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San Diego, Ca, Us

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Platform Engineering R&D and worldwide core portfolio leadership for the $850M Infusion Delivery business with a globally distributed R&D organization.• Oversaw the development of advanced infusion products and solutions to close clinical gaps and enhance competitive positioning with 12% portfolio growth impact.• Led the core portfolio sustenance through elevated FDA and euMDR regulatory compliance risks and post-COVID supply continuity challenges to ensure uninterrupted product access to healthcare facilities and patients. Guided the teams to bring down potential backorder risks to zero.• Directed the Change-to-Win team in identifying and executing 6%+ cost improvement and 2% GP (gross profit) recovery year-to-year.• Amid significant organizational changes and workforce reductions, built and developed a high-performing team of 40 engineers across design centers in Italy, India, and the US. Cultivated an open and collaborative culture, prioritizing business goals and accountability. This approach resulted in a 2.5-fold increase in project delivery efficiency while maintaining product quality and safety, and significantly enhancing team engagement.

San Diego, California, Us

Led a team of engineers driving design, development and integration of precision mechatronics, robotics, fluid delivery, thermal control, optical physics, and consumables toward developing a cutting-edge blood diagnostics platform to provide lab-accurate results in 20 minutes for a comprehensive suite of health tests, from a small sample of blood.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Oversaw and managed the design, development, commercial release, and sustenance of integrated systems providing accuracy, efficiency, and safety of medication distribution.• Innovation technical lead – directed development of next generation automated medication dispensing systems leveraging deep customer insights and external partnership.• Systems leader – managed a team of systems engineers, hiring, mentoring, challenging the team to accomplish timely delivery of business milestones while providing opportunities for their professional growth. Laid a solid foundation for the team’s Systems Engineering skills including User Needs, Requirements Engineering, System Architecture Development, System Integration, Risk Management, Verification and Validation.• Functional excellence leader – steered several initiatives including FMEA process, embedded SW development process, critical parameter management (CPM), specifications development, design guides, unified user needs across products.• DFSS mentor – DFSS expert and an instructor in BD's internal DFSS certification training.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Designed, developed, and implemented complex bioanalytical system comprising opto-electromechanics, precision fluid handling, and intricate workflows.• Innovation - spearheaded NeoPrep Library Prep System development as the Lead Systems Engineer. Led a team of experienced engineers and scientists to drive system level CPM, development of critical specifications for device functions and interfaces – electro-wetting, magnetic, optics, thermal, and consumables. Directed reliability modeling and lifetime testing. Also served as the lead Systems Engineer for Project Firefly: https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing-technology/agbt-illumina-provides-additional-details-project-firefly• Functional Excellence – led several key Engineering Best Practices initiatives including Requirements Management excellence, Uberspecs, Design History File management, Critical Parameter Management integration into product development.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

• Led development of sample preparation platforms, Mondrian™ SP and Mondrian™ SP+ Systems for Next Generation Sequencing for NuGEN Technologies, Inc. • Played central role in developing requirements and resolving cross-disciplinary technical issues. Led subsystem specifications development, system performance optimization, system design risk analysis, system validation testing, product reliability and stability testing, root-cause analysis to rapidly address field failures. Provided technical support to Broad Institute, NuGEN Technologies, Illumina, and PacBio.

Research Triangle Park, Nc, Us

▪ Development leader for Sample Preparation assays based on Mondrian™ SP and Mondrian™ SP+ Systems for Next Generation Sequencing namely Ovation® SP Ultralow , Encore® SP Rapid, Encore® SP+ Complete, and Ovation® SP+ Low Input RNA-Seq for NuGEN Technologies, Inc. reagents (http://www.liquid-logic.com/genomics) and Library Preparation – Method 1 for NEB reagents. This included development of complex digital fluidics protocols, optimization of droplet operations and on-cartridge enzymatic reactions for robust and reliable sample preparation protocols.▪ Developed microfluidic cartridge lot release procedures and instrument qualification procedures for Mondrian™ SP System.▪ Developed system validation protocols, product reliability, and lifetime testing protocols. ▪ Planned and executed root-cause analysis to rapidly address failures at customer sites, provided excellent technical support to Broad Institute, NuGEN Technologies, Illumina, and PacBio.

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

▪ Developed an array platform for laser-based directed release of micropallet array elements into targeted microwells for high-throughput sorting of cells while working closely with a team of physicists, chemists, cell biologists, and oncologists.▪ Characterized microdevices for the in vitro study of isolated mouse colon crypts – modeled capturing of isolated three-dimensional crypt surrogates on an array of micro-sized holes using COMSOL Multiphysics.▪ Demonstrated application of microcup arrays as universal cell sorting platforms by sorting adherent and non-adherent cells for subsequent cloning with >90% viability.▪ Preliminary development of cell replication arrays for rapid analysis, sorting and culturing of single adherent cells - demonstrated printing of adherent cells onto PDMS using micromolded raft arrays.

Austin, Tx, Us

▪ Devised a novel low voltage approach for rapid concentration enrichment and separation of analytes using bipolar electrodes within microfluidic channels.▪ Characterized generation of electric field gradients via electro-chemiluminescence and electro-hydro-dynamic flow simulations within the microsystem.