Experience

QMENTA

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Medical Imaging & Research Team Lead

  • Oct 2022 - 1 year 3 months

  Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain As an Engineering Manager in a healthcare SaaS business, I lead a specialised team for medical imaging solutions in clinical trials. My role covers team leadership, project management, product ownership and oversight of 5 professionals. We handle diverse projects, from smaller academic studies to multi-year clinical trials with complex technical requirements and project management. My responsibilities encompass a multifaceted Engineering Manager role with project and product management… Show more As an Engineering Manager in a healthcare SaaS business, I lead a specialised team for medical imaging solutions in clinical trials. My role covers team leadership, project management, product ownership and oversight of 5 professionals. We handle diverse projects, from smaller academic studies to multi-year clinical trials with complex technical requirements and project management. My responsibilities encompass a multifaceted Engineering Manager role with project and product management, with personnel oversight of a team of engineers and customer success.

• Project Manager

  • Nov 2020 - Oct 2022

  Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain QMENTA is an advanced medical image storage, processing and visualisation company focused on brain-data analysis, specifically using MRI and related clinical data. QMENTA provides state­-of-­the-­art medical image processing algorithms in a seamless way in order to accelerate the development of new therapies for neurological diseases via a scalable and collaborative cloud platform.



Medlia Health

• Spain
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • May 2019 - Nov 2020

  Barcelona Area, Spain Medlia Health is provide doctors and small clinics with the tools to bring their practise to the cloud and offer their patients telemedicine services, tracking and more. http://medliahealth.com/



EIT Health

• Germany
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Independent Expert Evaluator

  • Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

  Barcelona Area, Spain Expert in the panel of evaluators for EIT Health's accelerator programs (Headstart, Innostars).



Capital Cell UK

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Investment Manager

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

  Barcelona Area, Spain Capital Cell is Europe's first crowdfunding platform specialised in life sciences & healthcare. https://capitalcell.es https://bioexpertnetwork.com



MedCity

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Performance & Projects Manager

  • Oct 2015 - Oct 2017

  London, United Kingdom MedCity was launched in April 2014 to promote and grow the world-leading life sciences cluster of England’s Greater South East. MedCity promotes life sciences investment, entrepreneurship and industry in the region. I ran the 'Angels in MedCity' programme, screening and training startups and investors.



Pint of Science UK

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• London Chapter co-manager

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  London Pint of Science brings the best academic scientists in the UK and world wide to local pubs to talk about their latest research to the public in a relaxed and entertaining environment. As a London chapter co-manager I oversaw three universities and co-ordinated the London arm of the whole festival. responsibilities: - recruiting of teams - Team supervision and guidance to find venues and speakers according to festival guidelines - Acquiring funding from public engagement… Show more Pint of Science brings the best academic scientists in the UK and world wide to local pubs to talk about their latest research to the public in a relaxed and entertaining environment. As a London chapter co-manager I oversaw three universities and co-ordinated the London arm of the whole festival. responsibilities: - recruiting of teams - Team supervision and guidance to find venues and speakers according to festival guidelines - Acquiring funding from public engagement funds - Communication and meetings with team members and the whole Pint of Science team - Marketing & PR of events - event upload & administration http://pintofscience.co.uk/teams/kcl/

• Pint of Science Co-ordinator - King's College London

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2015

  London Pint of Science brings the best academic scientists in the UK and world wide to local pubs to talk about their latest research to the public in a relaxed and entertaining environment. As a university co-ordinator for King's College I had the role to oversee 5 teams (Atoms to Galaxies, Our Body, Mind, Our planet, Tech Me Out) to build the festival regarding the vision and guidelines of Pint of Science. We sold 1091 tickets for just the 15 KCL events, the largest section of the… Show more Pint of Science brings the best academic scientists in the UK and world wide to local pubs to talk about their latest research to the public in a relaxed and entertaining environment. As a university co-ordinator for King's College I had the role to oversee 5 teams (Atoms to Galaxies, Our Body, Mind, Our planet, Tech Me Out) to build the festival regarding the vision and guidelines of Pint of Science. We sold 1091 tickets for just the 15 KCL events, the largest section of the festival. responsibilities: - recruiting of teams - Supervising and guiding to find venues and speakers - Acquiring funding from public engagement funds - Communication and meetings with KCL team members, speakers and with the whole Pint of Science team - Marketing & PR of events - event upload & administration http://pintofscience.co.uk/teams/kcl/



King's College London

• United Kingdom
• Research Services

• PhD Researcher

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2015

  London, United Kingdom Research: Intestinal patho-physiology Focus on: sugar transport, sugar/sweet taste sensing Methods: mammalian cell culture, ex vivo tissue analysis, quantitative PCR, Western blotting, sugar uptake assay, immuno-imaging Responsibilities: - project planning - experiment design and realisation - presentation of results in written and oral form - lab management: ordering & restocking chemicals & consumables, realising rotas - supervision and training of project and… Show more Research: Intestinal patho-physiology Focus on: sugar transport, sugar/sweet taste sensing Methods: mammalian cell culture, ex vivo tissue analysis, quantitative PCR, Western blotting, sugar uptake assay, immuno-imaging Responsibilities: - project planning - experiment design and realisation - presentation of results in written and oral form - lab management: ordering & restocking chemicals & consumables, realising rotas - supervision and training of project and summer students - demonstration and supervision in nutrition practicals (blood iron metabolism, blood glucose balance, urine mineral analysis, calorimetry) Research profile: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/patrick-obrien%2834bbe1ef-d08f-4211-88a5-1583fb062168%29.html Show less



Google Science Fair

• Judge

  • Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  London, United Kingdom Judging science projects entered by 12-18yr old scientists for the worldwide Google Science Fair competition. - Evaluate biology, chemistry and engineering projects entered according to Google guidelines - Mark and write reports on entries https://www.googlesciencefair.com/



Brigham and Women's Hospital

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• MSc Researcher - Plutzky Lab

  • Mar 2011 - Aug 2011

  Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Conducting research on Vitamin A and its involvement in obesity and metabolism Responsibilities: experiment conduction and data analysis, presentation of data in oral and written form Methods: in vivo studies on a knockout model, dissection, ex vivo transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analysis, gene therapy, mammalian cell culture Publication from this work: "Retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 1 regulates a thermogenic program in white adipose tissue." Kiefer FW et… Show more Conducting research on Vitamin A and its involvement in obesity and metabolism Responsibilities: experiment conduction and data analysis, presentation of data in oral and written form Methods: in vivo studies on a knockout model, dissection, ex vivo transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic analysis, gene therapy, mammalian cell culture Publication from this work: "Retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 1 regulates a thermogenic program in white adipose tissue." Kiefer FW et al. 2012 Nat Med. 2012 Jun;18(6):918-25. doi: 10.1038/nm.2757. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22561685 Plutzky Lab: http://researchfaculty.brighamandwomens.org/BRIProfile.aspx?id=3806 Show less



National University of Ireland, Maynooth

• BSc Researcher - Ohlendieck Lab

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2009

  Maynooth, ireland Conducting proteomic research on myotonia Responsibilities: experiment conduction and data analysis, presentation of data in oral and written form Methods: 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis, LC-MS, Maldi-TOF, Western blotting https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kay-ohlendieck



RTK Logistik

• Commission assistant

  • 2000 - 2006

  Commissioning service in Germany's largest travel co-operation