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Boston, Massachusetts, US

Mountain View, CA, US

Creating commerce enabling services to streamline the sale of products and subscriptions through implementing advanced order and subscription management features.

• Co-authored research on how wrist-squeezing force feedback enhances accuracy and speed in robotic surgery training, published in BioRob 2022
• Integrated haptic force feedback into a surgical simulator on the da Vinci Research Kit using ROS.
• Developed mechanical, electrical, and software setup. Code was readable, documented, and version-controlled with git.
• Conducted human subject trials. Used feedback from PI and other lab members to streamline data collection. Resulted in 25% faster trial times.
• Wrote and created figures for journal publication.

San Jose, CA, US

• Instrumented components to log standardized metrics. Created dashboards in Grafana to visually display these new logs. Onboarded components to common alerting infrastructure.
• Onboarded component to continuous delivery pipeline.
• Technologies used: Java Spring, Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, Git, JUnit, TestNG, and Mockito.
• Followed Agile methodologies. Led a retrospective.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Created a discreet medical device to combat mechanical nasal obstruction.
• Needed a way to characterize force outputs in prototypes. Designed and 3D-printed a mechanical testing rig that supported many prototype shapes. Rig allowed prototypes to be measured quickly and consistently. Data used.
• Wrote proposals for business plan competitions.
• Awards: Lemelson-MIT Student Prize 2018, NIH DEBUT Design Excellence Prize 2017, Collegiate Inventors Competition 2nd Prize 2017. Featured in Forbes, TechCrunch.

• Composed market analyses for proposed inventions based on academic and technological landscape, related market data, and value proposition in order to recommend a strategy for commercialization.
• Advised Hopkins inventors on future steps to reaching commercialization for medical innovations. Invention summaries are publicly published in online Hopkins database.

El Segundo, CA, US

• Developed a device and new procedures that improved accuracy of source measure equipment 10x in limited applications. Presented findings in presentation with company executives, research and development teams. Device.
• Created demonstration for EPC-enabled wireless charging devices to show competitive advantage over competing products in charging distance and consistency.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Engineering And Computer Science

High School Diploma