Project Manager Engineer

Technical Program/Project Manager with experience in medical devices and semiconductor industries. Demonstrated skills in managing a complex, multi-million dollar project, successfully managing project scope, stakeholders, risks and issues.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Program Management for a highly diverse, complex, $20 million, multi-year project

• Experience managing project schedules, scope and budget

• Experience distilling software requirements from customer input and stating them as Use Cases and Scenarios

• Superb communication and leadership skills

• Design of all aspects of a medical device in PMA environment, including ISO 13485 and GMP training

• Validation of software to high level of concern per FDA requirements

• Detailed knowledge of statistical reliability modeling for semiconductor devices, based on both transistor-level data and empirical data

• Thesis work on numerical modeling on novel devices with ultimate goal of making a prediction about device design

• Knowledge of diverse cultures and experience collaborating with foreign and domestic colleagues and clients

• UNIX, LINUX, and WINDOWS environments

• Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, JMP, APPLIX, XESSLITE, XMGRACE

• Extensive programming experience with FORTRAN and VBA, familiarity with MatLab, C and VB.NET

EXPERIENCE

Senior Applications Engineer/Program Manager

BAYER HEALTHCARE, Portland, OR January 2007-December 2010 January 2007-December 2010

• Program Manager for a $20 million Continuous Glucose Monitoring System Project. Managed schedule, scope, and budget

• Actively engaged with all stakeholders, from patients to health care providers to engineers in designing a superior product

• Took major part in creating the user experience, device user interface, and defined user interface requirements

• Key contributor in developing a Continuous Glucose Monitoring System from prototype to Pivotal clinical trials

• Trained and collaborated with colleagues and partners across four domestic and two foreign sites

• Designed and optimized novel data processing algorithms that ensured user safety and delivered superior user experience

• Performed clinical data analysis and interpretation

• Supported sensor development team by data analysis and route cause analysis

Quality and Reliability Engineer

INTEL, Hillsboro, OR November 2004-November 2006

• Wrote Use Cases and software requirements based on customer requests and business need

• Acted as customer liaison providing training and support, identifying business-driven needs while persuading and educating as required

• Drove the reliability assessment process, from experimental set up to data collection to, ultimately, determining set points and guard bands for Fmax (maximum frequency) degradation and Gate Oxide wear out mechanisms

• Validated reliability models against experimental data and ultimately implemented them in reliability assessment software

• Lead a cross-team effort in improving frequency measurement methodology; developed data collection plan, participated in data processing, delivered the bottom line to multiple teams/organizations (nomination for divisional award is pending)

• Developed and supported commercial-quality software for internal and external customers

• Designed and delivered multiple courses and trainings in 1-on-1 and classroom environment

• Established productive relationships with customers/clients in Malaysia, India, Israel, and the US

Senior Process Engineer

INTEL, Hillsboro, OR May 2003-October 2004

• Participated in the development of new, cutting edge manufacturing processes

• Supported five process layers while developing the process and responding to the upstream changes.

• Acted as a 24/7 first point of contact for the chemical layers and the supporting equipment

• Maintained a one-of-a-kind lithography tool, while running production and supporting multiple internal customers in their development process with emphasis on maximum tool up-time

• Designed and conducted multiple experiments aimed and solving development and tool problems

• Acted as a mentor to floor technicians

• Established and maintained productive relationships with members of various supporting teams (automation, chemical delivery, purchasing, etc.)

Research Assistant

CONDENSED MATTER GROUP, SUNY STONY BROOK 1996-2003

• Designed and improved software for Monte Carlo simulations of charge trasnport in tunnel-junction arrays

• Enabled calculations of current and spectral density of noise in circuits based on Single Electron Tunneling (SET) junctions

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2003

• Master of Arts in Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1998

• Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Brandeis University, 1996

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Tae Kwon Do, September 1992-present, third degree black belt. Founder, instructor, and president of the Stony Brook Tae Kwon Do club at SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 1998-Spring 2003; founder and instructor of Intel Tae Kwon Do club, April 2005-November 2006; Presently teaching pro bono at a health club

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