Techincal skills: Medical device engineering, product development, biomedical systems engineering, pre-clinical and field clinical engineering, field service engineering, biomedical optics and microscopy, MATLAB expert, scientific software development, automation, CUDA programming, biomedical signal, image, and video data analysis, software-controlled hardware, algorithm development, arduino and raspberry pi development, Examples of my work can be found on my website: http://oliveiraengineering.com/

• Expanded systems engineering team to 9 people (multiple technical managers, engineers at all levels, and technicians) supporting mapping and therapy product development, business sustaining, and commercial and clinical support efforts. Actively managed priorities and workloads to ensure project milestones were met and employee workloads were appropriate ang aligned with company strategic objectives.• Lead systems engineer and subject matter expert on the development of new accessories to the AcQMap system for improved navigation during clinical procedures. Lead the development through all stages of the product development lifecycle and global commercial launch.• Cumulatively supported 50+ AcQMap mapping procedures globally

• Expanded systems engineering team to 6 people (engineers at all levels and technicians) supporting mapping and therapy product development, business sustaining, and commercial and clinical support efforts. Actively managed priorities and workloads to ensure project milestones were met and employee workloads were appropriate ang aligned with company strategic objectives.• Lead systems engineer and subject matter expert on the development and integration of the Qubic Force sensing therapy device into the AcQMap ecosystem. Collaborated with internal and international partners during the development, verification, and the global launch of the product.

• Managed a team of 2 - 5 people (Sr/Jr engineers and technicians) supporting R&D, Clinical, Operations, and Quality projects throughout the company• Primary R&D systems engineer on a novel pulsed field ablation therapy device development project• Support console manufacturing and field service operations to ensure high-quality product is being produced at the factory and installed at customer sites• Support initial clinical procedures at customer sites to improve the customer and clinical experience for all parties

• Developed software-based tools for optimization of the assembly and test process of the Clarifi imaging system• Implemented and automated an in-house manufacturing test process for quality checks of fully assembled Clarifi imaging systems. Defined procedures, developed software tools and acceptance criteria for tests within each procedure, and formally validated the automated software tools.• Developed and executed software verification & validation on multiple releases of the MI-Acquire software.• Developed algorithms for enhanced diagnostic quality of the Clarifi imaging system • Trained R&D and manufacturing personnel on protocol and work instruction execution and documentation

• Proposed and implemented new ticket-based database-driven process for tracking investigations to increase efficiency and management of timely complaint closures. New process has improved compliance, centralized the documentation efforts that accompany complaint investigations, and provides a searchable database for issue, failures, investigation details, and resolutions. • Major manager and technical contributor to product development, electrical safety testing, and documentation efforts needed to prepare a prototype RF ablation therapy delivery system for a First-In-Man (FIM) pre-clinical study in Europe• Responsible for developing and vetting multiple technological concepts (opto-electro-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems) for the therapy system with a team of engineers and scientists• Collaboratively defined and developed the system requirements, specifications, risk analysis, and integration, verification & validation plans for the therapy system• Worked with program and project managers to ensure key technical and documentation milestones were being met per the therapy system development project schedule and charter

• Primary systems engineering resource on projects focused on determining interoperability of the AcQMap System with third-party ablation systems. Generated procedures and reports as part of the successful 510(k) regulatory filing and clearance of the AcQMap System (October 2017).• Lead technical investigator, manager, and mentor of a two-person team within console production and manufacturing working on product complaint investigations, console failure investigations within the production line, and improvements to existing manufacturing test fixtures and procedures.

• Developed custom operational, analytical and visualization software for both the AcQMapTM High Resolution Imaging and Mapping System and therapy systems to enable new types of data acquisition, visualization, analysis, and experimentation• Participated in the design reviews of systems and sub-systems for the mapping and therapy systems• Managed and collaborated with a cross-functional team of scientists and engineers (catheter, electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and algorithms) to ensure seamless integration of the components that comprise our mapping and therapy systems• Developed and executed systems-level in vitro bench and in vivo animal experiments as part of design verification and validation activities for the mapping and therapy systems• Served as field clinical engineering support for over 20 AcQMapTM High Resolution Imaging and Mapping System pre-clinical human trials in Europe (UK, Germany, Switzerland and Czech Republic)

As an IGERT Fellow in the NSF IGERT in Video Bioinformatics Program at UC Riverside, I've been involved with the image and video processing of biological data from multiple optical and medical imaging technologies. I developed MATLAB-based automated and semi-automated methods for (1) measuring the growth rates of wildtype and mutant pollen tubes from confocal fluorescence microscopy video data, (2) measuring the density of animal bones from 3D computed tomography (CT) images and (3) measuring optical changes associated with seizure activity in the mouse hippocampus from OCT video data. Additionally, using the Amira and CL Quant software packages, I measured wound healing rates from in vitro phase contrast microscopy video data and measured growth rates of wild type and cigarette smoke treated stem cell colonies.

