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Everett, WA, US

Kirkland, WA, US

Executive Vice President of Research & Development, and Chief-Technology Officer for Verasonics, the leader in ultrasound research equipment. Led Systems/Software/Hardware Engineering team, PMO, Quality and Regulatory, and Operations team. Released new Vantage NXT platform/product as well as many smaller releases..

Forchheim, DE

Sr Director for 90+ person team that includes Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Human Factors User-Experience UX Engineering, and System Test/Verification. The team is responsible for design, development, quality, reliability, and release of medical diagnostic ultrasound products, with concurrent development in USA, South Korea, Slokavia, and India.

Bothell, WA, US

Led the program portfolio and prioritization of engineering resources for 60+ projects/programs at FUJIFILM Sonosite, the world-leader in point-of-care ultrasound. Managed the program managers who were responsible for 10+ parallel product realization programs. Implemented improvements of program and portfolio visibility to development teams and executive.

Bellevue, WA, US

Led 30-person program and technical team to three successful releases of a prototype clinical system and one successful release of a commercial product system, for a privately-held start-up medical device company developing an innovative and non-invasive ultrasound-based therapy of hypertension. Developed processes and quality system complaint with CFR 21.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Senior Manager, Product Development / Program Management for Philips ultrasound products iU22, iE33. Successfully led 30-90-person domestic/international project teams to define market opportunities, negotiate business agreements with partners, develop and drive project plans and product roadmaps, and manage product development from inception to.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Senior Business Manager and Program Manager for Philips Ultrasound products HD3, HD9 and major joint development partner in Seoul, South Korea. Successfully led 50-60-person international ultrasound product teams consisting of Engineering, Marketing, Quality and Regulatory, Manufacturing and Service. Defined market opportunities for emerging market.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Project Manager for 20-30-person engineering teams working on 6 releases of the iU22, iE33 ultrasound products. Rotated between software, hardware, and system teams during the three years. Awarded by executives for excellence in project management, and the ability to drive technical teams and work well with cross-functions such as Marketing and Supply.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Project Engineer leading 10-20 engineers in the development of new ultrasound products. Selected as Project Engineer for an architectural team designing a brand new mid-range ultrasound product.

Principal Software Engineer leading a technical team in the creation of new features for the HDI-1000 next-generation diagnostic ultrasound system.

Led new business development and engineering for a start-up company focused on designing and manufacturing high-frequency ultrasound devices for medical, biological, and pharmaceutical applications

Villigen PSI, Aargau, CH

Led the design of optics for an air-borne spectroscopy system intended to measure atmospheric pollutants over the Swiss Alps.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

Investigated new navy sonar designs using finite element analysis, and tested under-ocean prototypes.

Phd, Medical Biophysics

Msc, Medical Biophysics

Beng, Engineering Physics

Dipleng, Engineering