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Wakarusa, In, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Managing the teams and resources required in the development, testing, and release of products. Responsibilities include product management; collecting customer inputs; requirements setting at the product and engineering levels; detailed project scheduling and resource management; coordinating efforts in supply chain and NPI for both SMT and TLA builds; defining verification and validation procedures and coordinating their execution; coordinating engineering builds and managing prototype status and distribution; engineering liaison to commercial and marketing efforts; executing internal design and development processes; coordinating design and phase gate reviews; managing the design history file and program level deliverables and documentation.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for the performance and integrity of the overall system, both during design and development of products and when making changes to established products. Responsibilities include requirements setting at the engineering level for both hardware and software; development of rigorous change management procedures to verify and validate performance when changes are made; creation and maintenance of work instructions outlining system level testing; test execution and reporting for both baselining current product performance and for verification updated product performance; management of risk analysis and mitigation; ensure traceability across requirements, tests, and risks, and address gaps as necessary.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Managing a team of 4-6 mechanical design engineers. Strategizing team direction, focus, and execution to deliver on short and long term deliverables. Collaborating with clinical experts both internally and externally and filtering gathered information into design requirements. Generating and reviewing 3D CAD and drawings. Partnering with supply chain both domestically and abroad to bring up new manufacturers and work through DFM/DFA issues in an efficient manner and to ensure accuracy, quality, and timeliness of products. Coordinating with project management to understand and communicate timelines, resources, and targeted deliverables. Resolving personnel issues and recruiting and building up the team. Implementing a revision and version control system, with help from a third party, for CAD files and similar information shared with vendors that needs to be well documented and controlled.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for beamforming and postprocessing algorithms and implementation in product and development tools. Instrumental in rearchitecting image signal pipeline to transition architecture from prototype to production and achieve clinically acceptable performance while running on a smart phone. Optimized imaging and signal processing parameters for all high frequency presets (vascular access, carotid, deep vein, small parts, musculoskeletal, superficial, soft tissue, etc.) through repeated iteration cycles with clinical sonographers and partnering clinicians to achieve extremely competitive image quality on a low cost platform. Conducted verification and validation activities for submission to FDA. Created automated image quality tests to run at manufacturing facilities to ensure consistent and acceptable image quality across all production probes. Leader of several short term, focused, cross-disciplinary teams to address critical issues, such as understanding and improving thermal performance and power consumption in the probe, ensuring battery safety and reliability and vetting and working with vendors to ensure rigorous specifications and inspections are in place, etc.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Primarily responsible for feasibility research in image acquisition algorithms, image processing algorithms, methods to improve ultrasound imaging and visualization, and quantification algorithms and methods to automatically, semi-automatically, or manually measure cardiovascular structures from 2D and 3D ultrasound images. Acted as technical representative and speaker at conferences, symposiums, clinical site visits, key luminary interactions, marketing and field training events, and customer clinical education events. Managed corporate research groups to bridge research and business interests and transition research into products. Managed research collaborations with external clinical sites to address clinical and research needs of clinicians and expand on the research portfolio of the business. Collaborated with marketing and partnering clinicians to identify clinical opportunities, gather customer feedback, validate prototype functionality, and troubleshoot product concerns. Designed and managed internal and external clinical trials and validation tests of systems and software. Worked with quality, privacy, regulatory, and IT personnel to ensure research and product solutions and methods were in full compliance of both internal and external standards and regulations. Generated numerous intellectual property applications.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Designed and validated automated image enhancement, registration, and segmentation algorithms that provide improved visualization and quantification of mitral valve anatomy from four-dimensional (4D) echocardiography. This included algorithms for reconstructing high temporal resolution 4D ultrasound from standard acquisitions, real-time image-based rigid registration of ultrasound volumes, temporal distortion correction in 4D ultrasound sequences, valve state prediction, and 4D mitral valve annulus and leaflet segmentation and tracking.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Collaborated with clinicians, industry partners, and researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, Philips Healthcare, and Harvard University to address long term research goals and immediate clinical needs in the areas of ultrasound image processing and segmentation for use in advanced diagnostics and surgical planning. Assisted clinicians with ultrasound acquisitions during clinical pre-operative studies, clinical surgical procedures, and during animal lab studies to improve acquisition protocols. Conducted clinical studies to assess accuracy and relevance of automated image processing and segmentation algorithms.

Raynham, Ma, Us

Managed project teams and design history files from design phase to production for the release of several products. Co-designed, modeled, and drafted a system of instrumentation for use in meniscus repair, as well as modeled and drafted various other prostheses and surgical instrumentation. Studied knee anatomical landmarks for use in computer-aided surgery, and researched knee biomechanics and simulation devices.

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences (Medical Image Analysis)

B.S., Mechanical Engineering