Responsible for the delivery and execution of West’s Innovation and Technology Programs. Leading programs with high resource requirements, risk, and complexity. My areas of responsibility include working independently with global cross functional teams and customers, ensuring the continuous progress of large scale impacting programs. Responsible for the adherence to financial, program scope and timeline constraints. Identifying and managing cross-project dependencies, critical path, risks, and issues, and escalating when needed. Reporting directly to Senior Management, both on a local and corporate level, whilst providing transparency on program status updates, resource needs and/or conflicts, financial, commitments, and expectations of projects. Engaging all relevant teams and ensuring the adherence to business acumen. Maintaining strong relationships with customers, extended core teams, and senior level executives.

Created a separate system engineering group to lead advanced technologies as well as Abbott’s next system generation productsExtensive data collection from the field to leverage knowledge from existing system and implement improvement to new generation systemDefined new system architecture and requirementsClose collaboration with Algorithm, HW and SW departments (both local and global)

Worked within an interdisciplinary environment of engineering that focused on design management of complex engineering projectsEnsured all systems requirements were integrated within the projects requirement, that they were addressed, verified and validated as part of stage-gate process Developed and implemented processes for product and system performance validation protocols, performed assessment production methodologies, root cause analysis, and worldwide solution implementation Created the system future generation’s vision ("roadmap") and developed system-level testing infrastructure to ensure consistent methodology and commercial launch

Led the development and integration of intra-body navigational sensors used in cardiovascular, atrial fibrillation and cardiac management proceduresStructuring development work plans, setting milestones and deliverables, determining resources and budget requirementsRisk management and mitigations Close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams (local, and USA), subcontractors and overseas development centers

Led the GMC (Guided Measurement Catheter) project up to FDA approval Responsibilities included managing product lifecycle, close cooperation with various subcontractorsCreating solutions for engineering challenges, enabling successful launch of a multi-center clinical trial GMC was implemented to present MediGuide’s technology, which led to the MediGuide’s acquisition by St Jude Medical

Defined product requirements, specification, required testing and product architectureResponsible for all test protocols, reports and lab work Developed new test methods

Virtual colonoscopy V&V testing from data acquired from hospitals Debug test system Software and drive continues improvementWrite testing protocols and instruct the team