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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Develops and recommends financial, and operation goals• Leads, mentors, and collaborates with team members to achieve R&D objectives • Manages the company's extensive IP portfolio• Continues to innovate and develop tourniquet products used in surgery to improve safety and quality, and beyond surgery to enhance and accelerate recovery of soldiers, athletes and others from injuries through personalized blood flow restriction rehabilitation. • Co-inventor in 4 issued design patents, 2 issued utility patents, 2 design patent applications, and 9 utility patent applications

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Research and development of tourniquet systems; including tourniquet instruments, cuffs and accessories for emergency, surgical and rehabilitation applications• Designed, developed, debugged and evaluated new tourniquet technologies. Skills and programs used include C++, LabVIEW, PCB design, circuit analysis, CorelDRAW, Crank Storyboard, MCUXpresso, Photoshop• Developed software, hardware, and usability specification requirements, verification and validation procedures, and risk management documents• Conducted verification and validation procedures for new products and technologies• Managed the company's extensive patent portfolio (over 240 patents and patent applications)• Filed 14 patent applications as co-inventor (Issued: 1 utility & 4 design; Pending: 7 utility & 2 design). Contribution included the invention; the development of claims, background, drawings, and specification; and responding to office actions• Conducted clinical studies to evaluate new patented personalized tourniquet technology in adult and pediatric patients at Vancouver General Hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, BC Children's Hospital and Cambie Surgery Centre• Conducted usability studies on clinical users for new tourniquet systems at the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Conference and at Cambie Surgical Centre.• Developed and managed the company's educational website tourniquets.org to provide clinical education on tourniquets and to promote the safe and effective use of tourniquets.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Conducted research on five species of corneas using a novel optical imaging system utilizing a combination of two technologies: Multiphoton Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography• Established and maintained valuable working connections with clinical doctors, professors, technicians, and other students in gaining insight and support for the project• Developed detailed plans for the project, and obtained approvals from the UBC biosafety, human ethics, and animal ethics boards• Improved and debugged the system as limitations and problems appeared• Used MATLAB, Excel and ImageJ to process and to analyze the data• Regularly gave tailored presentations to inform and to update the project to doctors, engineers, students and funding agencies• Mentored and trained new students to use the imaging system• Successfully submitted two papers as the primary author and three papers as the co-author

Vancouver

• Worked with a UBC masters student on his thesis in investigating the biomechanics of the sit-to-stand process for injured or elderly subjects• Wrote the LabVIEW program controlling the sit-to-stand apparatus• Ran tests on the subjects, and analyzed the data collected by the force plate (x-y-z forces and moments) and the Xsens accelerometers (x-y-z accelerations and row/pitch/yaw angles)

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Successfully improved the reliability, efficiency and effectiveness of the Automated Slide Scanning and Image Acquisition system using Fluorescent In-situ Hybridization• Debugged and verified the system through tests on multi-stained tissues and cells under fluorescence and bright field microscopy• Wrote a comprehensive report on the project, including flow charts, descriptions of all major functions in the program, results on various tests and investigations, as well as future recommendations

Wurzburg, Germany

• Worked with the engineering supervisor to design and to create automated machines that would increase the reliability of the lasers produced by the company• Soldered various circuits boards and debugged them using EAGLE, DMM, oscilloscope and HyperTerminal• Wrote the C++ program for the microcontrollers• Used MYSQL to access local and online databases for information on each laser

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Worked in a team to manage a diesel mechanics shop for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (roughly 600 scheduled locomotives serviced each year)• Developed short and long term plans for addressing each locomotive under our control (around 20 locomotives each day)

Master Of Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering - Electrical Engineering Department

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Engineering Physics - Electrical Engineering Specialization