Experience

MYOLYN

• United States
• Medical Device
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Jun 2013 - 10 years 7 months

  - Founded MYOLYN to transfer to market the technology I developed during my doctoral research. - Lead the lean development of a functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling system (MyoCycle) for people living with paralysis to use for in-home neurorehabilitation. - Prepared Class II medical device 510(k) application and achieved clearance in only 97 days. - Responsible for MYOLYN's quality and information systems, regulatory affairs, research, and device design and development.



University of Florida

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student

  • Aug 2011 - Dec 2015

  Worked as an NDSEG Fellow on human motor control in the Nonlinear Controls and Robotics group under Dr. Warren Dixon. My focus was on hybrid and cooperative control of functional electrical stimulation (FES) for FES-cycling and FES-enhanced robotic exoskeletons, and my dissertation was titled: "Control of Stationary Cycling Induced by Functional Electrical Stimulation: A Switched Systems Theory Approach."

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - Apr 2012

  Teaching assistant for the undergraduate courses in mechanical design and the linear control systems laboratory. Taught students about theoretical concepts and practical application during office and lab hours.



Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

• Research Services

• Research Intern

  • May 2010 - Aug 2012

  Pensacola, Florida Worked as a control systems engineer on the Mina robotic exoskeleton and the FastRunner, a planar fast running bipedal robot. Relevant experience includes control of multi-DOF systems, analysis of biomechanical and robotic multi-body kinematics and dynamics, and dynamic simulations in Java, along with some hardware development and testing.