Brandon Walsh is a mechanical engineer with over 10 years experience in mechanical product development and analysis - with a focus on medical device development. He is currently a full-time consultant with AorTx, Inc. (formerly CardiacMD, Inc.)

Collaborating with AorTx founder and a fellow colleague, Brandon helped develop a revolutionary percutaneous heart valve therapy. After nearly a year of part-time development, the device received seed funding and is now a portfolio company of Biostar, a private equity fund. He engaged on a full-time basis to further the success of the device. AorTx is located in the Bay Area of California.

Product development skills, solid modeling (Pro/E, Solidworks), prototyping, and extensive experience performing structural non-linear finite element analysis (FEA) (Abaqus, Ansys, I-DEAS, Algor) have been an invaluable asset for projects he engages in.

Prior to involvement with AorTx, Brandon worked for GE Healthcare (March 2003 - March 2005), in the newly formed Mechanical Simulation Team. There, he performed structural finite element analysis (vibration, forming, static) and computational fluid dynamic analyses as well as product development. He was a key person in the development of critical components for a major product platform. Additional responsibility of this new team was to conceptualize and develop product direction, and perform physical testing for concept validation.

From February 2000 to March 2003, Brandon was a Senior Mechanical Engineer with Pacific Consultants, a Silicon Valley product development and analysis firm. He was a key contributor on many programs involved the development and analysis of medical devices, ranging from stents to handheld electronic instruments. He also performed structural analyses (particularly nitinol and stainless steel) - critical to FDA approval for start-up companies and large corporations. FEA was also performed to assist legal cases in patent litigation suits. As the mechanical engineer for a client product, the Natus Algo 3i Newborn Hearing Screener, his work was recipient of the Medical Design Excellence Award and also received the Bronze Award in Business Week Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America's IDEA 2004 (Industrial Design Excellence Awards). Brandon was involved with dozens of client projects related to medical devices.

From 1996 to 2000 Brandon worked in Salt Lake City for L-3 Communications and a locally based engineering consulting firm. Projects ranged from electronics packaging, to sporting equipment, to design of heavy transport equipment and machinery.

He is the primary inventor and contributor on a number of issued and pending patents. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utah.

Brandon continues his interest in all things mechanical and is always brainstorming an interesting project.