This resume is for Bill Pippey, an engineer with over 15 years of experience in research and development roles. He has worked on laser systems for medical device companies like Abbott Vascular and Iridex, developing processes to improve performance and reduce costs. Some of his accomplishments include increasing laser power and stability, improving beam quality, and developing injection seeding techniques. He is proficient in various engineering skills like electrical, optical, and mechanical systems as well as programming languages like LabView.

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(William) Bill J. Pippey III
2164 Tampa Way San Jose CA. 95122 Cell Phone #: (408) 893-8656
http://www.linkedIn.com/in/BillPippey E-mail: bill_pippey@mac.com
Summary:
Design and development engineer with over 15 years experience in R&D. I’ve worked as an engineer, customer
field service / phone support engineer, production technician and assembler over the years in scientific and medical
companies. Many years experience in each of the following fields: Electrical, optical, mechanical, thermal dynamics,
pneumatics, gas control, automation and safety interlocks (PLC). I have strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem
solving skills. I’m very good at training operators, assemblers and technicians.
I possess strong verbal and written communication skills. I’m 6-Sigma certified. I have developed processes for
medical equipment. I’m experience in validating and verifying performance. I have done UL/ CE / FDA compliance
testing and documenting.
I’m very experienced with Windows and Macintosh computers hardware,software and troubleshooting. Excellent
skills with software including Microsoft office, various data bases,VBA,G-Code, LabView, SAS and many others.
Accomplishments:
 Long history of successfuldevelopment, documentation, verification, validation and on time production release of
many commercially successfulmodels of laser systems with test fixtures.
 Helped hundreds of customers successfully fix their laser systems in the field and over the phone. (Spectra-Physics).
 Reduce manufacturing time, reduce laser system size over 50%, increase laser power over 100%, improve power
stability over 70%, 1000 times beam pointing improvement, and substantially improve beam spatial profile.
 Successfuldevelopment injection seeding of multiple laser systems. (Spectra-Physics & Continuum Lasers).
 Work with venders to improve yield and reliability for laser optical components: Pockels cells (Q-Sw),dichroic
mirrors, output couplers, polarizers, wave plates, fiber optics, laser diodes, crystals: Nd: YAG, Nd: YLF, Nd: YV04,
Er: YAG, Ti: Sapphire, KDP,KTP,LBO,BBO. (Quanta-Ray,Spectra-Physics & Continuum Lasers,Iridex).
 Created process improvements to stent cutting laser system to lower helium usage by 50% saving the company
$5000/month per laser system. Verified and validated improvement had no degradation of the product quality or
down stream processes. (Abbott Vascular).
 I modified the laser cardiac stent cutting system to cut endovascular stents. Reducing the manufacturing time of
endovascular stent cutting by 50%. Verified and validated increased cutting speed had no degradation of the product
quality or down stream processes. (Abbott Vascular).
 Personally maintained repaired and documented 6 stent cutter laser systems and held a 95% uptime record across two
shifts on all systems. (Abbott Vascular).
 I Wrote multiple 100 plus page filing and aging reports filed with the FDA / CE for equipment and process
qualifications passed by engineering, QA and upper management. (Abbott Vascular).
 I performed 3 stent cutter system equivalency tests. For each test I wrote a 50 plus page document pertaining to the
findings passed by QA and upper management for Abbott management, CE and the FDA. . (Abbott Vascular).
 Develop process controls to insure scaffold dimensions of +/- 0.003”. Train other technicians how to repair, maintain
laser systems and measure stent strut widths using Keyence digital microscope. (Abbott Vascular).
Work Experience:
Continuum Lasers Inc., Santa Jose,CA 2014
Applications Engineer (Product Demo) Research and Development
Responsibilities: Design equipment and processes,build working prototypes, and demonstrate applications of
laser usage. Address performance issues on behalf of the customer. Write reports and give power point
presentations to concerned parties.
Projects:
 Shock penning metal Project for a Korea company. Develop processes including design of experiment,
writing G-Code for control of 2-axis X-Y stepper controlled stage.
