Orinski CV

William Orinski
10780 Serratina Drive
Reno, NV 89521
wofd987a@westpost.net
(775) 453-1999
(661) 816-0122
EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE

2009 - Present APAT Consulting, Inc., Reno, NV President - Consultant

Started consulting company, APAT Consulting, Inc., working with both established
high-tech and small start-up companies, including Boston Scientific, Advanced B
ionics, Implanted Acoustics, SetPoint Medical, BioVigilant, Silere Medical, and
Clark-NXR. Technical consulting varied from high-tech micro-electronics packagi
ng for medical implants with a focus on DFM (Design for Manufacturability), to t
ooling and process/assembly equipment design for new and existing products. All
product and tooling/equipment design were modeled in SolidWorks 3D software.

2004 -2009 Advanced Bionics Corp., Santa Clarita, CA

2004 - 2008 Director, Auditory R&D Hardware Development; Director, Advanced Pr
ocess Technology; Director, Technology Resource Center (TRC)
As Director of the R&D Hardware Development Group, responsible for the following
:
* Annual departmental budgets, departmental priorities and technical management
of eleven (11) direct reports for both mechanical and electrical design engineer
ing.
* Conducting feasibility and proof of concept studies for the development of all
new auditory external products related to Advanced Bionics' cochlear implant de
vices.
* Generating and presenting product proposals for senior management approval of
new product development projects, including preliminary product functional speci
fications, technical risk analyses, estimated development schedules, resources a
llocations, and estimated development costs.
As the Director of the Advanced Process Technology group, responsible for the fo
llowing:
* Working with R&D engineering staff, (Auditory and Neurostimulation) to design
products for high-volume manufacturing.
* Developing manufacturing processes, designing, developing and validating the a
ssociated manufacturing equipment and transitioning the equipment to manufacturi
ng engineering for implementation into the manufacturing area.
* Researching and developing new manufacturing processes utilizing state-of-the-
art semiconductor and MEMS processing technologies.
As the Director of the Technology Resource Center, responsible for the following
:
* Development of all auditory implantable devices, including electrodes.
* All mechanical packaging and process development for future implantable device
s, cochlear electrodes and surgical tools.
* TRC group designed, manufactured and deployed a state-of-the-art automated Liq
uid Silicone Injection Molding system for the over-molding of cochlear and spina
l cord stimulator implantable devices, enabling complete control and monitoring
of all molding process parameters automatically.
2008 -2009 Senior Research Fellow
Senior Research Fellow for the Advanced Process Technology group, with the follo
wing responsibilities:
* Technical mechanical lead engineer for the redesign and repackaging of the coc
hlear implant
* New manufacturing technology development for cochlear electrode arrays
* Working with outside suppliers for tooling and process development in areas su
ch as metal stampings, machined parts, ceramics, wire coatings, polymer film dev
elopment, laser machining, laser welding, precious metal processing, thermal pla
stic injection mold design and build, LIM (Liquid Injection Molding) design and
build.
* Associated tooling and equipment development for proof of concept and implemen
tation of new manufacturing technologies into future products.

2001- 2004 Automation Concepts, Tucson AZ, President & Chief Technical Officer
After DT-Vanguard was acquired by EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering, Inc., I star
ted another product development and automation consulting firm whose primary foc
us was to work with start-ups to assist with the following:
* Mechanical packaging of the product/s
* Design their products for high volume manufacturing
* Develop manufacturing and assembly processes
* Concept, design and develop custom processing and automation equipment for ma
nufacturing

1999 -2001 DT-Vanguard, Tucson AZ - Ontario, CA, Division President & Chief Tec
hnical Officer
Sold Vanguard Technical Solutions to DT Industries, a $540 million dollar system
s integrator with 17 locations throughout the world. Retained by DT to build an
organization focused on the "high-tech" automation industry. After one year of
operation, the organization had over $9 million dollars in backlog, 20,000-sq.
ft. of facility (including a 1,000-sq. ft. Class 10 clean-room environment) and
42 employees. Customer base consisted of Disk Drive, Fiber Optic, Medical, Bio-M
edical, Semiconductor and high technology Toy companies. Primary focus was "Ult
ra-High Precision" assembly and developing a standard platform, high-precision a
ssembly product, the VECTORplace-2000, capable of +/- 1-micron passive placement
assembly accuracies.
1997 - 1999 Vanguard Technical Solutions, Tucson, AZ, Founder, President & C
hief Technical Officer
A process development and automation consulting firm specializing in advanced hi
gh technology assembly solutions.
Services provided:
* Survey and evaluate potential automation needs.
* Develop a process flow, mechanical concepts, and the equipment specification f
or the proposed automation solution/s.
* Survey and evaluate system integrators to execute the proposed automation.
* Mechanical product packaging.
* Specify and work with component providers for mechanical packaging components
(plastic injection molding, machining, metal stampings)
* Product design.
* Serve as a technical project manager.
1984 - 1997 Vanguard Automation, Inc., Tucson, AZ, Founder, President & Chief Te
chnical Officer
Vanguard Automation was a systems integrator of custom designed manufacturing au
tomation equipment and software for intricate electro-mechanical assemblies serv
ing the Computer Hard Disk Drive, Auto Airbag, Semiconductor, Communication, Med
ical, and Electronics markets. As Chief Technical Officer, I was responsible for
all technical application concepts and technical sales, technology development
and product implementation. In 1997, Vanguard Automation was acquired by RVSI (R
obotic Vision Systems, Inc.), Long Island, New York.
Key accomplishments:
* Patent Holder: Designs related to disk drive head assembly automation and Sem
iconductor BGA ball placement techniques.
* Technical responsibility for over 250 automation systems installed worldwide.
* Responsible for the manufacturing process flow, concept development, and imple
mentation of the first completely automated assembly system for MR Head Gimble A
ssemblies (the read/rite heads in a hard disk drive). These systems were in exc
ess of one million dollars each and have been replicated over thirty (30) times.
* Created automated solutions for markets requiring state-of-the-art precision v
ision guided robotics, clean room (Class 10) environments, and high precision pi
ck and place systems.

HONORS
1992 Entrepreneur of the Year, Institute of American Entrepreneurs, Southwest Re
gion (Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico)
1992 Small Business Person of the Year, Arizona
1994-1995 Board of Advisors, GeneXP, Boston, MA
1994-1995 Special Technical Advisor, Seed Partner, LLC (Growth Point Fund), Bost
on, MA