He's living the American dream and is not ashamed to say that, when he arrived in the United States from collapsing Soviet Union in 1990, his first mattress was pulled from someone's curbside trash.

To become one of the elite engineering minds in the country it’s not enough to have two master’s degrees in mechanical engineering field. To be one of the top medical device design engineers your mind must be wired differently, you must have a vision that’s outside the box of conventional engineering thinking.

For the past 30 years Michael has been leading his engineering team in development of many lifesaving technologies for the largest medical devices companies in the world. Among many constantly working with Michael are Johnson & Johnson, Smith & Nephew, Boston Scientific, Thoratec, Pentax Medical, Syneron-Candela, Depuy Spine, Codman, Terumo Heart, MedLine, ConMed, AngioDynamics.

Michael’s tremendous success is attributed to a unique approach he takes for every engineering project he is involved with. Having a solid product design specification is important but the design of any device is not just about the product functionality and performance its also about people who is using it. Michael and his team start every product design with the analysis how the product is received by medical staff, how its unpacked and how its preparade for the medical procedure. Smart medical device design must be able to minimize or prevent mistakes by medical staff, that’s why designing for medical device usability is so important for the development process.