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Project Management Quality Engineer

Location:
Centreville, VA, 20120
Posted:
June 02, 2025

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RYAN DESOUSA (PhD, MBA)

Centreville, VA, USA, 1-323-***-**** ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY SKILLS

Leadership/supervisory experience, project management/ execution, communication, business skills.

Innovation: technical, business model; Ideation, NPD, Desing Thinking – non/regulated industries.

Invention Disclosures, project/investor/SBIR pitches, Patent Applications, Patents, IP search etc.

Research – analysis, report writing, documentation, presentations.

Efficiency: Statistics, DS/ML/AI, DOE, Design for Manufacturing, Lean-6Sigma, Commercialization

Teams/Internal/external collaborations, sci/tech evaluations, executing NDAs, SOWs, contracts etc.

MS-Office, Minitab/SPSS, Python(proficient), Knime, SQL(interm.), MS-Project, R, Tableau(interm).

CONTINUING EDUCATION (more Continuing Education details on LinkedIn)

Certified Quality Engineer Certificate (CQE) – Udemy (Apr 2020).

Lean 6Sigma Cert. Green Belt (U. Georgia, 2015), Black Belt (Lean/DMAIC)–Villanova (Jan 2019).

HBS-CoRe(Accounting/Econ./Analytics); Finance; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Strategy (2016-17).

Project Management Certificate - Emory University (2016).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

July 2022 – current: Self Employed, Student, FreeLancer, Entrepreneur. (VA, USA/Global)

2020 - 2023 MBA. Penn State- Business Sustainability Strategy GPA: 4.00 / 4.00

Economics and Life Cycle Cost Analysis. UC-SD (June 2023)

MIT-Data Science/Machine Learning Certificate–Making Data Driven Decisions (08-11, 2023); 95%

Personal: Care-giver to parents during/post Covid. Mumbai, India; Jan2023-Mar2025

Self-employed. Exploring commercialization opportunities of own novel technical ideas. 2023- current.

Self-employed Sole Proprietor: Data/Business/Science services - planned. VA, USA; Apr 2025.

Looking for new/other opportunities. USA; current.

DuPont: Wilmington, DE. USA.

February 2021 – July 2022: Principal Investigator.

Led team investigating Tedlar® for bifacial solar cells. Elucidated long missing root cause, to reconcile observations associated with Tedlar® technical performance issues.

Worked with global marketing, technical, manufacturing, and finance teams/data to understand VOC, competitive position and develop formulation/manufacturing cost models (technoeconomics) targeting increased price competitiveness.

Scaled process/products, meeting customer needs, retained accounts worth ~30% of annual revenues.

Senseonics Incorporated: Germantown, MD. USA. (Mid-Stage Start-Up). (ISO13485, 21CFR820)

October 2018 – Mar 2020: Principal Scientist.

Development of glucose sensor, in a Start-Up environment (ISO13485).

Led project and developed novel technical solutions, improving sensor optical stability by more than 50%; led process to pilot scale, targeted at in-vivo pilot-clinical trials. IDE/PMA support. Patented.

Led team in the development and execution of new FDA recommended processes, to characterize sensor interferents on CGM sensor accuracy.

Led sub-team, investigating effects of critical parameters on 2019 sensor algorithm, and determined key parameters that enabled release of more accurate software version.

Used statistics/DS/ML to analyze sensor datasets, evaluated effects of internal, external and process parameters on sensor performance, leading to improved processes.

Consulted on process improvement project teams, targeting improved sensor manufacturing yields.

Managed inventory and county recertification submissions.

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Alcon - Division of Novartis: Duluth, GA. USA. (ISO13485, 21CFR820)

October 2012 – January 2018: Senior Research Scientist.

Worked with marketing and clinical team to understand clinical, market/VOC and business needs for DACP contact lens brand.

Successfully led, executed and delivered project that delivered novel clinical/market/ IP relevant features to DACP® contact lens brand ($750MM, 2016).

Successfully led, executed and delivered on diverse technical and data analysis projects, some that led to on-market products.

Alcon - Division of Novartis: Fort Worth, TX. USA. (ISO13485, 21CFR820)

March 2010 – October 2012: Senior Scientist II.

Collaborated with marketing and clinical teams/data on product features and clinical outcomes.

Led NPD/tech team taking novel biocompatible technologies from ideas to MPDS market, and used in commercial $80MM product (2013) OptiFree® PureMoist and later in Air Optix Hydraglyde®.

Oversaw related internal and external contracts and project scaling.

Alcon: Fort Worth, TX. USA. (ISO13485, 21CFR820)

July 2006 – March2010: Senior Scientist I.

Led complex studies investigating synergies between our technologies and market complements.

Developed novel molecular design towards improved disinfection, lowered toxicity, efficient analysis.

Oversaw related internal and external contract projects.

Mitsubishi Chemicals Research and Innovation Center Inc. (Internal-StartUp): Goleta, CA., USA.

July 2004 – June 2006: Postdoctoral Research Scientist/Engineer.

Successfully delivered project to improve product technical performance by more than 60%, under most challenging conditions compared to market leader.

Collaborated on internal and DOE research projects run between the MC group and UC-Santa Barbara.

Asian Paints India Limited: Mumbai, India.

March1998 - June 1999: Junior Chemist

Design and evaluation of new products. 1 new product launched.

FORMAL EDUCATION

1999 - 2004 PhD, Chemistry. University of Southern California, Los Angeles; GPA: 3.95 / 4.00

Advisors: Prof. G. K .Surya Prakash and Prof. G. A. Olah

1995 - 1997 Master of Science, Chemistry. University of Mumbai, India; : First Class

1992 - 1995 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry. University of Bombay, India; : First Class

HONORS AND AWARDS

2023 Gold Honors (highest program award) - Penn State MBA

2002, 2003 Department of Chemistry Pre-doctoral Scholarship- USC

2001 Harold Moulton Graduate Fellowship for Excellence in Research.-USC

2000 USC – College Graduate Merit Award.

U.S. IMMIGRATION STATUS: U.S. Citizen.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION: American Chemical Society.

POSTERS, PATENTS, PUBLICATIONS: Total 30. List available upon request and on LinkedIn.



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