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Danvers, Massachusetts, United States

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Jan ’23 – current: Product management and development of talent sourcing module of larger workforce planning product. Responsibilities include determining user needs from multiple stakeholders, understanding underlying data and how to manipulate it to get relevant insights, developing and coding algorithms to meet the needs, and mentoring junior engineers to incorporate the code into the ETL pipeline. Simultaneously working closely with client teams to determine best modeling techniques to use across all modules of the product to customize results to the way their company operates. • Jul ’21 – Jul ’22: Sourced and understood data available internally and externally and fit the data to unmet needs amongst case teams and clients through development of algorithms, databases, and data products. Designed and developed internal tool to track stages of contract negotiations and understand ROI of current contracts. Designed, developed, and coded tool to transform personally identifiable datasets into anonymized data that could be benchmarked across industries.

Boston, Ma

• Functioned as subject matter expert in medtech and internal consultant to client facing case teams. Topic expert for operations function.• Supported hundreds of client-facing case teams across all medtech industry segments. Conducted analysis, market modeling, and market research. Worked with multiple cases doing large dataset patient claims analysis (SQL, Python).• Developed, built, managed, and maintained three industry databases and analytic tools to facilitate the sale of case work to new and existing clients within the medtech operations and regulatory space. Managed yearly maintenance and updates with support of team of two in India. Conducted periodic user training, and facilitate tool access to case teams.• Acted as knowledge lead on $1M investment project to benchmark and analyze network and footprint optimization at current medtech clients, resulting in a BCG publication.• Developed internal data tools to facilitate faster workflow.• Managed external market research vendor database, including assessing new vendors globally and working with them to understand their value to our organization.

Boston, Ma

• Staffed full time as a data scientist on a case for a healthcare payer client looking to develop internal data and analytics capabilities.• Determined features within patient claims and performed exploratory data analysis.• Worked with front-end UI developer to create an internal platform for the client to easily parse and view patient claims analyses to determine prevalent trends. Created and populated back end data structure. Client was successfully enabled to visualize data trends previously hidden and act on them.

Needham, Ma

• Guardian Bite Block Redesign. Worked with quality and end customers on root cause complaint analysis of original design, provided feedback to R&D on specific design changes, completed limited market release with one week turn around, conducted post market surveillance.• Holistic Product Line Assessment. Analyzed sales and usage data of entire line of consumable products including competitive analysis and pricing. Worked with operations to quantify cost savings of obsoleting specific product lines across all sales channels. Successfully negotiated products to obsolete between partner companies, direct channel sales, R&D, Operations, and Regulatory groups.• Market research. Presented business plans for potential product line additions including O2 mask with integrated capnography, CPAP mask with integrated capnography, capnography consumable for pediatric and adult sleep lab markets in response to customer and market demands. Company was acquired and downsized before project realization.• Managed mature product lines, including life cycle status, pricing, feedback, and issues presented by end customers. Planned and managed product launches, including human factors testing and limited market releases. Managed exchange of information between R&D personnel, sales team, and end customers. Conducted market research to understand user needs, which were used to inform features and benefits of new product proposals. Increase in adoption and retention by end users over two year tenure.

Waltham, Ma

• Upstream product manager for ASCEND-RA, a peripheral nerve stimulator for regional anesthesia. Contacted and observed anesthesiologists to understand market size, trends, and product demands. Acted as liaison between engineering, quality and marketing to understand engineering capabilities and match them to user needs by specifying product features and requirements. Collaborated with engineering to develop user interface. • Downstream product manager for ADVANCE, a nerve conduction device for peripheral nerve damage diagnostics. Trained sales force on techniques for selling to the specialist Pain Management market. Led engineering in understanding new needed product capabilities, including online reporting functions, and their effects on user interaction. Worked on lead generation through email, direct mail, and advertising campaigns. Wrote user manuals for device and online portal.

Acton, Ma

• Skin Integrity, surgical pressure ulcer prevention products. Developed and launched a sales and marketing campaign to improve sales of the current skin integrity product line through education on pressure ulcers. Directed market research efforts, understanding the regulatory and reimbursement incentives for customers, developing an innovative demo kit, printed collateral, and an educational website as tools for sales representatives. Trained the sales force during the national sales meeting and assisted sales representatives in the field. Presented to clinicians as the corporate technical expert. Led engineering efforts to design and implement improvements to current products while working to develop new products with parent company, Hill-Rom, by adapting their technologies to the surgical environment.• C-Flex, head positioning device for spinal surgery. Ran project from conceptualization through launch including post market surveillance. Led regular cross-functional meetings with team members from every department in the company. Performed market research through surgical observations. Presented business plan to upper management concerning the risks and potential gains of the proposed project. Led engineering team in development of technology and designing and building of prototypes. Clinically tested prototypes. Developed collateral with marketing, including innovative sales tools. Performed sales training at national sales meeting and provided sales support through trade shows and field calls. Completed project in 18 months, on schedule, with ROI achieved in the first year. First of two inventors on patent (20080078031). Third place in Hill-Rom annual Patent Innovation Award.

Acton, Ma

Spine System, platform for prone positioning in spine surgery Brought product from prototype to final product release. Led engineering efforts on part design for machinability, assembly design for manufacturability, drafting, tolerance stacks, specifying and managing external vendors, creating assembly instructions, quality testing and CE marking, and releasing documents through ECO process. Assisted sales in clinical assessments, sales training, and product launch. Independently wrote and directed a training DVD for full suite of products currently used by domestic sales force and international distributors. Developed many of the standards and processes the company currently uses for new product development through this project. Completed project in 9 months, 3 months ahead of schedule. Won first place in the first annual Hill-Rom President’s Innovation Award.

Masters, Data Analytics And Policy

Executive Certificate In Technology, Operations, And Value Chain Management, Operations

Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi

Emt-B

Certified as Massachusetts Emergency Medical Technician, Basic