Eric K. Y. Chan, Phd Email & Phone Number

Burr Ridge, Il, Us

Burr Ridge, Il, Us

IPM is a business consulting and project management company providing on-site project execution leadership services to companies ranging from start-up entities to top-tier corporations. IPM is headquartered in Chicago with regional offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Minneapolis, New Jersey and Boston. IPM is a solutions company, meaning that we work with our clients to identify and implement right-sized solutions to their most complex business problems. IPM supports clients in the Life Sciences, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Consumer Products, and Industrial sectors.

Strategic R&D, program/project management and consulting services to domestic and international medical device companies in all phases of product development. Master Project Manager (MPM) certified by American Academy of Project Management. Satisfied clients include:● Abbott Vascular & Abbott Structural HeartExpert Consultant for RF Technologies used for cutting & ablation. Technical and IP contributor for development of renal denervation system. Consulted on electrode design, material selection and placement, as well as general catheter design for RF ablation. Contributed to RF generator architecture and ‘smart’ ablation energy delivery algorithms to increase efficacy and safety; intellectual property review.● EndoSense, S.A. (St. Jude Medical)Manufacturing Process Analysis and Improvement: Commercial ramp up and lean manufacturing of contact force sensing RF ablation catheter for arrhythmia treatment. Studied existing manufacturing process then recommended changes to streamline production and reduce time and costs. Applied Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and implemented Kanban methods to improve Takt Time and production yield.● Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc. (ART, Inc.)o Employ rule-based data mining and machine learning to optimize seed-beat candidates for template beat formation used for ECG beat extraction algorithm. My algorithm was licensed, implemented and commercialized by Nihon Kohden in a High Resolution ECG system that succeeded even in challenging use-environment (high electrical noise, muscle artifacts as well as respiratory baseline drift). o Inventor of wireless telemetry and remote charging systems. o Successfully raised ($5m) to purchase ambulatory ECG company. Subsequently hired by client as VP Research & Product Development.● Successful track record in strategic intellectual property consulting and fund-raising to assist start-up MedTech companies.

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

* Successful track record in on-time launching RF & Photonics devices include several revisions of PhotonBlade - an illuminated electrosurgery pencil, and surgical polymer retractors with illumination waveguides. * Applying Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid Project Management strategies to manage strategic product development programs and projects for the surgical oncology and cardiac electrophysiology markets. * Evangelist/mentor/coach for Project Management best practices in Cross-Functional Teams, emphasizing integration of Design Controls and Technology milestones in project plans (Gantt charts). * Organize and chair bi-weekly project portfolio meetings for enterprise program management in collaboration with project leaders and Vice Presidents; provide standardized template to team leaders for project reporting that calls out project scope, business and technical risks, stakeholders, estimated and actual milestones. Map and plan resources across all R&D and Sustaining projects in bi-weekly sprints. Hold daily stand-up's for projects needing to iterate quickly through development backlog and research spikes.* Author enhanced SOP's and Work Instructions for Class II Device Design Controls, including adding Feasibility Phase as gatekeeper phase prior to Project Initiation. * Co-authored PACE Journal article on avoiding damage to transvenous leads. https://doi.org/10.1111/pace.13519

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Advise and mentor startup’s on pitfalls and strategies to fast track achievement of milestones that shorten commercialization runway and satisfy investor and/or senior management expectations. ● Develop strategic roadmap for clients using phase methodology from feasibility to manufacturing transfer, implementing and managing “Lean and Compliant” systems that fully integrate design controls in roadmap. ● Strategic advisor to various startup’s for all phases of product development and launch. Collaborate with PRG experts to provide incisive and timely advice to clients. ● Satisfied clients include Vibronix (Photoacoustic Imaging for Tissue Analysis), EtherDyne (Wireless Power Transfer) and others.

Brooklyn Park, Mn, Us

Managing multiple concurrent projects in cardiovascular and neural stimulation fields, leveraging on expertise and experience in electromedical devices, disposables, instrumentation and systems. Responsible for managing inhouse & contract technical talent responsible for projects involving cross-functional teams focused on product development following design controls and phases. Ensure completion of program/project on schedule and within budget. Create and manage project plans & schedules, and track earned value towards deliverables. Functioned as key customer advocate and provided regular client reporting. Assigned/monitored work of project staff, providing support and direction. Projects managed include: * BivaCor Total Artificial Heart using MAGLEV technology, and ancillary devices to program and communicate with impantable artificial heart.* Handheld Inductive communications device to communicate with implant for epilepsy seizure control.* Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) System for Neurostimulation to aid locomotion in paraplegics, encompassing the IPG as well as the Physician and Patient controllers using TET and MICS band for telecommunications.

Fitchburg, Ma, Us

* Developed digital health and wireless technology solutions serving skilled nursing facility (SNF) and home care markets. * Invented remote charging and data transmission platforms for low power consumption ambulatory devices. Sensors would detect patient proximity and trigger remote charging of patient-worn device, while simultaneously waking up data transmission protocols from wearable unit to base station, then on to the cloud. US and EU patents pending.* Invented solution for cloud-based monitoring and diagnostics capable of virtually simultaneous processing of multiple streams of physiological data, vs much slower sequential processing. Utilized parallel distributed computing architecture fed by innovative design of streaming data packets. US and EU patents pending.* Invented AI algorithms to select seed-beat candidates mimicking decision process of a human expert, with a ML layer to successfully learn and select template beats for signal-averaged ECG even in the presence of electrical/muscle noise and baseline drift. This immensely successful patent-pending algorithm has been integrated into the commercial Predictor(R) software product since 2012.* Collaborated with Custo Med GmbH and Design Solutions, Inc. in developing and porting firmware into nextgen palm-sized telemetry base station for multibed ECG patient monitoring and real-time detection of bradycardia, tachycardia, pause, atrial fibrillation, premature beats, etc.

* Created and managed $3m+ annual budget. Hired, supervised, and nutured 15 technical staff: middle managers, senior and junior engineers, and technicians, in arriving at timely product solutions in disposables development and electronics systems development groups.* Supervised entire product development cycles with strict adherence to design controls, budgets and timelines. * Successful on-time delivery of Verification and Validation (V&V), and Manufacturing Transfer, of disposable ablation catheters and probes, guides and sheaths, electronics and systems for cardiac electrophysiology (EP) mapping & ablation catheter systems, as well as surgical (open chest and minimally invasive) cardiac ablation systems, for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).

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* Analyzed and designed an accelerometer-based system for "downhole" depth measurement using Kalman adaptive and predictive filtering algorithms to improve correlating well depth with data.* Designed, simulated and tested custom VLSI circuitry for a gate array used in optical telemetry.

Phd, Biomedical Engineering

Bioexec Certificate, Creating, Managing And Growing Value In Biotech & Medical Device Industries

Master Of Science In Engineering, Biomedical Engineering; Electrical And Computer Engineering

B.S, Electrical Engineering; Dsp And Communications, Biomedical Engineering

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