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
Sr Engineering Manager - Manufacturing Science & Technology
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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