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Boulder, Colorado, US

• Medical Device Design Engineer working in a multi-function role to support the development of innovative medical lasers indicated for use in the treatment of acne vulgaris by:
• Managing product development efforts through all phases of design, from feasibility to manufacturing transfer and on-market
• Building and maintaining medical device Design History Files (DHFs)
• Supporting product verification and validation
• Conducting Risk Analysis per ISO 14971 and building compliant risk management files
• Supporting Quality Management System development

Longmont, Colorado, US

• Process and automation engineer working to transform the fields of gene editing, undiagnosed disease, and oncology through discovery and detection of complex genetic changes by:
• Assessment of manual laboratory operations for reliability and improvements to yield, cycle time, and capacity
• Production process development, including laboratory automation via programmable liquid handling systems, image acquisition and analysis, and supporting software systems
• Responsible for development, execution, and documentation of engineering process verification and validation experiments
• Performing Bioinformatics driven design of custom DNA probes for customer projects to monitor for cytogenetic aberrations
• Managed facilities construction and equipment requisition for new laboratory operations

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Clinical Chemistry Technical Product Development team member responsible for:
• Providing on-market product support for Clinical Chemistry analyzers with cross functional teams
• Project management of Third Party Manufacturer (Canon Medical) engineering change projects that support product continuity, design improvement, and cost reduction of on-market clinical chemistry analyzers
• Responsible for development, execution, and documentation of engineering design verification experiments as well as feasibility testing of prototype parts
• Ensuring processes and procedures are in compliance with regulations
• Services, troubleshoots, and solves engineering problems with processes or equipment already in operation.

Dallas, TX, US

Biomedical Engineer working in a multi-function role to support the development of a Multispectral Imaging Device while maintaining existing DeepView MSI devices by:- Supporting senior optical engineering team in conducting optical metrology, feasibility testing, and characterization of MSI DeepView devices and development prototypes that drive design.

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Engineer conducting post-market surveillance of Neuromodulation devices while acting as liaison between the field and Abbott regulatory/quality departments by:
• Troubleshooting/resolving spinal cord stimulation (SCS), dorsal root ganglion stimulation (DRG), and deep brain stimulation (DBS) device issues with patients, sales representatives, and physicians
• Processing and documenting complaints regarding the St. Jude Medical line of Neuromodulation products that are used in Medical Device Reports (MDRs)
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments

College Station, TX, US

• Dwight Look College of EngineeringBiomedical EngineeringNonlinear Optical Imaging of Vertebrate Embryonic Development
• Led study to explore vertebrate brain development and the neural crest by constructing spatio-temporal profiles of gene regulatory networks via sub-10 femtosecond pulse microscopy (two-photon) and transgenic zebrafish
• Time lapse imaging to collect 4-D data sets of fluorescence reporting of the neural crest marker sox10 and melanophore identity regulator mitfa within the zebrafish brain between the prim-5 and prim-25 stage
• Visualized potential inductive gene regulatory network of oligodendrocytes in zebrafish
• Completed Thesis Manuscript Entitled "Spatio-Temporal Tracking of Melanocytic Differentiation and Migration of Cranial Neural Crest in Zebrafish Embryonic Development" (Spring 2016)

College Station, TX, US

• Responsible for instructing multiple undergraduate sections in ABET certified engineering coursework, grading laboratory reports and finals for department of Biomedical Engineering in College Station, TX
• Instructor of undergraduate Bio-instrumentation laboratory focused on circuit design behind medical devices, signal acquisition/processing, and Labview automation/data collection
• Instructor of Polymeric Biomaterials lab focused on polymer fabrication and testing/SEM analysis; emphasis on drug delivery and implants

Columbia, MO, US

• Biomedical optics research in early detection of cancer/treatments
• Studied radiofrequency cancer ablation techniques and co-conducted pilot study in the use of nano-particles and nanosecond pulsed electric fields to effectively ablate breast cancer cells (Fall 2011-Spring 2012)
• Presented research at MU-Bond Life Sciences Convention(Summer 2012)
• 2nd-author of “Nanoparticle Mediated Thermal Ablation of Breast Cancer Cells Using a Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field” submitted to IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience
• Led study to validate photoacoustic flow cytometry detection of circulating melanoma cells in flow with effort to define frequencies that characterize the cell and by developing a method of dark field microscopy and.
• Presented research at MU-Bond Life Sciences Convention (Spring 2013)

ACCT Certified Tour Guide trained to safely escort tours through a zipline course. Heavy use of climbing equipment and mechanical parts.

Master’S Degree, Biomedical Engineering

Biological Engineering, Bio-Medical Emphasis