Zion Tilley Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Development of a new AI-powered platform to revolutionize the development of SaMD by automating the burdensome yet necessary workloads associated with developing FDA regulated medical device software.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Salem, New Hampshire

• Lead Android developer responsible for designing, architecting and developing Bluetooth and cloud connected diabetes management applications with a team of 2 other developers.Responsibilities include:
• All stages of software development lifecycle including concept, design, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, bug fixes, releasing updates, and responding directly to customer feedback via Google Play.
• Database design and implementation.
• Implementation and testing of connection to RESTful backend server for user data backup and sync.
• Localization support for multiple languages and support for either mmol/L or mg/dL units based on country.
• Optimizing network, database, and UI intensive operations using a multi-threaded design.

Manchester, New Hampshire

• Responsible for prototyping, developing, testing and writing documentation Android applications which connected to and controlled medical devices via bluetooth.Accomplishments include:
• Modified a Motoactv (2011) smart watch to run our Android application by replacing the OS with a custom build of Android build to demo for the CEO (Dean Kamen) that we could run our Android phone application on a.
• Worked on an Android application for tablets which connected to and controlled hemodialysis machines, specifically, helping to remove memory leaks and race conditions in the application running on Android Honeycomb.
• Developed 90% of the user interface consisting of over 65 screens using several activities mostly fragments on Android 4.1 for an Android application connected to an insulin pump via BLE.
• Worked closely with firmware and mechanical team during development to provide custom builds of the same BLE connected Android application mentioned above.
• Wrote and maintained software requirements, software modules and integration tests in IBM Rationale DOORS software

Order management and order entry specialist/customer service Representative

New Hampshire

• Contracted as Sole developer and architect responsible for all phases of SDLC from initial design to release and bug fixes and customer feedback for Android application called "Mix My Booze".
• The application allowed the users to search a database of over 12,000 drinks with the option to search by 1 or more ingredient, name or number of calories.
• Given a raw Excel spreadsheet of the drink names, the steps to make the drinks, drink ingredients, and how many calories were in each drink, I wrote a small tool in Java to automate the conversion of the CSV file into.
• Developed and designed the database to be shipped with the application in 2 parts because of memory limitations of some devices available at the time to read in the database from a single file.
• Implemented Google Maps API for a feature which allows the user to find local bars near their location using Google location services.

Ran CNC machines, Installed commercial Store front frames and windows/doors, Delivered materials to job sites.

Operated a million dollar Glass Tempering furnace and responsible for maintenance and monitoring. Programmed glass dimensions into computer for Automated glass cutting CNC table. Various IT support tasks-network and software issues. Some customer service.

Master, Information Technology

Bachelor, Information Technology; Network Administration