Ted Richardson

About Ted Richardson

Proven track record of product development of products for start-up and established companies in Consumer electronics components, Commercial electronics devices, and FDA class II and MDD class IIb, reusable and disposable devices and capital equipment-Commercial and consumer electronics industries-Responsible for design of lenses for CRT and LCD projectors used in consumer and commercial projection television lenses and housings for international markets -Designed prototype handheld and shoulder strap printers of tags and labels -Developed computer model, in C, of a label printer including stepper and DC motors analyzing the dynamics and harmonics of the paper and ribbon motion systems -Medical device industry-Six products families completed from concept to first clinical use and market release 12 months or less -Led cross-functional teams including R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Marketing to release of numerous products-Tissue ablation systems typically used for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia -Radio frequency ablation clamps and energy source -Malleable cryo-ablation probes and console -Novel vessel sealing / cutting system including hand piece and dedicated energy source -Improved design of smoke evacuating electrosurgical pencil resulting in sale of 78k units in 2010 -Assisted in development of a RF ablation pen used for unidirectional ablation and mapping of arrhythmogenic cardiac autonomic system -Designed and developed bipolar cauterizing surgical scissors, invented disposable cartridges reusable version -Developed surgical devices for CardioThoracic Systems (Guidant / Boston Scientific), flexible shaft bipolar cauterizing scissors; Valleylab (Covidien), compact vessel sealing instrument; Medtronic, cardiac anastomosis blower/mister; Ethicon, Inc, reusable / disposable bipolar cauterizing scissors- Ten issued patents in the medical device field

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Enable Injections, Inc.

   Jan 2020 — Present · Sharonville, OH, US

Education

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

  1979 — 1984

Skills

• Medical Devices
• Capa
• Engineering Management
• Process Development
• Iso 13485
• Risk Management
• Research
• Fda
• Quality System
• Quality Systems
• R&D
• Cad
• Budgets
• Cardiac
• Design Control
• Program Management
• Fmea
• Testing
• Validation
• Budgeting
• Microsoft Office
• Engineering
• Minitab
• Medical Device Product Development
• Pro/Engineer
• Problem Solving
• Capital Equipment
• Root Cause Analysis
• Product Design
• Six Sigma
• Product Launch
• Dmaic
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Statistics
• Doe
• Injection Molding
• Disposables
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• 510 K