Software Product Development

SY CHANDRA

**** ******* *****, **** *****, IL ***47

847-***-**** **********@*****.***

Profile A recent graduate from a top university with 3+ years of biomedical engineering design (device and software), consulting, and marketing experience. A strong background in physiology, biomechanics, and coding/modeling/simulation coupled with 1 year of graduate-level biomedical product and business development training and ~1 year of professional market strategy work in the biotech industry. Hard worker, strong speaker, team player, and someone who can confidently take on projects unrelated to degree and past work. Intelligent, eager to learn, and easy to teach.

Highlights

• Biomedical device design

• Computer programming, modeling, and

simulation

• Biomedical product development

• Biomedical business development

• Biotechnology and medical diagnostics

• Financial modeling

• Market strategy

• Statistical data analysis

• Pitch/investor presentations

• Data presentation

Education Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis, MO Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering May 2017

Core Strengths

• Client relations & interpersonal skills

• Public speaking & business presentation

skills

• Clear communicator, both written and oral

• Ability to explain complex topics/concepts

using simple language

• Professional, technical writing & editing

• Creating and giving pitch presentations

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, &

creative skills

• Ability to take on and complete projects

outside direct areas of expertise

• Producing visually-aesthetic work

• Working in teams / collaborative

environments

• Social networking

• Fluent in English, highly experienced in

Spanish and Hindi

Technical Skills Programming languages

• MATLAB & Simulink

• Excel VBA

Software

• Microsoft Office

• JMP statistical software

• TreeAge Pro health economics modeling

software

• LabChart & PowerLab data

acquisition/analysis software

• AutoCAD, Inventor drawing and design

software

• sciNote electronic lab notebook software

Operating systems

• Windows

• Mac OS

• Ubuntu

Other

• Biology & chemistry laboratory procedures

and techniques

• Arduino microcontroller hardware and

software

• 3-D printing

Experience Biotech Consultant, Computer Programmer May 2012 August 2012 EmpiriQA, LLC. [Long Grove, IL] April 2016 present Designed, built, and published the company website (http://www.empiriqa.com) Designed and built the company’s PowerPoint presentation slide template Client: Life Technologies Corporation [Foster City, CA]

• Lead programmer for project that utilized MATLAB code to log, display, analyze, characterize, and mathematically differentiate between failure modes based on amplification curve raw data gathered from Life Technologies’ latest, high-efficiency method of quantitative PCR

• Personally wrote and implemented 13k+ lines of MATLAB code for the project.

• Prepared weekly progress presentations given to Life Technologies representatives Client: Banyan Biomarkers, Inc. [San Diego, CA]

• Performed statistical analysis on traumatic brain injury (TBI) multivariate data generated during clinical sample testing for threshold optimization of a noninvasive assay utilized to rule out the need for a brain CT scan for a patient showing symptoms of a concussion Client: Abbott Laboratories [Chicago, IL]

• Built a logistic regression model in JMP to predict which reagent lots would yield high reactive rates for the HIV blood screening assay used in blood banks

• Wrote and submitted technical instructions for implementation and scientific report for the logistic regression model

Client: Thermo Fisher – Pfizer/Novartis

• Developed (using Excel VBA code) the blinding/randomization protocol of a Thermo Fisher clinical trial for a companion diagnostic next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay utilized to select patients that would respond to a Pfizer/Novartis cancer immunotherapeutic Client: Innovenn [Madison, WI]

• Created a value proposition canvas for Innovenn’s AIM software (monitors ADPKD patients and identifies patients rapidly progressing to ESRD)

• Built components of a financial model to monetize the value of the AIM software if used in conjunction with the drug Tolvaptan

Biomedical Engineer, Client Relations, Computer Programmer August 2013 December 2013 Washington University, Department of BME [St. Louis, MO] Client: Lickenbrock Technologies, LLC. [St. Louis, MO]

• Programmer for a project that utilized MATLAB code to design a novel software that could analyze an input OCT retinal scan and automatically locate regions indicative of retinal disease

(e.g., age-related macular degeneration (AMD))

• Head of client relations for the project, which included organizing and leading all face-to-face and electronic communication between my design team, the client, and any third parties (e.g., hospitals, universities, etc.) that the client was collaborating with

• Prepared and presented weekly oral and written progress reports for Lickenbrock Technologies representatives

Market Strategy Intern, Pipeline / New Products May 2015 January 2016 Exact Sciences Corporation [Madison, WI]

• Built a health economics model using TreeAge Pro software to determine the market opportunity and internal product development strategy for an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) assay pipeline product

• Built a revenue projection model for the IVD pipeline product

• Wrote, directed, and produced documentary-style thought leadership videos based on KOL interviews for internal distribution and external marketing pitches to potential collaborators and investors

• Helped plan and coordinate a scientific advisory board (SAB) event held during the 2015 IASLC conference in Denver, CO

• Traveled across the U.S. to meet with and interview KOLs and potential collaborators

• Worked on an iPad app meant for future distribution and marketing to KOLs and potential investors

• Created an interactive Google Maps dashboard to display clinical trial sites across the globe to target potential sites from which biological samples could be acquired as part of our company’s R&D strategy

• Helped prepare slide deck presented by company officers directly to investors at Exact Sciences’ Investor & Analyst Day (June 2015) conference

• Wrote white papers for internal and external distribution Biomedical Engineer August 2016 December 2016

Washington University, Department of BME [St. Louis, MO] Client: Simon Tang (Ph.D.), Washington University, Department of Orthopaedics [St. Louis, MO]

• Designed and prototyped a microCT-compatible, mouse intervertebral disc compression device to study the load-bearing properties of a mammalian spine

• Documented all team meetings, correspondence, design decisions, resources, etc. in an electronic lab notebook (ELN)

• Prepared weekly written progress reports for the client

• Wrote and submitted formal laboratory reports documenting the design process in its entirety

• Prepared and gave formal presentations throughout the design process

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