 Create a plan, design and build test equipment. Use it to determine if material choices in laser cause
Fluorenert FC-43 to degrade. Write report.
Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA 2008-2014
Tech IV in research and development

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Responsibilities: Work with engineers, QA,Venders, operators and technicians. Help design, maintain,
repair, modify and document $1.5 Million dollar fully automated laser based stent cutter systems with 60
channels of ethernet computer controlled automation. Responsible for femtosecond and picosecond lasers
systems performance and repairs and maintain beam delivery optics, computer control automation systems,
Aerotech 2 axis motion control, gas delivery and cooling systems used in stent cutter systems. Created excel
based database to log the system components, maintenance, repairs, and performance. Order and track spare
parts too. Help create and document processes used to cut cardiac stents.
 On the laser stent cutter system development team that patent and perfected the stent cutter system.
 Worked on two basic types of stent cutting systems.
Sub 100 femtosecond Coherent Libra laser based stent cutter system.
6-picosecond 33Khz Trumpf 5250c laser based stent cutter system.
Iridex Corp., Mountain View, CA 1999-2007
Laser Engineer research and development
Responsibilities: Opticalmechanical engineer of an engineering team that designed, developed, tested,
validated, verified laser system performance and reliability. Design build and document workstation test
fixtures. Design and write assembly and test procedures, production performance reports for laser systems.
Create production release package for laser systems. Transferred laser systems and workstations to
manufacturing through ECO process control. Train production technicians how to assemble and test and
troubleshoot laser systems.
 Ophthalmology market and Ascetics market. Small, air cooled, menu driven processor controlled laser
systems. Paused 1-4 Hz. Range of power from 3-1000 Watts fiber optically delivered. Range of wavelengths
1064nm, 940nm, 810nm, 808nm, 532nm or 577nm.
Projects:
 Tx OcuLight: Ophthalmology laser system.
 VariLite & Apex 800:Dermatology laser system.
 Orion, LightBook & Pegasus: Scientific laser systems.
 Designed LabViewdata acquisition system. Used to test and improve products.
Continuum Lasers Inc., Santa Clara, CA 1991-1998
Laser Engineer II research and development
Responsibilities: Design, develop and characterize new or improved laser systems. Write assembly and test
procedures for laser systems. Work with manufacturing to assure smooth production release of products. Used
LabView to improve products.
Projects:
 PowerLite Laser Series:Model numbers 7000, 8000 & 9000. Project successes included:
 1000X improvement in beam pointing stability.
 4X less warm up time to achieve stabile laser operation.
 2X Improvement in long-term power stability of laser systems.
 Reduction in manufacturing and repair times.
 Developed Injection Seeding of M/N:Surelite (I, II, III), PowerLite 8000 & 9000 lasers.
 Designed M/N’s: Surelite I, II, III smallinexpensive line of high powered 10-30Hz Q switched Nd: Yag
laser systems with 2nd
, 3rd
& 4th
harmonic generation.
 Development of thermally controlled Q switch. Improved extinction ratio and energy stability.
 Development of indexing of optical components. Result manufacturing time reduction.
 Develop10Hz. Ti Sapphire Regenerative Amplifier and Dye Laser System. Sub100 femtosecond laser
system IR to UV tunable.
 Develop 1080Hz. Nd: Yag Regenerative Amplifier System & Dye Amplifier System sub 100-
femtosecond laser system IR to UV tunable.
 Develop Erbium YAG Laser System for a dental application. M/N: DentLight.
 Develop Diode Pumped Yag Laser System. M/N:EPO. Very small TEM 00 laser.
Equipment familiar with:
VOM’s, Oscilloscopes, current probes, thermal couple, pressure transducers, chart recorders, delay generators,
spectrum analyzers, linewidth analyzers, frame grabbers, (laser beam profilers), M2
Measurement tools, optical power
meters, FLIR cameras, auto-correlators, microscopes, Hand tools, machine shop tools, and many more tools.