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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Irvine

- Sustained design efforts for maintenance, upkeep, and improvements to current and existing product lines/components, based on customer feedback, vendor/supplier recommendations, or technical issue resolution.- Designed a scope separation accessory to intuitively accommodate a maximum of 4 bougies and dilators inside the Aeroflex HLD's cleaning basin.- Conducted design validation tests as required. Created technical reports, test logs, and lab records per GDP, and routed them through Propel PLM.

Carlsbad, California

Design Engineer on the Posterior Fixation team. Developed and designed instruments for Open & MIS approaches to spine surgery, while adhering to FDA and ISO standards.- Worked with product lines from early prototype stages to production launch. Used SolidWorks for instrument modeling and drafting.- Design for manufacture, involving boring, milling, welding, and wire EDM.- Involved with basic inspection methods using calipers and micrometers.- Performed design calculations and analyzed data using Microsoft Excel.- Used Agile PLM for documentation control.- Attended numerous cadaver labs for several different procedures and product lines.- Responsible for 3-D prototyping using an Objet30 Pro machine.

Product development engineer for spinal lumbar interbody implant product lines.- Designed and developed a cage insertion/extraction tool and retention screw driver to be used with a standalone lumbar interbody implant.- Sustained design efforts for lumbar interbody implants.- Modified existing instruments per custom orders/requests.- Inspected custom-request machined parts and filled out the inspection and shipment documentation.

Greater Philadelphia Area

As a research assistant in the Injury Biomechanics Lab, under the leadership of Dr. Susan Margulies, I was involved on a project that attempted to characterise axonal injury in neonatal swine brains, to predict pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), by developing a prediction model.- Processed medical images (DTI, MRI, & histology) for the purpose of correlating the Finite Element Model (FEM) of the swine brain, to areas of axonal injury density and white matter tract orientations.- Devised a protocol for registration of Diffusion Tensor Images (DTI) of the swine brains to a FEM mask. - Assessed histopathology images to segment white and grey matter regions, to compare to AID levels in the brain.- Assisted in swine behavioral studies, which includes pre and post injury assessment.- Performed literature reviews and created summary reports as required by senior lab members.

Philadelphia

- Reconstructed CT and MRI scans of cadaveric human ankle bones in AnalyzeDirect and Geomagic Control, to generate 3D models of 10 different cadaver specimens.- Designed 3D CAD models of four different types of Total Ankle Replacement (TAR) implants in Creo Parametric, using anatomical geometric references from the reconstructed cadaver scans.- Developed a new simulation test protocol to analyze the surface-to-surface relationship between any two articulating bones of the ankle joint complex (also known as distance mapping). Cadaveric specimens were loaded onto a special jig on which the ankle joint was loaded in flexion, inversion, and rotation, and the resulting bone movements were recorded via fiduciary marker data. Used the fiducial data and 3D bone models to generate color-coded distance maps for the ankle and sub-talar joints.

Philadelphia

1. Fundamentals of Computer Aided Design: Conducted lab sessions and taught undergraduate engineering students the fundamentals of Computer Aided Design, using AutoCAD and Creo Parametric. Assisted students with their in-lab work, resolved queries, and graded assignments and exams. Also performed additional administrative documentation for ABET accreditation records.2. Engineering Reliability: Assisted the course instructor with all homework, quiz, and exam preparation and grading. Provided help to the students with their assignments and queries. Also performed additional administrative documentation for ABET accreditation records.

English Language Center

Served as a proctor and university certified grader for the IELTS exam conducted at Drexel University.Assisted with pre-test set-up and students' queries on test day.

Pune Area, India

- Handled minor design, and all procurement operations for two hydraulic system modules; a Top-up Water Tank Module for cooling system installed in an industrial furnace, and a Low-Temperature Plate Heat Exchanger system, also for an industrial furnace.- Designed small, non-standard parts to be included in the module drawing assembly sheet.- Interpreted and analysed the design, drawings, and requirements of each module individually. Assembled a spreadsheet in MS Excel for each module’s bill of materials. By expediting the procurement process 20% ahead of schedule, the company gained more leverage on their manufacturing and assembly timeline.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association (Financial Allocations Officer)Academic projects: 1. Implant design and surface.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: SAE-India (Student member)For the senior design project, my team-mates and I designed and fabricated a unique.