Project management for interdisciplinary teams of data scientists and methodologists ensuring timely delivery of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AIML) projects. Customer facing subject matter expert responsible for defining AI projects for healthcare clients and accountable for the AI deliverables.

Responsible for product design and development phases from concept to production launch for biomaterials products and associated surgical instrumentation. Accountable for manufacturing process improvement, product formulation updates, and post market surveillance reporting of legacy products. Created working relationships with surgeons through operating room visits and design team cadaver labs. Worked with various prototyping methods and production level vendors for items ranging from human allograft, to disposables and metal instruments. Responsible for defining product specifications and ensuring surgeon input is considered while maintaining project scope. Maintain an awareness of everything spine; including surgical approaches, competitive products, standard instrumentation.

Randall Family Big Idea Competition Designed patent pending medical device to reduce IV line infections in hospital setting  Identified $6B potential market through analysis of health care landscape Developed distribution model navigating FDA, insurance coding, and hospital billing Primary market research of HCPs, nurses, and patients 4th Place prize against funded labs and existing companies in university wide competition

Conducted Research under Dr. Partha Roy focusing on breast cancer outgrowth and metastasis. Investigated effects of Profilin-1 and Smad3 on breast cancer metastasis  Developed methodology for testing cells in environments simulating radiation treatment  Analyzed experimental data to explain changing function of Smad3 on cell outgrowth at varying expression levels Established cell lines with MKL/MRTF gene mutations to examine cancer cell migration  Oversaw undergraduate researcher  Lectured on tissue engineering technologies and led ethics discussions Chakraborty, S., Jiang, C., Gau, D., Oddo, M., Ding, Z., Vollmer, L., … Roy, P. (2018). Profilin-1 deficiency leads to SMAD3 upregulation and impaired 3D outgrowth of breast cancer cells. British Journal of Cancer, 119(9), 1106–1117. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-018-0284-6

Worked on a range of research projects involving human pluripotent stem cells. Projects focused on Cardiomyocyte development, Endothelial Cell development, small molecule based stem cell differentiations, direct conversion between somatic cell lineages. Published undergraduate thesis; Influence of Stem Cell Source Gender on Endothelial Cell Differentiation