Global director of design quality assurance for Karl Storz surgicalinstruments, electro-mechanical devices, visualization products and embedded software. Overseeing all operations, employee development, process improvements, and strategic planning for integration test engineering, software and device verification engineering, system verification for product registration (510k/PMA), operations test support, global automation framework development, and test automation.

Directed product development lifecycle test and verification engineering at Karl Storz Imaging for the surgical cameras product line. Core responsibilities: Setting strategic goals for department organization and operations, productivity, and growth; ensuring disciplines within department are collaborating, operating efficiently, and technically current; developing employees and building highly effective teams; working with other department heads to ensure inter-departmental efficiencies and quality output of product development projects; establishing departmental budgets and spending; management of department assets; overseeing global QMS initiatives related to Engineering design controls.

Led department in Engineering that ensure product design quality through software quality assurance (SQA), design verification (DVT), and test automation services for Karl Storz's suite of surgical cameras, video capture devices, operating room video routing devices, and image editing software. Ultimately responsible for ensuring Karl Storz products meet their software and system requirements, and meet safety, performance, compliance, and quality standards, prior to release to production.Achievements:• Quality: Out-performed all other departments in annual external (SPICE) audits. • Growth: Built up the DQA department from three employees to 30. Consolidated hardware, firmware, and software verification functions under an umbrella set of deliverables and protocols. • Globalization. Directed company’s transition from a disparate set of local design verification processes and deliverables to a single set of global processes and deliverables: • Agile. Established company’s software quality assurance strategy for Agile software development processes.• Automation. Provided design concept and vision for company's automated test solution. Went from zero to 60% of all tests automated. • Established network of distributed DQA resources in three states nationwide.

Software quality assurance engineer responsible for software and system-level verification on Karl Storz products; responsible for writing test plans and test cases, managing test equipment, tracking issues, and developing automated tests; key contributor to software requirements specifications; tasked with expanding and streamlining SQA processes to meet evolving FDA regulations.

Authored and co-authored Web sites and Web applications as a paid consultant, including the following:• Coursebuilder (author), a Web application for instructors to create online course sites. Designed an SQL Server database to store course information; used ASP technologies to save and retrieve course information through the Web; integrated the application into the English Department administrative databases. (http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/curriculum/index.asp#coursebuilder. Note: Site is no longer maintained.).• Transcriptions (co-author), an online research center.Provided IT solutions using database back-ends, JavaScript, VBScript, and DHTML. (http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu . Note: Site is no longer maintained.).