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Greater Boston Area

Worked as part of a growing start-up to develop, and design products around, advanced medical imaging and surgical robotics technologies• Saved company tens of thousands of dollars in animal labs by developing a process for and fabricating a series of phantoms to model blood flow through vessels of varying sizes, at different flow rates, and at varying depths below different types of tissue to characterize perfusion and vascularity imaging systems• Leveraged Matlab to develop code that spatially and temporally processes raw endoscopic laser images and outputs a map of tissue perfusion and vascularity• Created a model of a herniated abdominal wall (w/ breathing motion) to test autonomous robotic stitching• Designed and built modular fixtures to drive rapid prototyping of endoscopic concepts during animal lab testing• Performed concept design and used SolidWorks / 3D-printing to model an advanced laparoscope product• Modeled and assembled a robotic system to perform autonomous laparoscopic stitching• Assisted surgeons to perform procedures and engineers to set up tests during animal labs• Successfully re-perfused a porcine kidney ex-vivo to study how an imaging technology performed with solid organs

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Worked as part of a small start-up team to design and validate a fully automated robotic system to provide safe and precise injections into the eye• Collaborated with the CEO and CTO of startup Ophthorobotics in a team of 3 from ideation through final prototype build to create a fully automated robotic system to provide safe and precise injections into the eye• Designed and built foam system models based on concept designs to perform usability studies with doctors and patients, which informed the next design iteration• Created a computer vision program in MATLAB used to track eye movement, shudder, and gaze fixation drift• Optimized a robotic eye motion simulator and created an anatomically correct fixture for use as a “test subject”• Designed subsystems, interacted with vendors, and ordered components for use within final prototype system

Gray, Maine

Worked with the engineering and production teams to develop quality products through thoughtful design and extensive testing• Created 3D models and 2D drawings in SolidWorks of manufacturable fixtures for assembly line usage while receiving exposure to geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)• Authored reports for management based on thermal testing performed on LED light fixtures• Devised and implemented lifecycle testing, high-speed amalgamator pattern verification, and motor torque tests to verify product effectiveness that culminated in written reports featuring design suggestions• Performed thermal testing on LED light fixtures and wrote reports on the results that were presented to Enercon and customer management• Designed the graphic user interface and workflows for a medical device using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

Catania Area, Italy

• Crafted a 20 page research paper in a team of five students to guide the internationalization strategy of Italian startup Smart Measurement Solutions• Created a mathematical model using Matlab to rank the viability of potential foreign markets based on SMS’s product as well as market data• Worked effectively in a team of five students from both the United States and Italy to present our market research and product innovation suggestions in front of over 50 people