My Portfolio

Project Management

R&D, Engineering, Pharma, Medical Devices
Project 01

Project and Team Management

Certified Project Manager with experience in managing broadly diverse projects involving both medical devices and pharmaceutical products. Multiple products were successfully brought from the R&D phase all the way to the market.

  • Company: Piramal Critical Care, Becton Dickinson (current)
  • Role: R&D Project Manager, Principal R&D Engineer
  • Year: 2012-Present

Engineering / Engineering Lead

Anesthesia Vaporizers, Container Closure Systems, Aerospace
Project 02

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer

Accomplished and enthusiastic engineer with significant industrial and academic experience in fluid and thermal sciences, heat transfer, thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, multi-phase flows, cosmology, and numerical methods. Proactive team player and competent team leader with an exceptional work ethic. Confident and articulate technical and interpersonal communications skills, and quick learner. Possess entrepreneurial spirit and well developed skills in prioritizing, organization, decision making, and time management.

  • Companies / Clients: Gulfstream, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Notre Dame, Piramal Critical Care, Becton Dickinson
  • Roles: Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineer, Principal R&D Engineer
  • Year: 2005-Present

Research: Nanofluids

Journal Papers on their Thermodynamics and Transport Properties
PNanofluids Research

Research in Nanofluids

Modeled the physics of nanofluids using equilibrium molecular dynamics and computational fluid dynamics. Pioneered complex numerical algorithms to extract thermodynamic, rheological, and transport properties of fluids from raw equilibrium molecular dynamics data. Presented the work on nanofluids at over 15 international conferences, and received various awards for its novelty and multi-billion-dollars market potential.

  • Institutions: University of Notre Dame, Brown University
  • Role: Research Assistant, Collaborator
  • Years: 2006-2015

Research: Other Areas

Fluid Dynamics, CFD, Aerodynamics, Molecular Dynamics, Cosmology, General Relativity
Project 04

Other Research Areas of Interest

EXAMPLES // CFD: Modeled multiphase flows through vaporizers and other complex flow paths, using state-of-the-art CFD packages such as COMSOL. Solid Mechanics: Analyzed and modeled with finite element methods (FEM) the structural integrity of complex structures undergoing creep, high cycle fatigue, and chemical corrosion. Thermodynamics / Heat Transfer: Developed and implemented a model to provide some basic understanding of the dynamics of combustion, through a simplified mathematical representation of the complicated reaction processes. Cosmology: Derived a perturbative solution for a massive, static, spherically-symmetric scalar field in general relativity, the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations; presented work at an international APS conference.

  • Industries / Institutions: University of Notre Dame, Piramal Critical Care
  • Role: Research Assistant, R&D Mechanical Engineer
  • Years: 2004-Present

University Teaching

Mathematics and Physics
Project 05

Adjunct Professor

Adjunct Professor of Statistics and Physics (with and without Calculus).

  • Institutions: University of Notre Dame, Northampton Community College
  • Role: Research Assistant, Adjunct Professor
  • Years: 2010-2016

Hobby: Photography

Project 06

Photography and Astrophotography

Main hobby for the spare time: from landscapes to toddlers, from weddings to planets and nebulae. Areas of expertise include also Photoshop and Lightroom.

  • Client: Various friends and family members
  • Role: Amature Photographer
  • Years: 2012-Present

Bio

Gianluca Puliti is the R&D Program Excellence leader of the Interventional Surgery business unit at Becton Dickinson (BD). In this role he oversees over 30 engineers, scientists and program managers over 5 sites across 2 continents. He leads the technical and program execution excellence exorts for BD Surgery globally, and is also responsible for promoting technology innovation, design engineering advancements and best practices, and team development initiatives. 

Gianluca brings over 12  years of experience working in multinational highly regulated industries, developing and leading high performing teams in new product development and innovation. He joined BD in 2016 as a Principal R&D Engineer. Since then, he has held several R&D leadership roles of increasing responsibility both in engineering and program management. Prior to his current role, he most recently served as the head of the BD Interventional Surgery Design Engineering Laboratory, doubling the size of the lab and its capabilities in just one year. Finally, as the co-founder of the BD Surgery Innovation program (Bumblebee), Gianluca co-leads the largest innovation programs at BD worldwide, impacting a number of BD associates that grew over 2,000% over the past 7 years, and keeps adding over $50M of new revenue streams in the innovation pipeline, year after year. 

Gianluca holds a doctorate and a master's degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He also earned two bachelors degrees, one in Aerospace Engineering and the other in Engineering Physics, both from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL). Gianluca completed the Innovation and Biodesign Executive Education program at Stanford University in 2017, and received the Project Management Certi{cate from Penn State University in 2015. Gianluca participates in STEM outreach activities in the community, volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, and is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Northampton Community College, where he has been teaching continuously since 2015. Gianluca is the first author of a number peer-reviewed technical publications, he holds several patents, and co-authored a book on nano|uids. 

Gianluca is a US Citizen, although he was born and raised in Roseto degli Abruzzi, in central Italy. He currently lives in the Greater Chicago Area with his wife Miriam, his two children, Sienna (8) and Matteo (4) and a miniature poodle, Hugo. In his spare time Gianluca enjoys playing tennis, 3D printing, photography and sky watching.

 

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” Norman Vincent Peale

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