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Lafayette, Colorado, United States

Louisville, Colorado, United States

Technical software lead of a multi-year surgical robotics project with 30+ software engineers. Technical lead of a cross-cultural software architectural team responsible for building a scalable and secure medical device architecture that includes both real-time native and web-enabled cloud-based applications. Foster innovation, knowledge sharing, and STEM.

Louisville, CO

Design and develop software for Medtronic Navigation's Computer-Assisted Surgery systems. Specialize in communications between diverse equipment in the operating room. Serve as the software consultant to cross-functional engineering product teams to design and implement new features, focusing on surgical robotics. Work with surgeons and external vendors to.

Louisville, CO

Designed and developed software for Medtronic Navigation's Computer-Assisted Surgery systems. Technical team lead driving architectural software decisions. Mentor for junior software engineers. Worked within an environment highly regulated by the FDA. C++ on Linux, git source control, agile development.

Louisville, CO

Designed, developed, and maintained software for a medical system used by neurosurgeons to navigate through the brain. Specialized in implementing device communication drivers connecting various surgical equipment in the operating room. Presented product demos at neurosurgery conferences. C++ on Linux, CMSynergy source control. Serial, TCP, UDP, DTLS, CAN.

Buildmeister for Qualcomm’s MSM7500 world-mode dual-processor cell phone chip. Interact with driver teams, integrate the latest versions of software, and debug compile-time and run-time errors.

Completed a 3-year Engineering Leadership Development Program consisting of 6 rotations in the company (4 in software engineering – embedded C++, 1 in systems engineering, and 1 philanthropic – loaned executive to the United Way), leadership training, and a Masters degree. One year as tech lead on a program that develops mission planning software for the.

Designed and developed a real-time graphical moving map display tool in Java to track the location and status of a network of wireless sensors communicating via Java Messaging Service and XML.

Designed and developed a tool in C# to automate the audio stream portion of a phone call over RTP. Migrated unmanaged C++ code to the.NET framework.

Designed and developed a real-time graphical moving map display tool in OpenGL to track the location of mobile robots according to GPS data. Ported the real-time data capture and video display of the robot operator controls to a handheld PDA.

Worked with C++ code to fix bugs and add features to a transistor-level VLSI timing verification program for the Alpha chip.

Worked during summers and school breaks with the SEPICA instrument of the ACE satellite. Ran tests with the spare instrument, developed new data analysis methods, documented and presented findings to the team, and wrote data analysis programs in IDL.

Bachelor'S, Computer Engineering

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

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