This message may appear twice. Sorry, but I didn’t know that the OANDP-List
has a new address. So one of them will arrive I hope:
To all of you connected to the OandP-List:
A good old friend of mine, who has just finished a limited 3-year contract
with Permobil the Swedish manufacturer of high quality wheelchairs, has
asked me to post a short resume and let all of you know that he is looking
for a new job in the US. He is a precision/mechanical engineer by education
and by heart and a most pleasant person to work with. Some of you do
probably know him.
Please let me know if you find the following abbreviated resume interesting
and if you have a job available in the near to medium future.
I will contact Maciej, who is just between a former household in Sweden and
an interim household in Poland.
Maciej Benedykt POKORA. Born 24.02.1950 in Warsaw / Poland.
1975:M.Sc.degree with “very good” rate from Warsaw Technical University:
Department – Precision Engineering
Speciality – optical equipment
1975-1997: At the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical
Engineering (at Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw / Poland:
1980-1989: Running own laboratory at the Metropolitan Rehabilitation
Center (700 beds) in Konstancin (Warsaw) / Poland:
1982:Designing the LETOR orthosis for paraplegia (follow-up
testing, 0-series, manufacturing; polish patent, design
and trade mark registered in Poland and Scandinavia).
1985:Bert Engman Stipendium from Permobil AB /Timrå/Sweden:
Designing the wheelchair for 2-3 years old children
(prototype, software specification, forms, testing).
1986:Licence for LETOR system sold to Svensk
Handikappteknik AB from Stockholm / Sweden.
Price award on World Congress of International Society
for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Copenhagen / Denmark
for ANGULATOR – the flexible goniometer (polish patent
155851;license sold to Orthos bv / Barneveld/Holland).
1987:Overviewing the testing of LETOR system in Sweden,
W.Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and USA.
1988:Assistance in developing local versions of LETOR.
1989: Member of International Scientific Commitee at World Congress of
ISPO in Kobe / Japan.
1989-1991: Consultant Biomedical Engineer at Rehabilitation
Hospital Project in Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates
(inspection, coordination, specification of bio-med-reh
equipment, tender).
1995-1997: At Department of Mechanical Development of Permobil AB in
Timrå / Sweden:
Concept of hybrid tie-down for electric wheelchairs
(prototype, testing, documentation, 0-series).
All-function motorized seat for critically low electric
wheelchair for driving minivans (prototype).
Concept of all-weather swinging seat for electric
wheelchair (prototype).
Modifications in manual wheelchairs made in USA to improve
the function and match with ISO and with requirements for
Scandinavia (prototypes, testing, 0-series, documentation).
Concept of self-adaptive backrest for wheelchair seats
(prototype, testing, specifications for patent application).
New style wheelchair ABS cover (design, form, prototype).
1997: Concept of mountain-bike performance sensor (prototype,testing).
1997: Concept of electric 2-wheeler (model)
Please respond to Wieland Kaphingst, ortho-bio-med
e-mail: [email protected]
