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New Rochelle, NY, US

San Francisco, California, US

Developed C++ embedded application software for autonomous vehicle camera sensor control.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Managed a team of 3-7 embedded and application software engineers: Coordinated the team's work to achieve milestones in accordance with project timelines; conducted sprint kickoffs and retrospectives; provided feedback.
• Continued software development responsibilities alongside managerial responsibilities.
• Achievements: Designed and implemented network communications logic and general firmware architecture for next-gen R&D projects; fixed an SDIO driver and ported and optimized a WiFi driver over to a single RISC-V core.

Burlington, Massachusetts, US

• Developed and debugged a cross-platform (iOS, Android, Mac, Linux) C++17 library that provided control and communications with the company's iQ and iQ+ portable medical ultrasound probes, along with a performant image.
• Achievements: upgraded the library's core state control logic to use a state machine; designed and refactored modules to use a uniform approach to threading and state communication; adapted vendor FPGA firmware update.
• Tools: Git, GitHub, VS Code, Xcode, Bazel, Boost Test, gMock, Djinni, Jira, Buildkite, Splunk.

Munich, DE

• Designed, implemented, and tested software modules (C++) for the Positive Train Control - On Board Unit (“PTC OBU”) product, including software controlling the system’s safety features, as well as the user interface.

• Led hiring process for junior engineer position, including job posting, review of candidates, and interviews
• Managed the newly hired engineer; Developed training plan and provided guidance
• Served as QA team Technical Lead for Maintenance phase of FDA cleared ventilator product
• Architected and developed software (C) for medical device prototypes (using PIC and Xilinx Zynq processors)

• Primary responsibilities: Developed embedded C/C++ software (PIC and ARM microcontrollers running custom RTOS) for the company’s FDA and EU regulated transport ventilator devices, from software architecture and.
• Contributed to requirements definition, system design, hazard analysis, evaluation of components
• Refined company process and introduced development and management tools
• Contributed to development of Windows-based (C#, Matlab) test tools

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

• Developed embedded software (ARM & XScale processors running ThreadX RTOS; ethernet microcontroller) for the M300 and M540/M500 mobile (WiFi) hospital hemodynamic monitoring systems
• Primary responsibilities included translating clinical / technical system specifications into software design plans, and then realizing those designs in C/C++, under an Agile/Scrum development environment
• Other responsibilities included: developing functional test procedures, unit testing, investigating defects, participating in code and hazard reviews, and developing design documentation

Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

• Transformed device-specific hemodynamic processing algorithms into C/C++ libraries with a common API

Rochester, NY, US

• Operated METI Human Patient System (HPS), a high-fidelity computer controlled mannequin, to program and run medical simulations for residents and medical students in an operating room dedicated for medical simulation.
• Operated standard patient monitoring, ventilation, and anesthesia systems that would be found in an ICU or OR setting.
• Conducted hardware troubleshooting and repair for HPS and monitoring systems.

Rochester, NY, US

• Assisted in collecting cardio-pulmonary and EEG data using impedance plethysmography, flow and gas analyzers, ECG, pulse oximeter, and head electrode EEG array.
• Created a Matlab program with a GUI to assist in the analysis of research data.

M.Eng., Biomedical Engineering

B.S., Biomedical Engineering