San Francisco Bay Area
• Proven record of developing concepts to commercial products • Design & execute experiments, analyze data to test hypotheses & drive product development. • Distill and communicate results in written reports, oral presentations (more than 10 conference presentations), and scientific publications (over 6 peer-reviewed papers), and innovate in medical devices (5 patents awarded). • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in academia and industry. • Team player, adaptable to many roles due to the wide range of research experience & strong motivation. • Generate big data analytic insight reports and process real-time statistics. Technical leader with 15 years of experience in medical ultrasound. Ten years of medical device start-up R&D industry experience combined with sensor and multimedia technology products and over five years in the biomedical r&d experience in applied research. I have developed new diagnostic and therapeutic products for the treatment of coronary and peripheral arterial disease (including heart valves) using innovative cardiovascular catheters – lead the early product feasibility, cadaveric experience, and testing that lead to strategic collaborations with key cardiologists. Designed prototypes of electrical systems and optimized designs of multiple catheter components from VoC. Key experience with regulatory submissions (FDA, BSI, PMDA) and IP/Tech transfer. Pre-clinical experience of prototypes to develop products. Performed MOA, identified new product opportunities. My strong research and development experience and skillset comes from my Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Washington, specifically at the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound (CIMU) (Applied Physics Lab), where I developed industrial and medical ultrasound acoustics technology, including instruments, techniques, ideas, and products that have value to our society. Thesis: Characterizing ultrasound pressure fields, microbubbles & their interaction.My Ph.D. co-advisors were Dr. Thomas J. Matula (main advisor) and Dr. Lawrence Crum.
Shockwave Medical
•Lead ultrasound image quality, signal processing, algorithms, and development of next-gen transducers. •Designed a new imaging transducer with a 40% improvement in image quality from the current solution. •Responsible for TX /RX frontend, beamforming, backend processing, clinical optimization, and metrology.
- Biometric sensing technologies - Staff systems engineer for Fingerprint sensor for mobile device authentication - - Design verification/validation, characterization, and testing for sensor systems. - Validate experimental results using multiphysics (acoustic/piezoelectric/electrical) modeling. - Conducted critical data analysis and critical DOE's for design selection.
Develop new products for the treatment of peripheral arterial and coronary arterial disease including aortic heart valves using an innovative, transfemoral shockwave catheter –early product feasibility, cadaveric experience and testing that lead to strategic collaborations with key cardiologists. •Lead engineer on next-generation product designs cardiovascular catheters. • Optimize designs of multiple catheter components via acoustic characterization from user feedback. • Ultrasound subject matter expert for regulatory submissions (FDA, BSI, PMDA) and IP/Tech transfer. •Performe extensive cadaveric testing of prototypes to develop products. •Support sales force and clinical training, presentation and publications in both the US and EU. •Analyze the market and competition and identify new product opportunities.
Therapeutic applications of ultrasound targeted to vascular disease and calcification. Design, Validation, Characterization and optimization of current and new systems.
Special projects in data science.