Medical Device Manager

REEMA ABICHANDANI

**** ****** ******, ***********, ************, PA 19104 E-mail: *****@******.*** I Mobile: 215-***-****

Objective: To work as an effective team member of a Design Quality Engineering Group and assist to attain product quality

milestones. To develop efficient and complaint quality systems.

Masters Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, attained knowledge on FDA approval and quality standards

through coursework like Medical Device Development and Medical Instrumentation. Developed excellent defect tracking and

testing skills following validation and verification procedures. Established the potential to approac h and solve problems

independently. Microsoft Office expert user. Generally known as person with strong work ethic and tenacity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH ASSISTANT January 2013-present

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Philad elphia, PA

Worked in the Pharmacology Department. Project Aim: To target GCC (Guanylyl Cyclase C) for subcellular Immunotoxin Delivery

in Cancer. Team of 15 PhD candidates.

Purified and stained the antibodies extracted from hybridoma. Skilled on Western Blot, ELISA and some knowledge on

qt-PCR.

Concluded that milk worked as better blocking buffer than BSA (bovine serum albumin). MS -7 had better affinity than

MS-20 for human tissue.

October –December 2012

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

DREXEL UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA

Worked in the Medical Instrumentation Department under a PhD can didate to detect the antibody concentration on a cell.

Researched papers and critiqued them to find new ways and improve the existing methods to determine the concentration

of different antibodies on a cell.

Ramen Spectroscopy was found to be one of the methods for antibody concentration detection. The different methods that

could be used were Sandwich method, direct method and indirect method. Using Microarray in collaboration with the

sandwich method was thought to be the best to detect the concentratio n.

SUMMER INTERNSHIP May-July 2010

GRANT MEDICAL FOUNDATION, RUBY HALL CLINIC Pune, India

It is Pune’s first Nationally Accredited Hospital. The hospital is also affiliated with University of Seychelles and American Institute

of Medicine.

Worked as an Assistant in the Radiology Department, Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Unit.

Helped the seniors to maintain the Quality Assurance & Quality Control of the machines in the Hospital. Tested the

working of the machines in different departments according to the set standards.

October 2011 – August 2012

ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT. LTD. Mumbai, India.

(Testing Department)

The tagline for Accenture has been “High Performance Delivered”. It is a multinational Company dealing with Consulting,

Outsourcing and Technology.

Tested the Software Lodestar which would help in Quotation Management, Meter Data Management and Customer Care

& Billing. Worked on HP Quality Centre to raise defects and test the written scripts basis.

Improved the efficiency of the testing department by running maximum 3 scripts per day. One script would raise at least 3

defects.

Presented weekly meetings related to the progress of the team to the Delivery Unit manager. Submitted a daily defect

report to the Assistant Manager regarding the number of defects raised.

REEMA ABICHANDANI E-mail: *****@******.*** Mobile: 215-***-****

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

MASTERS – BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Expected, June, 2014

DREXEL UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA

3.63 GPA, Received Merit: Dean’s Fellowship.

Focus: Mechanobiology, Medical Sciences, Biosensors, Medical Device Development, Medical Instrumentation.

Medical Instrumentation I project: To design an ECG system and record the ECG.

Medical Device Development Project: Wrote the 510(K) and followed the FDA approval process for “Electronic Blood Pressure

Wrist Watch”.

PROCTOR May 2013-Present

ENGLISH LEARNING CENTER (DREXEL UNIVERSITY) Philadelphia, PA

The venue for International students to take the IELTS exam.

Assisted the students to find the respective classrooms and supervised the exam.

BACHELOR’S – BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING May-2011

THADOMAL SHAHANI ENGINEERING COLLEGE Mumbai, India

Focus: Biomedical Instrumentation, Robotics, Microcontrollers and Microprocessor s, Digital Signal Processing, Human Anatomy

and Physiology

Mini project: To interface 8051 micro-controller with LED and lit them in a particular specified sequence.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

1. Senior Design Project: The analog signal generated by the potentiometers attached to the user’s hand was converted to a digital

signal and transmitted. The receiver on the other micro-controller would generate the Pulse Width Modulation Signal to operate the

servo-motors attached to the robot which would mimic the hand movements.

We received a grant of Rs. 50,000 from the University of Mumbai.

Publication

Bhowmick M, Abichandani R; The Prototype Model of Robotic Arm using Telemetry for Surgery, ICWET (International

Conference & Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology) 2012 in International Journal of Computer Applications; BT, Paper

ID: 182. Digital Library URI: http://www.ijcaonline.org/proceedings/icwet/number5/5342 -1033.

2. Abichandani R, Vaswani A, Motwani M; Poster: Use of nanotechnology for the cure of Cancer. Aim: Nanoparticles to carry

drug to enter the tumor and kill cancer cells.

Abichandani R, Ravindran A; Presenter: Procedure for Ultrasound Doppler machine to employees of Patni Computer System Ltd.

Workshop to learn about the human interface.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Lodestar: Tested the software Lodestar in Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.

MS office: Proficient with MS word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Micro-processors & Micro-controllers: Used microcontroller Atmega 16L and 8085.

Software Languages: C++ and JAVA

PERSONAL AFFILIATION

Hospitality Head; Biomedical Technical Fest; Thadomal Shahani En gineering College. Assist guests and students to the

respective locations and help build a social and ambient environment in the event.

Co-ordinator; Rubix Technical Fest; Thadomal Shahani Engineering College. Co -ordinate schedule for events and

supervise volunteers in-charge .

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