Vp Of Engineering
Austin, Texas, Us
• Oversee engineering personnel and perform day-to-day tasks primarily related to, but not limited to: design, manufacturing, regulatory, intellectual property, etc.• Lead role in IP strategy development and execution in conjunction with hired legal representation and advisors.• Manage/execute development and execution for initial product lines, and develop R&D strategy to align with voice of customer work, go-to-market strategy, commercial adoption, 3rd party validation, regulatory/QMS, manufacturing, and future/additional product lines and expansion.• Management Representative executing construction, review/evaluation, and revision of QMS to assure product quality and services in conjunction with quality advisor.• Assist Clinical Lead in designing and executing cadaver and animal labs to obtain product insights relating to engineering, clinical, regulatory, and commercial perspectives. • Perform extensive voice of customer work. Understanding true underlying problems of various stakeholders (i.e. end-users, benefactors, saboteurs, payers, influencers, etc) and implementing solutions to address over-arching needs for market adoption.• Generate and update budgets for launch and maintenance of ClearCam Engineering R&D lab to align with business strategy.• Assisted in seed round fund-raising for total of $815K raise.• Lead start-up competition and accelerator efforts resulting in acquisition of $94K non-diluted funding.• Awarded $191K (non-dilutive) as Principal Investigator of NIH SBIR for R&D.• Co-founded company based on PhD Dissertation research.