Michael Auld, PE, currently serves as an Engineering Fellow and Principal Engineer at Kaleidoscope Innovation and Product Design since March 2018. Prior to this role, Michael held the position of Principal Engineer at Ethicon Endo-Surgery from April 2011 to March 2018, and was the Manager of R&D at Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company, from June 2005 to April 2011. Michael's career began at Synergetics, where the role of Director of R&D was held from 1994 to 2005. Michael Auld obtained a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology between 1996 and 1998 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1983.