Experience

VISIE Inc., Formerly Advanced Scanners

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Austin, Texas, United States



Swansea University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Apr 2019 - Sep 2019

  Swansea, United Kingdom •Built and calibrated a custom Brillouin scattering spectroscopy microscope to observe material properties using non-invasive optics •Utilized MATLAB to differentiate platelet activation from images taken with an ImageStream flow cytometer



Houston Methodist

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Fellow

  • 2016 - 2018

  Houston, Texas Area •Published user-friendly data analysis software to separate and identify Raman and fluorescence peaks from a single overlapping dataset, allowing the collection of more detailed diagnostic information in a single test •Utilized optical tissue clearing to characterize and identify tertiary lymphoid structures inside tumor masses to classify the immune system response •Developed and performed adhesion kinetic flow chamber studies around tumor microvascular interactions with drug delivery… Show more •Published user-friendly data analysis software to separate and identify Raman and fluorescence peaks from a single overlapping dataset, allowing the collection of more detailed diagnostic information in a single test •Utilized optical tissue clearing to characterize and identify tertiary lymphoid structures inside tumor masses to classify the immune system response •Developed and performed adhesion kinetic flow chamber studies around tumor microvascular interactions with drug delivery microparticles •Analyzed all data with self-written MATLAB scripts Show less



Vytronus, Inc.

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Engineering Intern

  • May 2014 - Sep 2015

  Sunnyvale, CA •Wrote verification and validation procedure documentation for the FDA quality system regulations (QSR) and ISO 13485 •Designed and implemented test protocols for the ultrasound transducer controller to ensure the safety of the robotic device •Ported C++ software from Linux to QNX to improve code performance and efficiency



Emdeon, now Change Healthcare

• Project Management Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  San Mateo, CA •Led a team through a Human-Centered Design course focused on redesigning a comprehensive yet straightforward method of presenting a patient’s medical bills while also encouraging them to pay •Prototyped the workflow and delivery method of a new bill payment method •Collaborated with the intern class to develop a company-wide policy for mediating disgruntled customers



Texas A&M University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Nov 2013 - Apr 2015

  Bryan/College Station, Texas Area •Built computer-aided design models and fabricated a device (i.e. shock tube) to replicate the physiological repercussions of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI) in animal models •Designed an Arduino Due microcontroller system, based off an Atmel ARM Cortex-M3, which handles shock tube operation, such as tank set-pressure, pressure monitoring, and membrane puncturing •Assisted with fluid dynamic simulations of the animal restraint device



PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Austin, Texas Area •Produced an application that brought monitoring services and processes of the PayPal Global Operations division into a convenient and mobile interface •Professionally-trained in seven new programming languages to build the entire front- and back-end experience



Steiner Stars Swim Team

• Assistant Coach

  • 2010 - 2012

  Instructed and motivated children age 5 – 17 to advance in their swimming speed and technique.