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Vancouver, Bc

• Responsible for developing, testing and maintaining a complex software user interface for our research team and non-technical users that controls a high-speed X-ray shutter• Design and conduct mechanical, electrical and software tests for high-speed X-ray shutter in both lab and clinical environments• Perform clinical and technical roles in multiple clinical experiments• Liaise with surgeons and clinical technicians to create clinical experiment protocols, conduct market research and develop software that is easily used in a clinical environment• Have written and continue to maintain over 15 patent applications, corresponded with patent examiners and worked with surgeons and engineers to translate ideas into patent applications. Sole inventor of current patent application 14/274,536• Create promotional material such as 3D graphical animations (Blender), MS PowerPoint presentations, videos of clinical trials (MATLAB and Sony Vegas Pro), raster and vector graphics (GIMP and Inkscape). Several of these contributions generated valuable interest in projects• Devised and continue to maintain a document management system for company technical documents, intellectual property and internal correspondences. Taught and supported colleagues while they learned to use Confluence (document management wiki) to manage internal files and personal notes• Source and evaluate components, computers, tools and software for multiple projects

• Research outcomes included the designing and testing of new algorithms and optimizing existing algorithms using C++ and MATLAB to run in real-time for augmented surgery • Directed and supervised research contributions from intern to ensure successful integration of many research components• Research drew on specialized knowledge of noise-reduction, segmentation, feature extraction, data reduction and point matching techniques• Significant collaboration with a leading orthopaedic surgeon in a clinical study at Vancouver General Hospital that has provided real data to test research results and the opportunity to design a real-time system for intra-operative visualization of bone fractures

• Performed mechanical tests of robotic stem cell separator in level 2 biohazard laboratory • Improved productivity by facilitating the use of existing XML files within business operations by single-handedly creating a C++ application to access the proprietary company database• Designed, tested and documented new hydraulic pump calibration techniques• Created efficiencies in the verification testing process by rewriting and streamlining approximately 150 tests into 14

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Created and used an efficient testing procedure to ensure cell phones worked with the company's product, learning the Hayes Command Set to accomplish this • Exceeded expectations by testing all 50 cell phone models in half the budgeted time • Developed a GUI using C++ to automatically test the cell phones and record all results of the test into an XML file that can be imported into Microsoft Excel

Hannover Area, Germany

• Designed experiment apparatus in One Step Design (German 3D CAD software) • Performed over 1,000 experiments using industrial lasers to test micro-welding techniques• Wrote reports for the company, edited work for colleagues and helped improve their English

Master'S Of Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering