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patrick buckley

Headline: Entrepreneur
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Cambridge College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Position: Research Assistant
Time period: January 2001 - Present
Description: (supervisor: Marty Culpepper); Designed and built a dynamic flexure which took macro sized inputs and converted them to sub millimeter sized outputs. This flexure was used for the purpose of capacitance probe alignment and calibration during the testing of precision kinematic couplings. Solid Works and Finite Element Analysis were used in the design process to meet the mechanical requirements of the flexure.

Employer: WebMynd Corp.
Position: CEO and Co Founder
Description: WebMynd is an innovative browser technology that personalizes web search results by analyzing an individuals web history. More information can be found at www.webmynd.com.

Employer: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Position: Researcher
Time period: January 2005 - December 2007
Description: Medical Division (supervisor: Duncan Maitland) and Micro Technology Division (supervisor: Kevin Ness) Continued work on developing and researching shape memory polymer medical devices, which included stents, neurovascular embolic devices, and laser diffusing fibers. Lead engineer on a micro fluidics project with the goal of building an electrophoretic thermal gradient focusing machine. This equipment will concentrate, purify, sort, and separate samples based on there electrophoretic velocities. The main focus of the project being to perform automated sample preparation on proteins, viruses and cells for bio-detection purposes.

Employer: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Position: Visiting Scholar
Time period: January 2002 - December 2004
Description: Medical Division (supervisor: Duncan Maitland); Developed and researched a novel approach for the remote heating of shape memory polymer using dispersed thermo-regulated magnetic particles and magnetic fields. Responsibilities included working with a small team of researchers to organize and conduct mechanical, calorimetric, and magnetic testing of this novel material, and, as lead inventor, filing record of invention papers with the intellectual property office.
Micro-Technology Division (supervisor: Robin Miles); Conducted preliminary research on the use of dielectrophoresis to capture single cells on the end of micro-testing probes. Built a prototype micro-fluidic device with dielectropheretic testing probe and conducted testing using this device to determine frequencies and voltages needed to attract cells onto test probe.
National Ignition Facility (supervisor: Pat Hurst); Worked in Optical Assembly Building (OAB) testing vibration characteristics of optic transport equipment and developing preliminary design for optic transport fixture. Worked with one other person to develop test protocol and conduct vibration tests using data acquisition equipment and accelerometers. During the course of testing a severe problem with electrical interference in the OAB clean room and a hazard to the optical transport equipment caused by this equipment rolling over faulty floor fixtures was identified. Identifying these problems prevented the damage of fragile and expensive optics as well as the optic transport equipment.

EDUCATION

University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period: 2004
Degree: Mechanical Engineering , MSc

University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period: 2003
Degree: Mechanical Engineering, BSc

University: Cambridge College

University: University of Cambridge

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: W.Small, T.S. Wilson, P.R. Buckley, W.J. Benett, J.M. Loge, J.Hartman, and D.J> Maitland, “Prototype Feabrication and In Vitro Testing of a Shape Memory Endovascular Thrombectomy Device,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Submitted 2006
W. Small, P.R. Buckley, T.S> Wilson, W.J. Benett, J.Hartman, D. Saloner, and D.J.Maitland, “Shape Memory Polymer Stent with Expandable Foam: A New Concept for Endovascular Embolization of Fusiform Aneurysms.” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Submitted 2006
J. Hartman, W. Small, T.S. Wilson, J. Brock, P.R. Buckley, W.J. Benett, J.M. Loge, and D.J. Maitland, “Embolectomy in a Rabbit Model of Acute Ischemic Stroke Using and Electromechanical Extraction Device.” American Journal of Neuroradiology, Submitted 2006
P.R. Buckley, G.H. McKinley, T.S. Wilson, W. Small, W.J. Benett, J.P. Bearinger, M.W. McElfresh, and D.J. Maitland, “Inductively Heated Shape Memory Polymer for the Magnetic Actuation of Medical Devices.” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Accepted 2006
Patents: Patents Pending
P. R. Buckley, “Mobile Device and Method for Increasing Saving Rates by Executing Impulsive Saving Transacttions with a Positive Reinforcement Mechanism”, 2007, application US60/956,712

P. R. Buckley and D. J. Maitland, "Shape Memory System with Integrated Actuation using Embedded Particles," The Regents of the University of California, 2005, application 10/810,422.

INFORMATION

Awards: Sheridan Award, MIT
Member of 12 person team who won $1000 award for group project designing a pool table and cue for mentally disabled children. Awarded for creativity in the improvement of human-machine integration.
Wunsch Foundation Silent Hoist and Crane Award, MIT
Awarded to fewer than four Mechanical Engineering students a year for outstanding performance on or project related to design and materials. As award recipient was selected as the first alternate for the International Design Competition in Japan.
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