As a Bioengineering Doctoral Candidate in the Neuroscience and Optical Imaging Research (NOIR) group, I've been involved in a variety of projects related to the design and development of multi-functional spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) for applications in Neuroscience. A common theme in the work I've done is the development of software for OCT system operation and OCT image analysis. My early work was concerned with the development of characterization algorithms for classifying biological tissue using optical properties measured from OCT and polarization-sensitive OCT (PS-OCT) images. I worked on the developement of parallelized spectral domain OCT image reconstruction algorithms for high-speed multi-functional OCT imaging using NVIDIA CUDA and GPUs. I assisted in the design and development of a multi-threaded software application for managing the acquisition, processing and saving of multi-modality optical imaging (OCT, PS-OCT, Doppler OCT and Fluorescence Microscopy (FM)) and electrophysiology data using Visual C++/MFC. This involved designing the basic structure of thread communication and synchronization, implementing software-based control of hardware components using the NI-DAQmx and NI-IMAQ libraries, integrating CUDA and IPP based processing for real-time multi-functional OCT imaging and designing the graphical user interface for operating our spectral-domain OCT systems. More recently, I've prototyped a new version of the application using C#/.NET and the WPF framework. Finally, I've implemented the hardware and software necessary to perform optical coherence phase microscopy (OCPM) for quantitative label-free imaging of biological cells. On a systems level, I've performed optical alignment and troubleshooting of the optical and electronic components that comprise our two spectral domain OCT systems centered at 1310 nm and 800 nm.

- BIOL 05LA, Introduction to Cellular & Molecular Biology Lab, Fall 2010, Dr. John Oross- BIOL 05LA, Introduction to Cellular & Molecular Biology Lab, Winter 2011, Dr. John Oross- BIEN 159, Dynamics of Biological Systems, Fall 2012, Dr. Jerome Schultz- BIEN 175A, Bioengineering Senior Design, Winter 2013, Dr. Hyle Park- BIEN 175B, Bioengineering Senior Design, Spring 2013, Dr. Hyle Park

As a summer software engineering intern at a medical device startup company, I was in charge of developing and prototyping a cross-platform software package for 3D visualization of spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) data. At the completion of 13 weeks, we had a fully working Windows desktop version of the software written using C#/.NET and the XNA, MVVMCross and WPF frameworks. We implemented a standardized data loading feature as well as 2D and 3D visualization, multi-image registration and masking and visualization export features. The development of the software was tracked using the Git distributed version control system and the full project managed using Agile software development methodology.

Managed closing shifts of three to five people and ensured all required tasks necessary to closing the library were completedManaged the creation of a building punchlist for the east wing of the UC Merced library Designed and created a number of informational brochures related to library exhibits on displayCreated and modified building floor plans to be used as building maps and directions for patrons, furniture layouts for event planning and optimization of the use of physical space in the buildingCreated a 3D model of the entire library building using Google Sketchup and AutoCAD for enhanced building maps and directional information for patrons

University of California Leadership Excellence Through Advances Degrees (UC LEADS) Scholar.I worked under the mentorship of Dr. Kara McCloskey in the School of Engineering. My research encompassed two projects related to vascular tissue engineering. I began initial work on a project identifying specific growth factors or combinations thereof that control the fate decisions of vascular progenitor cells and on the development of a tissue-engineered cardiac patch for treatment of tissue ischemia resulting from myocardial infarction. Central to both projects was work involving vascular cell culture and maintenance (endothelial, smooth muscle and fibroblasts) and vascular cell imaging (light and fluorescence microscopy).

UCSD Summer Training Academy for Research in the Sciences (UCSD STARS) participant.I worked under the mentorship of Dr. Gabriel Silva in the Department of Bioengineering. My research involved studying the effects of the Amyloid-Beta peptide, the primary pathological peptide present in Alzheimer's Disease patients, and its capacity as an inducing agent of reactive gliosis in a retinal cell line. This work was part of a broader project to develop an in vitro screening platform for anti-gliotic drugs. I primarily cultured Muller cells from the rat retina and performed immunocytochemistry (ICC) to examine the expression levels of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) and Vimentin to determine the induction efficacy of reactive gliosis by Amyloid-Beta.

UCSF Summer Research Training Program (UCSF SRTP) participant.I worked under the mentorship of Dr. Tracy Luks in the Dynamic Neuroimaging Laboratory. My research involved using Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) to assess global brain matter atrophy, specifically gray matter, to determine the neurobiological basis of attention control and conflict monitoring. Metrics of these cognitive tasks are assessed via the performance on The Erickson Flanker Task. Using the Statistical Parametric Mapping 2 (SPM2) software package in MATLAB, we showed that areas of gray matter atrophy in the brain involved in attenion control and conflict monitoring correlate with decreased accuracy and increase response time on the Erickson Flanker Task.