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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Led the Technical Program Management Team

San Francisco, California, US

Bellevue, Washington, US

Goal: Develop & commercially deploy the first mobile-focused, nested and virtualized system for storing mobile applications on a public cloud & streaming to client device. As a result, providing users with unlimited mobile app data and zero friction when it comes to running any app, despite device compatibility.

Seattle, WA, US

• Goal: Create portable, disposable, user-friendly, paper-based microfluidic, viral/bacterial detection device for multiple pathogens such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, Ebola, Influenza, Dengue.
• Designed and conducted tests in biosafety level 2 labs.
• Verified the microfluidic device by collecting temperature data using thermocouples, designing experiments for testing chemical interaction, and performing medical device repeatability tests.
• Fabricated the microfluidics device by designing parts in SOLIDWORKS, 3D printing, laser cutting, and constructing prototype in a clean room.

• Goal: Create a wearable, noninvasive blood monitoring device for detection of multiple blood components including, but not limited to, glucose, hemoglobin, iron, albumin, etc.Skills and Achievements:
• Drove product/engineering program initiatives by leading cross-functional engineers across mechanical, biomedical, chemical, and electrical engineering by creating a clear product goal and aligning team members.
• Conducted, processed, analyzed experiments and drew conclusions from experimental data using industrial and prototype Raman Spectrometers and data filtering algorithms (MATLAB).
• Developed a gold standard for our optical device testing by creating tissue phantoms that mimicked optical properties of human tissue, utilizing protocols from the Beckman Laser Institute.
• Utilized Principal Component Analysis, Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy, and Bayesian Statistics to filter tissue optical data, isolate blood vessels from tissue, and isolate molecular structures from other blood.
• Cofounded a University Research team of 80+ engineering students, 3 laboratories, and 4 professors.

Irvine, CA, US

• Goal: Create a hand-held, portable, non-invasive spectrometer for measuring pulse rate and intravascular hemoglobin using a ring of LEDs in a spectral range, lenses, and a CMOS detector.Skills and Achievements:
• Created device prototype by designing, ordering, and assembling optical hardware including lenses, LEDs, and CMOS detector.
• Collaborated with the Virtual Photonics Group at the Beckman Laser Institute for software design for pulse rate calculation and hemoglobin concentration measurements.
• Saved the team thousands of dollars by budgeting funds for device prototyping.
• Created artificial human tissue samples that matched optical properties of real human tissue using protocols from the Beckman Laser Institute.

Irvine, CA, US

Goal: To understand the behavior of macrophage cells in surgically implanted materials that suppress the immune response, and increase the lifetime and performance of implanted biomaterials, such as heart valves

Los Alamos, NM, US

Performed real-time polymerase chain reaction experiments to test viral DNA against cloned genomic fragments in order to create positive control viral DNA surrogates that can be used safely in clinical trials and for testing assay detection machinery. I also performed a literature review of cloned genomic fragment testing and began writing a paper that.

Los Alamos, NM, US

Analyzed the behavior of laser driven oblique shock waves through hydrocarbons to better understand complex shock wave behavior. Worked with Helios, a one-dimensional, Lagrangian code, to reproduce results from an experiment using the OMEGA laser at the University of Rochester

Bs, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

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