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Los Angeles, CA, US

• Leading Product at Prism Labs, an ML and CV-focused company that produces 3D body scans from a mobile phone camera to power digital health & fitness. Key roles:
• Transitioned the company from a multiple depth camera-based hardware scanning technology to an RGB-only solution conducted with any smartphone’s camera, unlocking a new market for this category.
• Revamped the company's business model from direct-to-consumer to B2B2C, which is now successfully powering health and fitness businesses at scale via our SDKs and APIs.
• Spearheaded the overhaul of our CV/ML pipelines for 3D body reconstruction and body composition insights utilizing a single RGB camera, including establishing a validation strategy with research partners to certify the.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Led Product at DawnLight, an AI-powered company building AI products for the healthcare space based on fine-grain human activity recognition and founded by Fei-Fei Li. Key roles:
• Revamped the product org and brought alignment across all our engineering teams (ML/CV, software platform, hardware, and firmware teams), delivering our first 510(k) product to market ahead of schedule.
• Defined the strategy and led the execution of our product in the patient falls detection space using a single camera system, which was deployed within large payers and health systems.
• Spearheaded data collection initiatives to power the training of our fall detection model by constructing simulated hospital rooms and forging partnerships with major health systems.

Orlando, Florida, US

• DrChrono is the number 1 mobile-first cloud healthcare EHR platform. Key roles:
• Led the Patient, Billing and RCM teams, which represented over 60% of the company revenue.
• Identified and led several strategic scaling and new revenue initiatives that allowed for our $XXM revenue to almost double under my tenure. DrChrono was acquired by EverCommerce in 2021.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• We got acquired by Envision Pharma Group in 2021.Head of Product (2012-2018)Co-founded and led from the ground up an enterprise SaaS software company (Techstars Boston '15) that helps life sciences companies turn.
• Built the business from the ground up and managed a team of 25 people that shipped products to top 10 pharmaceutical companies.
• Got to product-market fit and led the company to $XM in ARR.
• Engaged with c-level executives and users from some of the largest pharmaceutical companies to drive partnerships and understand their functional needs while maintaining the vision of a scalable product roadmap.
• Worked with Sales, Marketing, Design, Engineering, Regulatory, and QA teams to execute the product roadmap for short term users’ needs, always balancing the execution of the long-term vision of the product (3+ years).

Helped build a platform to connect patients and payers in addition to coordinating benefits and care. Contributed to the go-to-market strategy, conducted user interviews, and defined the first MVP experience.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Led product at Adherium, a digital healthcare company that is solving the lack of medication adherence in patients with chronic respiratory diseases like asthma (awarded the 6th most innovative healthcare company in.
• Set the strategy and roadmap of a cross-platform product that included a collection of connected inhaler sensors, mobile and wearable apps, and web portals.
• Identified, defined and aligned product KPIs to deliver value to patients, clinicians, health providers, and payers.
• Owned product strategy and the delivery of user experiences that require complex coordination between the hardware, firmware, manufacturing, software, UX, clinical and regulatory teams.
• Led user research, analytics, and user testing initiatives along with our designers to improve the current product and also de-risk the experiences in the product roadmap. The company merged in 2019.

Boston, MA, US

• As an Entrepreneur in Residence at the VDC, one of Boston’s leading incubators for tech-based companies, I specialized in helping technology companies and entrepreneurs:
• Navigate enterprise customer pain points to clearly distill the problem they are trying to solve while ensuring their vision of a scalable product is maintained.
• Understand how to manage and grow their cross-functional teams.

New York City, New York, US

I mentored local startups at Techstars' pre-accelerator programs, helping them define their product-market fit strategy, scale their products and manage/structure internal teams.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Directed the technical execution of the DACHOR project, a wearable medical device to restore lost foot motion in drop foot patients, which comprised a robotic brace coupled with an electronic muscle stimulator (under.
• Managed a team of 5 from initial engineering concept up until clinical trials.
• Built relationships and engaged with patients, medical professionals and partners, and used their feedback to define requirements, design features and plan the product roadmap alongside with the engineering team.
• Contributed to the project as a hardware and software engineer, having worked in a new portable muscle stimulator, and machine learning models that predicted and controlled the motion of the foot in patients with drop.
• Had my machine learning modelling work recognized with the first prize for best engineering research of practical utility in 2014 by the Fraunhofer Institute.

Cambridge, MA, US

• Taught a variety of engineering and innovation courses at the University of Lisbon and at MIT:
• Biomedical Devices and Technologies Course;
• Project Innovation in Biomedical Engineering;
• Biomechatronics;
• Biomechanics of Movement.

Coimbra, PT

• Developed a computational method that helped predict the likelihood of a patient having a neurodegenerative disorder based on volume measurements of subcortical brain structures obtained from magnetic resonance imaging.

Lisbon, PT

• Developed a new microfluidics design and implemented it in a platform that used electric fields to guide and identify molecules.
• This platform was later integrated on a Lab-On-A-Chip device for quick blood testing.

• In a team of 2 engineers, led the execution, set timelines and key deliverables of a platform to optimize aircraft routes and cosmic radiation exposure. Resulting optimal routes were adopted by the Portuguese Air Force.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mit Portugal Program In Bioengineering Systems

Mit Portugal Program Advanced Studies, Bioengineering Systems

Msc, Biomedical Engineering

Bsc, Biomedical Engineering