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Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States

Merrimack, New Hampshire, US

Manchester, NH, US

Test manager within the R&D department developing the company’s Hemocare Hemodialysis System Management oversight of system testing including test case and test record review Contributing to 510K submission report

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Manager within the R&D department developing the company’s Intravascular Imaging and Physiology Measurement systems, responsible for verification and validation activities including automation and functional software.
• Management oversight of user needs validation, system testing, software testing, across multiple product development projects
• Formation of software automation testing team along with automation testing framework
• Quality process integration of automation testing
• Offshore testing coordination
• Third party vendor coordination for language translations for international markets

Abbott Park, Illinois, US

• Lead Software Quality engineer within the R&D department developing the company’s Intravascular Imaging and Diagnostics systems
• Core Team member of cross-functional development team involved with software design and testing phases of new product development
• Supervision and planning of team activities including managing and prioritization of all verification activities and implementation of verification plans
• Creation of test plans, strategy and testing scope for each project
• Generation of technical reports of test results following defined documentation procedures
• Development of standard operating procedures and work instructions to improve test writing and test execution

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• St Jude Medical is now Abbott Medical! Lead member of the SQA department developing the company’s intravascular diagnostics and Imaging system
• Core Team member of cross-functional development team involved with design and testing phases of new product development
• Supervision and planning of team activities including managing and prioritization of all verification activities and implementation of verification plans
• Supervision of team member’s daily and weekly activities
• Managing and developing new software requirement specifications
• Development and maintenance of testing methods

• Consulting member of a digital pathology startup developing an image based diagnostic platform
• Developing and testing of a fluorescence based image analysis algorithm
• Creation of an image analysis and reviewing platform for tissue and cell based diagnostics

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Member of the V&V team working to ensure the company’s Surgical Navigation and Computed Radiography Imaging Systems meet published specifications and are compliant with quality system regulations
• Responsible for the design, development, documentation and execution of device verification & validation tests

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• Member of the Software Development, SQA and Advanced Technology teams developing the company’s intravascular diagnostics and imaging system
• Led efforts to build ‘ground truth’ image-based databases of intravascular plaques, and other clinically relevant features to provide a training and testing framework for automated detection algorithms
• Managed and developed software requirement specifications including decomposition of customer requirements and development of system performance specifications in collaboration with Marketing, Regulatory, Design.
• Led design verification efforts involving writing test plans and protocols, determination of performance acceptance criteria and test data collection
• Supported software development efforts (C++) by managing verification, validation and testing using Matlab-based data analysis tools
• Supported the SQA dept. by executing test protocols for software release, performing defect tracking duties including verification of change requests, and risk assessment and hazard analysis (FMEA)

• Member of the Data Analysis team developing an automated system for rapid bacterial strain typing using proprietary Genome Sequence Scanning (GSS™) technology
• Performed qualitative analysis of large numbers of sample data to build databases of GSS genome sequences for bacterial strain detection
• Successfully automated numerous manual analysis processes by implementation of various macro and Matlab based applications to enhance workflow, reduce human-based errors and user fatigue
• Developed test datasets and performed validation studies on in-house software applications
• Analyzed source code (Matlab) to identify and correct processing inefficiencies and to improve performance
• Supervised day to day operations and activities of microfluidic data acquisition processes, involving SOP creation and training, delegation of workload, maintenance identification and device performance tracking

• Member of the Imaging & Engineering team developing a proprietary cancer diagnostic and monitoring system based on microfluidics and fluorescence microscopy to enumerate and characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs)
• Developed a proprietary CTC classification system and database
• Developed classification guidelines of tumor cell candidate images to increase cell identification accuracy through basic ANOVA and gauge R&R analysis
• Assisted in the development and testing of automated computer algorithms to detect rare-cells captured in microfluidic chips to improve the efficiency and quality of the diagnostic system
• Developed procedures for testing the detection system including performance, acceptance and rejection criteria
• Developed clinical models based on both image and molecular characterization data

Ithaca, NY, US

• Member of the research team with a mission to gain better qualitative and quantitative understanding of the micro-environmental conditions fundamental to the pathogenesis and therapy of cancer
• Effectively designed experiments to characterize tissue-engineered constructs to research the effect stem cells have on the mechanical stiffness of their microenvironment during tumor progression
• Cultured and differentiated mammalian cells in natural polymer constructs to perform micro-mechanical tests through atomic force and fluorescence confocal microscopy in collaboration with interdepartmental groups

• Managed and directed operation of a large pedigree dairy farm in England.
• Increased milk production by 150% through implementation of feeding programs and controlled diet
• Extended longevity of herd by 40% thereby reducing operating costs through selective breeding of stock and improved husbandry
• Hired, trained and supervised staff to perform technical agricultural duties

M.Eng., Biomedical Engineering

B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering