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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, United States

Lead a culturally diverse global test team, consisting of members from US, Canada, UK, and India.Drive monthly global team meetings to align team on goals, projects, process improvements, and achievements.Provide management of global team activities to ensure consistent output of team deliverables and quick resolution of issues and blockers.Responsible for resource allocation and budget planning on an annual or as-needed basis.Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure correct coordination of project deliverables and implementation of test strategies for new product introductions and sustaining efforts.Mentor and advise team members to fulfill various roles within R&D, especially test leadership.Define and manage test automation roadmap and strategy.Consolidate tools and processes used cross-functionally to ensure consistency and efficiency across all global sites.

San Diego, California, United States

Lead a culturally diverse global test team, consisting of members from US, Netherlands, Israel, and India.Drive weekly global team meetings to discuss work progress, team challenges, retrospectives, and process improvements.Provide daily management of global team activities to ensure consistent output of team deliverables and quick resolution of issues and blockers.Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure correct coordination of project deliverables and implementation of test strategies for new product introductions.Develop master test plans that describe key verification activities across all functional areas within a project and critical integration points between projects.Develop and maintain key testing metrics to monitor project progress, identify risks, release readiness, and release quality.

San Diego, California, United States

Define and ensure correct implementation of test strategies for entire project lifecycle, especially for the integration of software and hardware components.Monitor effectiveness of testing cycles, and bring improvements through insights gained via analysis of test results and team feedback.Develop test plans and execution strategies.Collaborate with System Designers in defining and tracing new System and Software Requirements.Establish new guidelines for test case designs and test approaches for the System Verification team.Ensure alignment of content and deliverables across all functional teams (software, hardware, quality, regulatory, marketing).Provide technical know-how, documentation, and training to test team and cross-functional teams.

San Diego, California, United States

Lead System-Level Software Testing (Functional, Performance, Regression, and Exploratory) on Medical Image Processing Workstations for Coronary Catheterizations, in accordance with ISO 13485 and 21 CFR 820.Lead test automation activities to examine software application workflow and stability by writing Python automation scripts, providing proof-of-concept of new test automation methodologies, and discussing test automation framework strategies, development, and deployment.Work with cross-functional teams (software, quality assurance, marketing, and project management) in a SAFe Agile environment to design and execute System-Level Software Verification Testing for fully integrated systems.Analyze Software Requirements Specifications, Software Architecture Design, and Software Design Specifications to create test strategies and test cases for medical device products under a diverse collection of operational scenarios.Facilitate Software Review Committee meetings to discuss and resolve recently opened or pending change requests and bug defects.Train and mentor junior staff on medical image processing systems, testing methodologies & strategies, quality documentation, and test automation software

San Diego, California, United States

Executed System-Level Formal Verification Testing on Medical Image Processing Systems that utilize both Angiogram and Intravascular Ultrasound Images for Coronary Catheterizations.Worked with cross-functional teams (software, hardware, quality assurance, and project management) to design and execute System-Level Functional, Regression, Exploratory, and Performance tests for fully integrated systems, according to established verification plans in Agile test environmentPlayed project lead role in working with project team to develop testing schedule, testing plan, and formal testing report related to product development life cycle of medical devices.Analyzed system and software requirements to create test cases and test procedures for medical device products under a diverse collection of operational scenarios.Performed data analysis and results’ interpretation, as well as report defects and assist developers in finding the cause of the defects.Participated in development of automated test scripts for all software builds, using HP Unified Functional Testing.

Irvine, Ca

Worked on the catheter design project for creating a catheter sheath that is compatible with OCT and intravascular ultrasound (US) imaging components.Collaborated with catheter manufacturing companies to determine appropriate parameters and materials for the OCT-IVUS catheter sheath components.

Greater San Diego Area

Defined preliminary product design requirements and prototype specifications for a medical device.Designed, developed, and prototyped a medical device that is compatible with commercial sheath products for percutaneous vascular procedures.

Irvine, Ca

Worked on the long-range optical coherence tomography (OCT) project for examining upper airway of obstructive sleep apnea patients.Developed a MATLAB algorithm that can lock onto a region of interest on an OCT image, calculate physical cross-sectional area from pixel number, and determine the total volume of patient’s airway.

Ithaca, New York Area

Performed analysis in sleep phenomenology, anatomy, and physiology.Analyzed electrographic data to investigate the effects of implicit and explicit learning conditions on the participants’ sleep electroencephalographs.Assisted in the deployment of a new wireless recording system for overnight sleep sessions.

Silver Spring, Md

Participated in Health Information Exchange (HIE) project to meet regulatory Meaningful Use requirements and enable interoperability between hospital and its affiliated physician practices.Coordinated efforts to help various physician practices set up for Physician Office Drop Box that delivers secure data exchange technology and patient electronic health records (EHR).Shadowed two executive medical directors in the ER and Radiology department.

Greater Detroit Area

Performed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) processing for examining different brain structures.Participated in development of new measurement method using diffusion entropy and conventional Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) to evaluate white matter properties in brain.Assisted in using MRI to investigate effects of sildenafil treatment on embolic stroke in aged rats.Shadowed brain surgeon, gastroenterologist, and anesthesiologist.

East Lansing, Mi

Completed research project on optimal capture effect of magnetic polyaniline on E. coli O157:H7 bacteria for electrochemical biosensor design using magnetic polyaniline as nano-transducers for foodborne pathogen detection.Received Semifinalist Award in 2007-08 Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology.

Master Of Engineering (M.Eng.), Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Cornell Sleep Lab, Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Slope Media

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