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San Mateo, CA, US

San Carlos, California, US

• Designed and implemented key components for a consumer electronics medical device. Implementation required component selection, plastics/electronics design, firmware integration, automated and manual testing, and data.
• Firmware development in C for a Cortex-M4 based system using Bluetooth LE and interfacing with hardware peripherals using protocols such as SPI, I2C, and PDM
• Created edge AI machine learning model to determine flow rate of breath in real time on an embedded system using microphone audio and TensorFlow Lite
• Implemented unit testing and led integration / regression / HIL testing for embedded firmware
• Designed and fabricated fixtures for manufacturing, test, and calibration of a Class 2 OTC medical device
• Created an online dashboard for real time analysis of field performance data using Python and SQL

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Partnered with cross-functional team to conduct design verifications, test method development, process validations, change orders, NCMRs and CAPAs for a Class 3 medical device in an ISO 13485 quality system
• Led root cause analysis of device failures to improve manufacturing processes and eliminate reoccurrence of issues
• Owned device’s risk management files using FMEA per ISO 14971

San Diego, CA, US

• Developed code to calculate and visualize fluid dynamic properties using Python and MATLAB
• Investigated how left ventricular assist device support alters fluid flow in the left ventricle with a focus on thrombus risk. Work was presented at national conference and a paper is currently in review
• Assisted fellow graduate students conduct and troubleshoot their experiments
• Wrote MATLAB scripts to automate repetitive tasks in analyzing experimental data
• Modified experimental models in order to test new conditions

San Diego, CA, US

• Coordinated and collaborated on documents and engineering change orders (ECO) in an FDA-regulated quality system
• Created training materials for in-house software development processes and software
• Helped administer a TFS software development environment/code repository serving approximately 350 users
• Developed and ran scripts testing software and server functionality

La Jolla, CA, US

• Completed senior project with SPAWAR SSC, a navy organization which focuses on information superiority
• Designed engineering solution and contacted vendors to procure parts for use in a prototype automated vehicle
• Created models using Solidworks and participated in product design-justification presentations
• Machined mounts and connectors for electro-mechanical control of a vehicle
• Assembled and tested prototype automated vehicle prior to handing off further development to sponsor

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering (Bsme)