Experience

Rockley Photonics

• United Kingdom
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Biomedical R&D Engineer

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  - Designed test methods for verifying system level requirements and performed testing to verify functionality of 90% of prototypes - Compiled and consolidated engineering verification test data to review prototype design and quality - Advised quality teams on the development of a Standard Operating Procedures for meeting design controls of early clinical study prototypes, enabling testing of early prototype designs for algorithm data collection - Spearheaded development of a calibration algorithm that allowed the prototype to collect accurate temperature measurements - Developed signal processing algorithms (MATLAB & Python) for analyzing the signal-to-noise ratio of optical systems under varying temperature and power conditions



Medtronic

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Engineer

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  - Led cross-functional collaborations between R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical to prepare new glucose sensor designs for testing feasibility clinical studies - Facilitated Design Reviews and created Research Development Plan and Report documents to capture the design control strategy and execution for new glucose sensor designs in early feasibility - Oversaw study enrollment and data collection for over 800 subjects in 1.5 years in 2 Medtronic Sponsored feasibility clinical studies - Managed an R&D Feasibility Study support team to coordinate subject enrollment across 14 Diabetes Clinical Center sites at an enrollment throughput of 100 subjects/month - Troubleshoot issues during study enrollment to facilitate successful insertions at the clinics and recover lost data from failed data downloads - Developed a data processing workflow and tools (Microsoft Excel, MATLAB) to reduce data collection turnaround time from 2-4 weeks, to 1-5 days, and hand-off clean data for analysis - Developed database of glucose sensor performance diagnostic data to improve identifying failure modes for new glucose sensor designs at a faster rate - Performed analytic review of study data to measure site performance and subject compliance to study protocol, and led conversations with Clinical team on areas of improvement for our clinical sites



Neuromodulation Labratory - University of Michigan

• Ann Arbor, MI

• Graduate Student Research Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

  - Developed electrostatic simulations of the electric fields generated by Spinal Cord Stimulation (COMSOL) and analyze their effects on neural activity in the spinal cord (NEURON+Python) - Managed supercomputer cluster allocation (SDSC Comet) to run computer simulations of electrophysiological activity in neurons (NEURON+Python, Linux OS) - Analyzed simulated signal recordings to determine that spine anatomy and electrode location affect the amplitude and shape of evoked compound action potentials - Assisted in developing and troubleshooting experimental procedures for two clinical study protocols investigating neurostimulation therapies for chronic pain - Conducted Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) on 14 patients undergoing neurostimulation therapy for pain to identify changes in QST profile pre- and post-therapy - Led stimulation programming sessions on 10 patients undergoing neurostimulation therapy to collect stimulation thresholds and paresthesia maps for novel stimulation patterns



Biomedical Engineering Design course - University of Michigan

• Ann Arbor, MI

• Graduate Student Instructor

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

  - Managed two teams to develop a functional alpha prototype medical device, from planning through completion - Analyzed design requirements and specifications to quickly provide technical guidance and address challenges that might arise in the design process - Resolved team conflict after facing fabrication challenges and advised development of alternative design - Reviewed and graded 69 engineering notebooks, 12 Design History Files, 12 Design Review presentations, and 2 Design Reports, in 6 days



Neuropathology Laboratory - University of California, San Diego

• La Jolla, CA

• Undergraduate Student Research Assistant

  • Mar 2015 - May 2017

  - Developed an animal model (mouse) for studying diabetic neuropathic pain induced by periodic insulin treatment (insulin neuritis) to systematically investigate potential drug treatments - Maintained records of routine inspections of weight and health quality of animal subjects (mice) - Characterized changes in nerve conduction, structural nerve density in peripheral skin and cornea, and withdrawal thresholds to painful stimuli in diabetic neuropathic pain models in mice - Developed an animal model (mouse) for studying diabetic neuropathic pain induced by periodic insulin treatment (insulin neuritis) to systematically investigate potential drug treatments - Maintained records of routine inspections of weight and health quality of animal subjects (mice) - Characterized changes in nerve conduction, structural nerve density in peripheral skin and cornea, and withdrawal thresholds to painful stimuli in diabetic neuropathic pain models in mice



Integrated Microsystems Laboratory - University of Michigan

• Ann Arbor, MI

• Summer Research Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  - Assisted in evaluating designs for control circuits to operate the output of a microelectromechanical system (optoelectrode) - Developed initial design of a graphical user interface (LabVIEW) to control the light intensity, frequency, and pulse duration, of two laser diodes on an optoelectrode - Assisted in evaluating designs for control circuits to operate the output of a microelectromechanical system (optoelectrode) - Developed initial design of a graphical user interface (LabVIEW) to control the light intensity, frequency, and pulse duration, of two laser diodes on an optoelectrode



University of California, San Diego

• La Jolla, CA

• Bioengineering Senior Design Project

  • Sep 2015 - May 2016

  - Developed a computer simulation (COMSOL) of an implantable, cell-based, insulin producing device to be used for the treatment of Type 1 diabetic patients - Characterized insulin producing device as a 2-dimensional finite element model of a bedsheet of insulin producing cells and investigated the mass transfer properties of oxygen at homeostatic levels - Developed a computer simulation (COMSOL) of an implantable, cell-based, insulin producing device to be used for the treatment of Type 1 diabetic patients - Characterized insulin producing device as a 2-dimensional finite element model of a bedsheet of insulin producing cells and investigated the mass transfer properties of oxygen at homeostatic levels



Cartilage Tissue Engineering Lab - University of California, San Diego

• La Jolla, CA

• Undergraduate Student Research Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - Apr 2015

  - Extracted bovine bone and cartilage disk samples from bovine knee tissue and drilled annuli onto disk samples - Extracted synovial fluid samples from blood donations from osteoarthritis patients in an aseptic environment - Measured Glycosaminoglycan concentrations extracted from bovine cartilage wear samples through immunohistochemistry - Extracted bovine bone and cartilage disk samples from bovine knee tissue and drilled annuli onto disk samples - Extracted synovial fluid samples from blood donations from osteoarthritis patients in an aseptic environment - Measured Glycosaminoglycan concentrations extracted from bovine cartilage wear samples through immunohistochemistry