Experience

Aventusoft LLC

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

• Senior Director of Engineering and Clinical Studies

  • May 2023 - Present

  Boca Raton, Florida, United States



Trividia Health (formerly Nipro Diagnostics)

• Senior Director of Innovation

  • Apr 2015 - May 2023

  Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States * Focused on driving customer-relevant innovative product concepts into the development pipeline * Lead Innovation team of engineers to generate new product concepts * Develop sine wave electrical excitation and impedance measurement * Identify new technology and negotiate with vendors * Responsible for creating various new and improved medical devices * Chair Intellectual Property Committee * Identified white space to launch veterinary blood glucose meter * Continuous… Show more * Focused on driving customer-relevant innovative product concepts into the development pipeline * Lead Innovation team of engineers to generate new product concepts * Develop sine wave electrical excitation and impedance measurement * Identify new technology and negotiate with vendors * Responsible for creating various new and improved medical devices * Chair Intellectual Property Committee * Identified white space to launch veterinary blood glucose meter * Continuous improvements: cost, quality, efficiency, and workflow * Manage design control process creation and requirements system * Transformed the company mindset from traditional paper requirements to a requirements management system * Lead cross-functional development project with sister company * Manage outside industrial design firm Show less



Nipro Diagnostics (formerly Home Diagnostics)

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing

• Senior Director of Engineering

  • Dec 2011 - 2015

  Fort Lauderdale, FL * Manage the R&D of all electronic medical product designs * Report directly to the President/CEO * Completed custom ASIC design with Texas Instruments * Oversee Bluetooth medical device development and Android/iOS apps * Accountable for $6 million annual budget and 25 direct reports * Develop high volume production equipment to build medical devices



Nipro Diagnostics Inc

• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Dec 2005 - Jan 2011

  * Developed products through all stages: concept, prototypes, pilots, clinical studies, full production * Managed team of industrial designers, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and test engineers * Collaborated to design/develop new custom biosensors. * Architected firmware algorithms for electrochemical biosensors * Developed novel approach to insulin infusion controls that increased precision and accuracy * Directed embedded firmware and hardware for electrochemical… Show more * Developed products through all stages: concept, prototypes, pilots, clinical studies, full production * Managed team of industrial designers, mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and test engineers * Collaborated to design/develop new custom biosensors. * Architected firmware algorithms for electrochemical biosensors * Developed novel approach to insulin infusion controls that increased precision and accuracy * Directed embedded firmware and hardware for electrochemical excitation and measurement * Deeply involved in all aspects of FDA design control documentation, V&V, EMC/EMI/ESD and Safety testing * Managed concurrent projects with multi-million dollar budget * Designed for manufacture of high volume 2-3 million units/year * Chaired interdepartmental conceptualization and development meetings for New Product Development * Oversaw Taiwan manufacturing facility to perform design transfer, installation of production equipment, training and meet with vendors * Introduced Agile and spearheaded implementation of Scrum * Participated in many FDA and TUV audits. * Researched and specified device materials * Cost reduced a nine year old product, saving $1+ million annually Show less



Dactyl Technologies, LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Business Partner

  • Jan 1997 - Dec 2010

  No longer participating in day to day business or development activities * Co-own web development company specializing in small to mid size websites and e-commerce sites. * Met with prospective clients, drafted specifications, scheduled projects, wrote proposals and negotiated pricing. * Designed and developed web sites in HTML, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, LotusScript, Perl using MySql, SQL Server, CSS, Javscript, SSL, Shell scripts and other client-side and server-side tools.



Home Diagnostics, Inc.

• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Software Engineering, R&D

  • 2000 - 2005

  Trumbull, Connecticut, United States * Designed custom BGM SOC with Texas Instruments * Wrote embedded in C language for ASIC as well as other TI MSP430 micro * Coded production calibration software in VB6 and Microsoft SQL * Designed electrochemical TRUEtrack BGM in assembly on Hitachi micro * Architected software for characterizing TRUEtrack test strips

• Director

  • 2000 - 2001

• Senior Design Engineer / Program Manager

  • May 1996 - Dec 2000

  Lead development project of Prestige LX? blood glucose reflectometer, over 1 million units sold. * Developed all embedded firmware in 4-bit assembly on the 16K ROM NEC 7530X microprocessors. * Wrote Visual Basic Win 95/98 MS Access applications for production calibration equipment

• Electronic Development Engineer

  • Apr 1994 - May 1996

  Wrote assembly code for NEC µP for the Ultra+ infrared reflectometer blood glucose meter. * Designed and routed out wiring for a custom triplexed Liquid Crystal Display. * Develop software algorithms to characterize blood glucose chemical reactions. * Hand stuffed and debugged prototype Prestige? blood glucose meter as well as wrote assembly. * Wrote PC based C++ data acquisition system to collect real-time analog output of prototype devices. * Collected and analyzed spectral… Show more Wrote assembly code for NEC µP for the Ultra+ infrared reflectometer blood glucose meter. * Designed and routed out wiring for a custom triplexed Liquid Crystal Display. * Develop software algorithms to characterize blood glucose chemical reactions. * Hand stuffed and debugged prototype Prestige? blood glucose meter as well as wrote assembly. * Wrote PC based C++ data acquisition system to collect real-time analog output of prototype devices. * Collected and analyzed spectral data to select optimal LED wavelengths chemistry strip technology. * Wrote all A/D, EEPROM, serial communications, calibration and math routines in assembly for the Prestige, Supreme II and Select GT glucose meters. Created PC calibration application for BGM. * Tools: NEC 75x In-circuit Emulator, oscilloscope, Borland IDE, SMT hot air tools, spectrum analyzer



CEP Systems, Inc

• Systems Analyst

  • May 1992 - Apr 1994

  Advanced Certified Engineer for SCO Unix * Developed an Order Entry and POS system EDI integrated, using System Builder and Universe db. * Designed/maintained custom business applications in both Visual Basic and Advanced Revelation.



ABB Combustion Engineering

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 1991 - Aug 1992

  Co-operative Education through University of Hartford * Developed Contract/Proposal tracking system and Time Keeping system in OO C++ with Paradox.