Robert Kulik Email & Phone Number

Germantown, WI, US

Thousand Oaks, US

• I've been proud and excited to be a part of LungLife AI's mission to turn the tables on lung cancer by detecting cancer at an earlier stage when more treatment options are available.In a nutshell, my role can be.
• project planning,
• tracking and measuring execution,
• coordinating the team's responses to challenges that arise, and
• keeping the product development true to the quality system.More than that, as part of a small, dynamic organization, I jumped in to lead efforts critical to the business' evolving needs, such as:
• developing a staff performance review process,

Chicago, US

­- Overall responsibility for product and program success for a portfolio of Ambulatory ECG recorders and software.- Create and ensure effective and efficient communication across business functions.- Motivate and energize the team.- Measure product quality and generate plans to drive continuous improvement.- Address regulatory and supply chain issues to.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• Lead a cross-functional team delivering NPIs and sustaining the installed base of a family of patient monitoring products including a bedside monitor, telemetry device, and central station.
• Project/program leadership: from planning through market launch, including communication, coordination, and organization.
• Systems engineering: from product definition through V&V, including requirements management, medical device risk analysis, and compliance deliverables.
• Delivered new products, major new feature adds to existing medical devices, new intended uses, and sustaining engineering projects.
• Established new practices for Risk Management Files.
• Guided and influenced new practices for product documentation.

Cincinnati, OH, US

• Drove execution of engineering development projects with responsibility for project budget, schedule, risk management, and earned value tracking and reporting
• Oversaw and coordinated the activities of project technical leads, individual contributors, and ancillary functional groups to drive project execution rigor
• Negotiated with other project leaders, resource owners, and outside vendors to maximize the use of limited resource and maintain momentum on the business’ total project portfolio

Chicago, US

• Managed a global portfolio of vital signs monitors and accessory devices
• Delivered a complete marketing specification for a new, premium vital signs monitor, introducing connectivity and advanced workflow features to reinvigorate the brand
• Led a team that developed a concept and prototype for a connectivity add-on device allowing legacy vital signs monitors to communicate with hospital information systems
• Delivered marketing specifications for two new accessories adding new customer value for legacy lines of vital signs monitors
• Championed the needs of customers and business stakeholders on program teams to safeguard product quality and optimize program design and risk management
• Designed a product portfolio roadmap balancing near-term feature enhancements with a long-term vision of platforming and systems interoperability

Chicago, US

• Delivered on NPI programs enhancing a global portfolio of vital signs monitors through leadership of cross-functional teams, program scheduling and budgeting, driving day-to-day execution, and reporting to business.
• Maintained continuity of the vitals monitor business by prioritizing and leading numerous maintenance engineering projects delivering solutions to supply chain issues, component obsolescence, and compliance to evolving.
• Drove stewardship of installed base of products, including timely completion of engineering investigations, CAPA, and support of manufacturing, service and commercial teams
• Developed program plans including scheduling, budgeting, and program risk management
• Drove program operating mechanisms including core team meetings, leadership reviews, toll-gate reviews, and design reviews

Chicago, US

• Shaped future product concepts and portfolios by engaging a major market research study with an outside consultant, and through my own ad hoc research with customers
• Delivered a stable engineering design for an intelligent communication accessory by leading a design engineering team and owning the systems engineering function
• Drove the product risk management process ensuring adequate technical risk mitigations for patient and user safety, and compliance to global standards
• Accelerated product concept development by constructing quick, functional prototypes on my own initiative to provide stakeholders with operational demonstrations
• Constructed Design History Files, Device Master Records, and Risk Management Files
• Designed a site-level quality process for software configuration management

Boston, MA, US

• Redesigned and delivered a data acquisition and post-processing system for use in clinical blood pressure studies, replacing an older, difficult to maintain system
• Improved the efficiency of clinical studies by developing real-time features for static and dynamic calibration of fluid/sensor systems in the field with a user-friendly UI
• Shaped a new clinical blood pressure algorithm by delivering signal processing tools to evaluate the sensitivity of changes to algorithm parameters

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Delivered automated test systems used in the manufacture of vital signs monitors, meeting deadlines required for timely product launch
• Reduced unit test time by 66% by partnering with design engineers to re-scope and simplify manufacturing test requirements

• Designed and developed software implementing a new concept for a clinical audiometer diagnosing hearing function by elicitation and detection of otoacoustic emissions
• Reduced the cost of each audiometer by $2,000 by devising a technique for using standard PC sound cards as data acquisition devices within LabVIEW-based software applications

M.S.I.E., Engineering Management

M.A.Sc, Biomedical Engineering

B.Eng., Computer Systems Engineering