Who We Are

About Us
We are a network of medical technology industry professionals with breadth and depth of experience covering the Medical Device industry continuum. We remain passionate about the business and use our know-how to maximize value for the clients we serve.
Backgrounds include engineering, business, manufacturing, quality, regulatory and management.

Insightful

There are no one-size-fits-all solutions in business. Our job is to fully understand your situation, goals and challenges. We bring a breadth of insights to the conversation, collaborating with you to right-size solutions and facilitate results.

Integrated Solutions

A business is a complex system. Every person contributes to the outcome. Each technology and every procedure forges a path. Make sure they’re in the right direction. Every department is a critical contributor to your success. All components must be synchronized to maximize your potential.

I³ MedTech can help your company resolve the bottlenecks that hold you back.

Integrity

Trust is the cornerstone of good business. We will earn your trust through transparency, honesty and commitment to your success.

“Every accomplishment is based on action, not on thought… yet the thought is always father to the deed. Achievement starts with an idea, a perspective, a point of view, and an attitude: the attitude that no matter what, you will do what it takes to reach your goals….” Theodore Roosevelt

Our Founder

Valerie Ray

President

History

About the Founder

As a young physics student with aspirations to go into medicine, I had a rude awakening while volunteering at the hospital’s ER. Despite several years of volunteering, I nearly fainted one morning while watching a case, and escaped to the volunteer lounge with head down and cold compresses on my brow.

How would I pay back student loans on a BS in physics-salary if I couldn’t make it through medical school? So, I switched to Mechanical Engineering and never looked back!

Starting as an intern at a large medical device company during school, I was offered a full-time position in the company’s sustaining engineering group after graduation. I eventually led the engineering team for their largest product line at the time, supporting 24/7 high-volume manufacturing lines in both the US and England.

I continued in the medical device industry for the next 25 years, working with many technologies and in different capacities. I discovered I’m able to integrate business, technology and people, in a way that teams achieve big goals and people thrive at work.

My teams/departments have collectively reduced costs by tens of millions of dollars since the mid-1990s through targeted business systems improvements, process streamlining, process validations, automation, COGS reductions and design for manufacturing.

A driving sense of curiosity and passion for the medical industry led me to complete a MBA, MS in Mechanical Engineering (specializing in Biomedical Engineering), and now a Doctorate in Business Administration (expected graduation in 2023). I use decades of in-the-trenches experience, experience in the school of hard knocks and formal university training to holistically improve medical device businesses.

Let’s work together to resolve your company’s constraints. I look forward to hearing from you.

skills

Expertise In

Operations Strategy and Planning

Regulatory Compliance

(21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485:2016)

Manufacturing

Equipment/Automation

Supply Chain Management

Materials Management

Get In Touch

Valerie Ray Phone: 303-521-8401
Denver, Colorado
vray@I3MedTech.com