14 School St.

Westborough, MA 01581

(508) 870 - 7273

Matthew P. Johnson

mpjohnso @ alumni.caltech.edu

Objective: A challenging mechanical engineering design position, allowing scope for professional development, in the Boston or MetroWest area.

Education:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) GPA 4.0

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, August 2000

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) GPA 3.7

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Graduated with Honors, June 1994

Experience:

Senior Mechanical Engineer ― Beckman Coulter Inc. (BCI) 2000 . Present

* Devised the two mechanical systems that allow the primary improvement on BCI's flagship instrument from the previous automated blood-chemistry analyzer.

* Responsible for three assemblies from concept development to commercial release.

* Prototyped, tested, analyzed, and refined these mechanisms for commercialization.

* Designed a robotic reagent cartridge handling mechanism.

* Responsible for the integration of these systems with electrical, mechanical, thermal and software systems.

* Designed assemblies using Unigraphics.

* Resolved and mitigated regulatory design issues.

* Interfaced with vendors, suppliers, mold makers, machinists, manufacturing, assembly, testing, inspection, quality assurance, training, field service, and customers.

* Participated in the first ahead-of-schedule release by Clinical Chemistry in over a decade.

Teaching Assistant ― UIUC: Computer Aided Design 1999 - 2000

* Taught the use of Pro/ENGINEER to ~75 students.

Research Assistant ― UIUC 1997 - 1999

* Designed a parallel-link milling machine using Pro/ENGINEER.

* Developed the project from configuration to drawing package.

* Optimized design for stiffness matrix eigenvalues and workspace volume.

Teaching Assistant ― UIUC: Mechatronics 1995, 1996

* Taught an introductory lab on electronic components, signals analysis, and control theory.

* Received teaching awards each year.

Assistant Engineer ― Palomar Observatory 1994 - 1995

* Modified an existing echelle spectrograph extensively using AutoCAD, to let modular prism units be safely and quickly swapped by the astronomer during observations.

* Completed project from optical path concept through testing.

Teaching Assistant ― Caltech: Engineering Design Lab 1993

* Designed and constructed a collapsible electric cart for elderly people.

* Advised student teams, critiqued proposed designs.

* Designed and machined demonstration and testing apparatus.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow ― Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1993

* Independently designed and constructed a low-power robotic arm.

* Presented at the Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research.

Other:

Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (EIT) 2004

Science Olympiad Coach (volunteer) ― Valencia High School 2002 . Present

Advised three or more teams each year on design of robotic vehicles, electronics, chemistry,

trusses, ballistics, drive trains, dynamics, fluid flow, pneumatics, engineering principals, etc.

Foreman ― Student Shop, Caltech 1992 - 1994 1992

Engineering Design Contest, Honorable Mention ― Caltech 1992

CAD: Unigraphics, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, AutoCAD(R12), Computervision