of schedule and a supply chain qualification that delivered $1.6M in cost avoidance. My background spans strategic portfolio management, product lifecycle management, root cause investigation, CAPA, manufacturing validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), and sustaining engineering — with a continuous improvement mindset anchored in Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt).Core competencies: Strategic Project Portfolio Management · Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) · Tech Transfer · Sterile Device Manufacturing · Root Cause Analysis & CAPA · Design Controls · FDA 21 CFR Part 820 · ISO 13485 · Process Validation · Cross-Functional Team Leadership · Remote CollaborationPassionate about connecting deep technical expertise with strategic project leadership to deliver complex, cross-functional initiatives in the medical device space. Open to collaborating with innovative teams tackling challenging product lifecycle and technology transfer programs.

Experience

  1. Sr Engineering Manager - Manufacturing Science & Technology

    Alcon

    Feb 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US

    Site to Site transfer project portfolio management.Product lifecycle management.

Education

  • Rice University

    Doctor of Philosophy, Bioengineering

    2008 — 2013

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Bachelor of Science, Biological Systems Engineering

    2004 — 2008

Skills

  • R&D
  • Tissue Culture
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Biomaterials
  • Research
  • Cell
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Nanotechnology
  • Biotechnology
  • Stem Cells
  • Research and Development (R&D)
  • Microscopy
  • Cell Culture
  • Cell Based Assays
  • Statistics
  • Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Matlab
  • Medical Devices
  • Design of Experiments
  • Experimental Design
  • Characterization
  • Validation
  • Biochemistry
  • Data Analysis

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