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Menlo Park, California, Us

Head of Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Algorithm Development, and all aspects of the "smarts" in our advanced thrombectomy system.

Lead the Systems and Electrical Engineering activities at a fast-paced medical device startup.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

(Company acquired by Boston Scientific)Design circuits/architecture, simulate, assemble, test and verify electrical sub-systems of a high-voltage (~2kV) therapy product for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation. Transfer designs from prototype to production at contract manufacturer. Interface with and manage contractors and vendors acting as extensions of the R&D group. Perform system level testing and experiments to understand system interactions and work with various engineers to resolve technical issues. Write software programs in MATLAB to analyze bench and clinical data and expedite manufacturing test. Support clinical and pre-clinical cases on site in the US and Europe as the Engineering representative.

Manager for the R&D team at Sonitus Technologies, including Hardware, Software, Mechanical, Test, and Technician groups. Focus and steer direction of product development, from concept through initial production. Fast paced environment with high customer demands. Manage R&D department budgets, staffing, and external resources. Product is a novel wearable communications system.

Independent consultant for hardware / system designs. Created hardware architectures, schematics, BOMs, and interfaced with vendors for layouts of new boards for various applications. Clients included: Circuit Therapeutics and Sonitus Technologies.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Product manager for several Engineering Projects at EBR, comprised of 5 engineering team members. The largest project was for our 2nd generation device, including major hardware/circuit updates, mechanical enclosure changes, and a new software release. Saw project from concept through final verification. Other projects included software release intended to add functionality to the current system.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I was recruited by a previous supervisor to join a start-up company as employee #12, where I helped guide our product from the concept stage through clinical trials. I took on many roles, including R&D engineering, system- level feasibility and specifications, hardware design/simulation/testing, and software algorithm development. We developed a pacemaker-like medical implant capable of pacing the heart without leads via ultrasonic transmission to a small implanted receiver in the heart muscle. I helped refine the product concept, assessed the overall feasibility and power budget using measured and estimated system losses, designed the ultrasound transmission amplifier circuitry and phase calculation algorithm, simulated system performance using PSpice and Matlab, and designed, laid-out, and tested various prototype boards to emulate aspects of the system. I was an integral part of the brainstorming process for algorithm/architecture development and techniques aimed at maximizing overall system efficiency. I developed creative ways of locating and targeting the implanted receiver with focused ultrasound. I led the project to incorporate a rechargeable battery in the 2nd generation device, and routinely interfaced with outside vendors/consultants. I designed and prototyped a working rechargeable system including battery management circuitry, and wrote the software for battery longevity estimation.

Fridley, Minnesota, Us

Work for Covidien included development of a medical image processing application written in Matlab for use by the R&D Department. As the sole developer of the application, I planned and implemented the entire architecture and GUI. The application automatically analyzed images of dyed ablation slices in liver tissue, reconstructed the 3D ablation shape and performed quantitative analysis on the ablated volume. It included a full-featured user interface and the ability to be retrained and extended for other purposes.

Developed hardware and software improvements for Boston Scientific’s electrophysiology recording and mapping system. Designed filter circuitry to minimize interference between system components, thereby fixing a major system functionality issue. Led the effort to develop and test modifications to an RF Generator, making it safer and more effective, with the help of consultants and an outside manufacturer. Independently conceived and developed software simulation and system analysis programs in Matlab to diagnose noise problems in the real-time 3D Catheter Position Management system. Analyzed escalated complaints from the field and identified a solution to a potentially hazardous safety issue. Developed and validated standard test methods according to ISO standards, and coordinated efforts to test for EMC compliance. Wrote and updated LabView code to control test equipment and provide an automated testing environment for both hardware and software.

Ms, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bs, Mathematics