Management
Christopher L. Durham
President of Merit Sensor Systems
Chris joined Merit Sensor in January of 2006 after serving as an executive with our parent company, Merit Medical Systems.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in R&D, product development, new business development and quality assurance in the medical device industry and brings extensive business, industry and management experience to the team.
Chris has engineering degrees from the University of Utah in Bioengineering (ME) and Electrical Engineering (BS). In addition, Chris serves in a variety of engineering capacities in the community, holds three patents and is fluent in Spanish.
Rick E. Russell
Director, Sales & Business Development
Rick joined Merit Sensor in October of 2009.
Rick has over 20 years of experience managing sales and business development, including 15 years developing new business for MEMS devices in industries that include aerospace, automotive, consumer, industrial and medical.
Rick has studied mathematics and computer science at Eastern Michigan University and received an engineering degrees from Lawrence Technological University (BSEE). In addition, Rick has written and presented several papers/articles on 3D MEMS technology.
Scott R. Sidwell
Manager of Engineering
Scott joined Merit Sensor in September of 2003.
Scott has over 11 years of experience in a variety of engineering capacities from semiconductor companies such as ON Semiconductor and Motorola SPS.
Scott has an engineering degree from Brigham Young University in Chemical Engineering (BS). In addition, Scott has served in a variety of volunteer capacities and is fluent in Spanish.
Dallan B. Andrus
Site Engineering Manager
Dallan joined Merit Sensor in June of 2005.
Dallan has 9 years of process engineering and engineering management experience from companies such as ON Semiconductor and Westinghouse.
Dallan has an engineering degree from Brigham Young University in Chemical Engineering (BS) and an MBA from Arizona State University. Dallan is trained in Lean Six Sigma.
In addition, our production and support staff has significant, tenured experience in wafer fabrication, assembly, packaging and maintenance.
We look forward to working with you.