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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Worked on software for an in-vivo, intraoperative handheld fluorescent imaging device in a Phase III Clinical Trial.• Developed key software features for a handheld fluorescent camera using Android AOSP. • Developed a clinician-facing Tkinter application to format and rename images and videos according to clinical nomenclature. • Explored opportunities for AI and computer vision to enhance clinician image interpretation using margin visualization.• Lead developer and administrator on a clinician-facing electronic case report form (eCRF) for use during study-related breast cancer surgeries. • Completed software documentation that conforms to the quality management system (QMS) as specified by ISO 13485 for medical devices. • Provided technical support to on-site clinical personnel before, during, and after breast cancer surgeries.

Toronto, Canada Area

Clinical Engineering (MHSc) student co-supervised by Dr. Ofer Levi and Dr. Alex Mihailidis.• Designed and assembled a multi-camera system for remote monitoring of vital signs (heart rate, respiratory rate) based on light intensity and depth imaging.• Refined computer vision and signal processing algorithms to optimize signal quality and compensate for subject motion.• Evaluated vital sign accuracy in human participants and achieved clinical-level accuracy when compared to a gold standard bedside monitor.• Developed a human ethics research protocol and received ethics approval from the University.• Submitted Canadian and US patent applications for the remote monitoring system.

Toronto, Canada Area

Internship with the Radiation Medicine Program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.• Performed image registration between CT and MR images for over 200 patient datasets.• Developed Python scripts for automatic registration, contouring, and resampling of CT/MR paired image sets in RayStation.• Defined long-term project goals based on communication with radiation physicists at the hospital.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Research assistant and developer at the Vision & Motor Performance Lab in the School of Optometry and Vision Science, supervised by Dr. Kristine Dalton.• Designed and developed a 3-D Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) test using virtual reality (VR) and Unity engine.• Developed an interface and additional features for a Dynamic Visual Acuity (DVA) test using Visual C#.• Created and managed repositories on the aforementioned projects within the lab network drive. • Presented a research poster on the VR project at the Canadian Optometry Schools Research Conference in Dec 2017 at the University of Waterloo.Co-op Performance Rating: Outstanding

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Developer in the Health Data Science Lab within the Applied Health Sciences faculty, supervised by Dr. Joon Lee.• Developed and evaluated Android software for communication with wearable health-monitoring devices as part of a graduate-level research study.• Interacted with elderly participants of the research study by explaining technical details in an easily comprehensible manner.• Managed the installation of Apache projects such as Hadoop, Spark, and Hive on lab servers for distributed processing and research analysis. • Installed and gathered test data from the MIMIC Critical Care Database on lab servers.Co-op Performance Rating: Outstanding

Toronto, Canada Area

Developer for the Cardiovascular MRI group under direction of Dr. Graham Wright in the Schulich Heart Program.• Designed and developed an automated workflow for the retrieval, processing, and clinician review of cardiac MRI scanner images.• Created and utilized Python scripts to interact with DICOM platforms and existing MATLAB programs. • Worked on the initialization of a server-based medical image database and web interface.• Conducted a formal end-of-term presentation and live demonstration of the functional workflow to the Cardiovascular MRI group.Co-op Performance Rating: Excellent

Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Software developer for Maxxian CounterStryx, a set-top box and cable modem management software for telecommunications. • Developed a new feature for tracking and isolating live instances of illegal cable modem cloning and movement across different Cable Modem Transfer Services (CMTS). • Modularized and consolidated Python and SQL files into utility files for broader usage. • Developed bulk searching capabilities for set-top boxes and cable modems by serial and/or MAC addresses.• Managed tables and queries in PostgreSQL databases using command-line bash in Ubuntu Linux.• Worked on a wide variety of debugging and development tickets. Co-op Performance Rating: Outstanding

Toronto, Canada Area

Trading assistant for Index and Single Stock Trading of Global Equity Derivatives. • Developed new VBA Excel macro for monitoring potential wash trades with live market data.• Generated reports on market and trade data for trader use. • Wrote, analyzed, and improved code for trading applications using C#, SQL, and VBA for Microsoft Excel.Co-op Performance Rating: Very Good

Master Of Health Science (Mhsc), Clinical Engineering

• Supervised by Dr. Ofer Levi and Dr. Alex Mihailidis. • Thesis committee: Drs. Joe Cafazzo, John Granton, and Craig Simmons. • Relevant.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Electrical Engineering

Exchange Student

Five (5) month exchange term in Gothenburg, Sweden.

High School

Activities and Societies: DECA Member, Arts Council Executive, Titan Times Newspaper Committee, Creative Writing Club.Laptop Program.