Mike Murillo

Brought 2 core Carbon products to market. For each product, I played a core part in building the business plan and justification, setting the customer and company requirements, laying out the product specifications and risk management strategy, architecting the hardware, and leading the hardware development and teams. I have led teams as large as 40+ engineers and have also managed key vendors for products that were co-developed. I have played the roles of Product and Program Manager, Hardware Lead, People Manager, and independent Engineer. I have consulted and contributed to the industrial design, software UI, and product UX. I have worn whatever hat needs to be worn to ensure the product meets the customer and business needs, on time.

I have managed Mechanical Engineers helping to grow their capabilities and influence, establishing core design standards and best practices.

I have also managed Carbon’s CNC and prototyping facility.

Finally, I helped to develop Carbon’s Product Development Strategy and processes that range from ECO and change control, phase gating process, scheduling strategy, and NPI.

Principal Design Engineer

Sr. Design Engineer

First engineer hired and worked on every released iteration of the NovoStitch and Novocut devices. Chief architect of all iterations of the NovoStitch and most iterations of the NovoCut products. Managed 1-4 engineers in bringing new products from concept to market. Responsible for incubating and developing new products.

On the documentation side, I developed and wrote design verification protocols, product specification, design FMEAs for most of the Ceterix products and I worked on the 510k release of the cartridge based NovoStitch products.

On the manufacturing side, I designed and developed packaging including thermoform strays, styrene cards, product cartons, and product graphics and labeling.

I have designed hundreds of components and dozens of prototype designs.

Sr. Design Engineer

I worked with ID and UX on a series of projects with the primary goal of anticipating and solving technical hurdles. Primary project was a sleep product for Resmed where I worked closely with Resmed engineers and Smart Design designers to develop a novel sleep device. 

Along the way I picked up experience in model making and 3D surfacing modeling techniques as well as top down, ID driven design.

Sr. Design Engineer

Design Engineer

Worked on 4 product launches including a cartridge-based version of their anastomotic stapler. Designed and developed core mechanisms for the C-Port and Microcutter product lines.

I also designed Cardica's brochures, product photography and rendering, and helped coordinate the development of their branding. 

Program Associate

Organized and ran Quest’s premiere summer college primer program, QuestLeadership. Designed and built their website, developed their recruitment application system, and organized several recruitment efforts.