Project Quality Control

Saanika Vishwanathan Pillai

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Email: abh4mm@r.postjobfree.com

Evanston IL-60202

Ph: 408-***-****

Education

Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering

(09/2009 - 12/2010)

University: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

CGPA: 3.255

GRE: 1420 (Quantitative - 800/800, Vocabulary - 620/800)

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

(09/2003 - 05/2007)

University: University of Pune (Maharashtra Institute of Technology), India

Grade: 64.93% (First Class)

Course Project Experience

Medical Innovation in Emergency Medicine

(09/2009 - Current)

Farley Center for Entrepreneurship & Development, Northwestern University

- Collaborated with Kellogg Business School, Northwestern Law School and

Feinberg Medical School students to begin a start-up that develops

solutions to provide orientation information to patients waiting in an

emergency room.

- Performed design and testing of prototypes, intellectual property

research, competitor research, market research, literature research,

patent application and business plan creation.

- Continuing with the project post course duration and currently one of

the 4 partners

Professional Work Experience

Wipro Technologies Ltd., Pune, India.

(09/2007 -08/2009)

Project Engineer in Financial Service Domain

- Collaborated with business analysts and clients to document functional

requirements of the application and develop the web application

- Led a team that analysed and developed a particularly complex piece of

functionality

- Increased productivity by 30% by identifying and developing common

libraries

- Reviewed and analysed code to reduce page rendering time by 15% - 40%

and potential defects by 20%

- Documented test cases for quality control and undertook in house unit

testing and SIT

- Involved in the project from the design phase to the production phase

Internship Experience

Biodynamics Laboratory at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

(06/2010 - Current)

Summer Intern

- Offered internship on the basis of class presentation on need for

affordable post-stroke gait rehabilitation devices

- Developed electromechanically powered orthosis for rehabilitation of

elbow post traumatic brain injury

- Reviewed Literature for possible patent violations and to construct a

proposal

- Tested device on patients for their feedback and suggestions

Force Motors, Pune India

(06/2006 -04/2007)

Summer Intern

- Designed Die and Punch as per company standards for Inner Fuel Panel

of Trax vehicle

- Documented manufacturing and testing procedures of the company

Skills & Interests

Computer/Software: MS Office, SPSS, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, MATLAB, Visual

Basic, Labview, Rational Business Developer Tool, EGL Technology (Base

lined with Java, J2EE, JSF), DB2, C, SQL, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML

Interests: Avid Reader, Trained Bharatanatyam Dancer, Amateur fabric

painter and embroiderer

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