Aaron Ashby Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Co-Piloted novel development knowledge base utilizing Retina (Codebeamer Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management Solution). - Exercised idealized work processes to meet actual project needs while challenging and.
• Led crossfunctional SME's in effort to identify, document and communicate critical components for cancer diagnostic system.
• Oversaw the complete effort for revision of existing validated tool for study management and data collection.

Tucson, Arizona, United States

• Authored, executed and reported out on Verification and Validation protocols for the confirmation of product and customer requirements.
• Led cross-functional team in pioneering a new strategy to verify the material compatibility requirement for new part used in the Ventana benchmark instrument line.
• Led the design, development and validation of a web application that automates the management and data collection processes during participant based studies used to validate the customer requirements of Ventana products.
• Coordinated the configuration management effort for multiple platforms used in V&V testing and closed out documented evidence required as part of product release.

• Led team on the design, development and validation of a virtual reality-based platform for training clinical teams in advanced cardiac life support. Winner: Best Research Prototype 2012, see Awards section below.
• Facilitated brainstorming & concept mapping sessions early in pre-production in order to unify the design team, clarify the project’s vision, and define its scope.
• Communicated with programmers, designers and subject matter experts (nurse educators) throughout the development cycle to achieve functional goals and ensure consistent quality.
• Organized test-groups for user feedback, which guided adjustment to interface design and changes to gameplay.
• Collaborated as co-author, writing and editing articles for 2013 publication in professional journals.
• Formulated design specifications for clinical content by soliciting input from expert trainers of Advanced Cardiac Life Support and by translating the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines into clinical.

• Determined educational requirements for a prototype laparoscopic surgery simulator that was built on the Unreal Development Kit from Epic Games. Consulted on the design of its clinical environment and assets.
• Managed multiple research projects within the Simulated Education and Training (SimET) center at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital. This included creating proposals, developing experimental protocols, training all support.
• Created an animated surgeon by writing the script, recording an actor’s vocal performance, editing audio files and adjusting the movements and facial gestures of the virtual character for realistic performance.
• Led team in independent usability analysis and A4 process evaluation of new patient monitoring equipment from Philips Healthcare. This work was conducted in a simulated hospital setting and particular attention to.
• Conducted research in hospital operating rooms for over forty live surgeries to examine the effect of pre-surgical warm-up on surgeon performance. The head of surgical residency entrusted me to setup video recording.
• Created an agent-based model of medical team behavior that explored resiliency to errors and interruptions during surgery.

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Established baseline data for future R&D projects by operating state-of-the-art tissue processing & staining machines designed for immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in-situ hybridization (ISH).
• Conducted laboratory experiments under direction of senior R&D engineers to characterize an existing automated histological process, identify shortcomings and address them by systematic empirical exploration of the.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

• Built and operated custom machines designed for state of the art radial compression of medical catheter balloons and vascular stents.
• Designed experiments that evaluated the performance of company machines at processing product samples of prospective customers. Created customer specific tests to identify optimal process parameters.

Master Of Science (Ms), Biomedical Informatics

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering, Biomedical/Medical Engineering