Pearle Shah Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

• Reduced manual retrospective runtime processes for issue management data by ≥98%
• Led the team as a technical solutions developer to fully automate the current issue management data quality check process to ensure data accuracy for inspections
• Leveraged Excel VBA / Macros to provide powerful visuals to output and interpret data discrepancies more effectively in an user-friendly way
• Developed prospective automated tools for data quality checks at a user level to prevent procedural errors early on

• Led efforts to gather user needs & requirements to automate the process of conducting data quality checks within the issue management space to significantly increase time efficiency, reduce human error, and enhance.
• Analyzed & assessed an FMEA to evaluate potential risks across 15+ functional areas & develop use cases for an analytics dashboard
• Worked with key stakeholders to develop training materials to understand how to visualize data from audits, inspections, & issue findings
• Served as a liaison between the front & back rooms of 2+ audits and inspections with external stakeholders like Pfizer and the FDA to facilitate discussions & auditor requests

• MS Thesis: 3D-Printing at the Point-of-Care: Patient-Specific PEKK Ankle Fusion Cages for Diabetic Patients
• Segmenting CT scans to design, 3D-print, & verify patient-specific porous implants for various applications through cadaver surgeries
• Conducting a retrieval analysis of hinge knee megaprosthesis from Stryker, Zimmer-Biomet, & Depuy
• Shadowing orthopedic surgeons in the operation room to understand hip, knee, & spine implant designs & common surgical complications

• Conducted literary reviews to analyze the relevance and effectiveness of PEEK in implants
• Engaged in full-time research to develop a 3D-printed, patient-specific, porous implant for a critical-sized defect in sheep tibia
• Learned and utilized 3D Slicer, Blender, MathMod, Fusion 360, and Cura to model and prototype the implant
• Created an abstract and poster presentation to go along with my project

• Prepare lesson plans for students in elementary, middle, and high school who need help in mathematics, science, and spanish.
• Engage the attention of students through different activities in one-on-one sessions while teaching them about the fundamentals of a variety of topics.
• Develop personalized homework assignments and notes to help them learn about challenging concepts and prepare them for tests.
• Coach high school students to prepare them for college.

• Communicate regularly with customers to plan and create an organized timeline of events and negotiate pricing
• Coordinate with each customer to develop a unique song playlist for the events
• Perform at events, such as birthday parties and religious occasions, by mixing a variety of international songs together and engaging with the guests

• Studied 5+ factors impacting particle characterization in parental formulations & conducted multivariate data analysis
• Identified & optimized ideal run parameters to onboard a new $50,000+ particle characterization instrument, FlowCam LO, & co-authored an SOP
• Designed a user-friendly application to automate & streamline buffer preparation calculations in early formulation development for 100+scientists & engineers
• Mentored colleagues & presented at technical team meetings with 25+ peers to recommend particle characterization strategies

• Forsagen LLC is a biotech start-up focused on creating biomaterial-based therapeutics to stop tissue degeneration in the space of osteoarthritis.
• Applied cell culture techniques to help lead, develop, and execute experiments for a funded Phase I SBIR grant focused on biomaterial-based therapeutics to mitigate and prevent tissue degeneration in osteoarthritic.
• Collaborated with external vendors to negotiate and procure equipment to develop an incubator space for the start-up
• Worked with a team of 5 people to plan research milestones and gained laboratory skills in a fast-paced biotech start-up environment

• Developed various formulations to investigate the properties of biomaterials through chemical & mechanical characterization
• Participated in the planning & testing of DOEs by analyzing data in Minitab to adjust the parameters of calcium phosphate bone cement
• Conducted SEM image analysis & presented results to a large team of 20+ colleagues
• Prepared 4+ engineering test files, device master records, design history files, & management of change documents
• Worked with the marketing team to carry out competitive market research to optimize the user needs & design outputs of a project

• Collaborated with graduate students in the laboratory to understand the anatomy of the spine and how to categorize various x-ray projections
• Utilized ImageJ to analyze, classify, and measure over 200 x-rays per week of scoliosis patients to design a computational model for surgeons that accurately predicts the best age and location in the spine to insert a.
• Coordinated with other lab members to verify the accuracy of the results and formulate a plan to meet the deadlines of the project

• Conducted research in the Biomedical Engineering Department with Dr. Pal, Dr. Townsend, and undergraduate students.
• Assisted in the background research and analysis of data for the Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research project, which was focused on creating an upper extremity exoskeleton for affected individuals.

• Received the instructor Red Collar and First Dan Certificate for my first-degree black belt.
• Trained in both World Taekwondo Federation and American Taekwondo Association styles.
• Coordinated and taught classes of about 10-15 students of all ages and abilities–including those with special abilities–about sparring, weapons, forms, and self-defense.

Bachelor & Master Of Science In Biomedical Engineering

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