Hardware engineer for medical devices. Open to Quality roles.
Resume:
NAIR CHAITANYA MURALIDHARAN
*** ***** ******, ******, **-27713
**************@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/nairchaitanya
Accomplishments
●Worked in various R&D projects (start to finish) for the development of medical devices (Class III) for various biomedical applications.
●Selected as one of the finalists at EMEDIC 2017- Medical Device Challenge in Taipei, Taiwan.
●Presented projects at various technical conferences (IEEE), collaborator meetings and competitions in Asia (Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea).
●Displayed strong leadership, self-motivation, communication, multi-tasking and team building skills towards accomplishing project objectives by identifying and proposing new technologies to meet growing demands.
Professional Summary
An experienced lean six sigma certified R&D engineer in wearable sensors, IOT and bio devices with an immense interest in process improvement and developing high quality, low-cost portable medical devices to deliver a promising and affordable health care.
Skills
Lean Six Sigma- Process development, Biomedical instrumentation, SolidWorks, Quality engineering, SPC, GD&T, MATLAB, C, Project Management, LabView, Verification and validation, Arduino, Minitab, MS Office, Circuit analysis & circuit debug, tooling and machining, Human Physiology, EE fundamentals, Embedded Systems engineering, Robotics, FDA, ISO 13485 &CFR 820, cGMP, GDP, New Product introduction (NPI), manufacturing.
Professional Experience
1.Research Engineer, 10/2015 to 10/2017
National University of Singapore & Emosis Pvt Lte – Singapore
Research area: Wearable electronics (Sensors) and hardware systems design & prototyping for medical devices, Advance Robotics Centre, NUS
Research Projects [ Fully-funded by Singapore Sports Institute]:
Developed a wearable EEG-based massage headband for anxiety monitoring and its therapy in air-rifle shooters and gamers for performance enhancement.
Research duties:
●Victoriously managed and completed SG$1,50,000 budget project by Singapore Sports Institute.
●Highly experienced working with disposable medical products, physiological measurement devices, motors, RGB LEDS, switches, DC-DC converter, amplifiers, drivers, sensor integration (EEG, IMU, EMG), filters, diodes, Bluetooth, USB, RS-232, silicone rubber, microcontrollers (Arduino and Raspberry Pi), 3D printing, Li ion batteries, robotic actuators and FETs, BJTs, Vernier calipers, power supplies, pumps, cameras, DAQs, pressure gauge, electronic test and measurement systems- multimeters, oscilloscopes and microscopes.
●Performed EEG signal processing and graphical analyses from the software code created in EEGLab and MATLAB and achieved desirable results.
●Completed sensor calibration, physiological data acquisition from brain, data logging and statistical analysis (ANOVA, boxplots, hypothesis testing, t-tests using SigmaPlot, correlation analysis, ORIGINLAB) as part of concluding the research.
●Networked and received future project mergers and funding from potential collaborators in Asia and USA.
●Wrote statistical and test reports, IRB reports, SOPs, process flowcharts, risk & safety assessments files, Design history files and publications that are presentable to cross functional teams and requestors.
●Created and executed multiple project plans, schedules and engineering activities with minimal supervision. Fulfilled timelines, procurement/purchase of materials and billing duties from contract manufacturers and vendors.
●Demonstrated ability to present progress, results, project plans and conclusions in verbal and written form during project team meetings.
●Mentored, led and advised team members, colleagues and students in hardware engineering, data collection tools, data correction criteria and component material selection during NPI builds.
●Collaborated with engineers, programmers, investigators, sponsors and athletes during the development, design and testing stages.
●Fixed product-based technical risks, design issues (hardware and software) and data problems from observation and experimentation on human users according to the SOP created (DOE).
●Raised customer satisfaction rate of up to 95%.
●Meticulously documented analyses, summaries, experimental observations, areas of improvements, lab notes and other project requirements pitched in by the collaborators for achieving best results.
●Successfully designed PCB boards (low-voltage motor driver and control circuits using potentiostat design for controlling motor vibration) for the prototype which also involved hardware troubleshooting through failure mode root cause analyses.
●Executed 5S successfully as a lab safety officer. Regularly performed maintenance of equipments, systems and apparatus in the lab and created safety protocols for best equipment usage practices. Gave soldering lessons to students.
2.Research intern (full-time through Youth Research Programme) 07/2014 to 07/2015
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology – Singapore
Research project:
Designed a PCR-based optical detection system for detecting drug resistant bacterial and viral infections from biological samples under test on a novel microfluidic chip developed. (masters dissertation).
Research duties:
●Automated the optical device by developing an image processing algorithm using NI LabView and Vision Assistant for infection detection and diagnostics based on the principle of fluorescence.
●Designed an LED driver circuitry (Potentiostat design and simulation on P-Spice) on a PCB according to the device specifications.
●Performed hardware assembling and calibrated the CMOS image sensor.
●Mentored an undergraduate project student in hardware engineering and image processing.
●Successfully presented the results to a team of distinguished scientists as a part of thesis defense.
3.Catalog Associate, 02/2013 to 07/2013
Amazon India Development Center – India
Responsibilities:
●Handled day-to-day volumes of the assigned tasks and ensured the given SLAs were met per quality standards.
●Interacted and coordinated with vendors/buyers to accurately reflect the Amazon catalog for price, product details and other product-related information.
●Identified and corrected errors in process by performing CAPA.
●Made Kaizens, Kanbans and other process improvement methodologies to improve work efficiency.
●Maintained daily trackers accurately.
●Flagged escalation on time to the manager or lead when there was a possible default on SLAs or quality.
Education
Master of Science: Integrated Circuit Design Engineering, 2016
Nanyang Technological University- Singapore
Integrated Circuit Design Engineering Electronic Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering: Biomedical Engineering, 2012
Anna University - India
Biomedical Engineering First class, Honors
Certifications
ISAAC Six Sigma Green belt (trained); Data Science, Deep Learning &Machine Learning with Python; SAP for absolute beginners; Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt; Lean production; IT Essentials by Cisco
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