Engineer Medical Device

Harshal Deshmukh

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Phone: 408-***-**** – Email: *********@*****.***

Objective

To find challenging work in medical device development field where I can utilize and broaden my knowledge about medical device development and testing.

Education

M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Specialization in Imaging/Infra red optics) 1999 - 2002

University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN GPA: 3.44

B.E. Biomedical Engineering 1994 - 1998

University of Bombay, India First Class

Permaculture Design Course, SF Permaculture Institute. Jun 2010

Work Experience

Validation and Technical Lead (consultant) May 2012 - Present

IGate Corp

Client: St Jude Medical.

Working on memory interface between firmware development and external instrument development. Working closely with software developers and systems engineers to define memory layout for the device.

In India due to personal reasons June 2011 – March 2012

Software Engineer II for the FW Verification and Validation Group April 2003 – May 2011

St. Jude Medical CRMD, Sunnyvale, CA

• More than 5 years of experience working as a verification test engineer: Knowledgeable in the different phases of testing, from requirements assessment, test plan and procedure development and reviews, code development and review, dry run and formal test completion, and the delivery of final reports that need to be submitted to Regulatory. Collaborated with engineers from other groups, such as Device Firmware Development and Requirements, Firmware Tools, and Clinical Engineering in developing tests according to requirements and in identifying and resolving device firmware issues. Knowledgeable in using DOORs, Clearquest, Clearcase, STT, UEP, and other in house tools.

• 3 years of experience working as an External Instrument Interface Engineer. Provide the interface between the external instrument “the field programmer” and the implanted Device “ICD”. Responsible for memory layout for the firmware code and defining the required memory structures used by the firmware and hardware teams. Also involved in the interface between systems engineers and firmware/hardware teams.

• Was project lead for the interface between the field programmer and implanted device for the MRI feature. Was involved in reviewing requirements, firmware interface specifications and creating data structures for firmware code. Worked with Clinical, Quality assurance, Tech support, Hardware and Software groups to make sure all teams were aligned with each other and exchanged technical information that all groups understood.

• Was responsible for creating a database for previously implanted legacy devices. Worked closely with the Tech support team so make sure we provided adequate support for previous devices.

• Past member of the verification and validation team: Responsible for testing main ICD features such as Capacitor Maintenance and Battery Management, Tachycardia Detection, Therapy Enable Disable, and Summary Diagnostics for Capacitor Maintenance.

• Member of the Epic II verification team: Developed tests and completed dry and formal tests for a number of features including Summary Diagnostics, Lifetime Diagnostics, Episodal Diagnostics, Rate Adaptive Algorithms, Arrhythmia Induction, Measured Data, EGM Storage and Retrieval, Patient Notifier, Tachycardia Detection and Diagnosis, Episodal Pacing, Noise Reversion, Negative AV/PV Hysteresis, and Turbo Reform.

• Member of the ROMA project: Worked extensively with the firmware and hardware teams to identify and characterize device issues. Completed dry and formal tests for various features to ensure the project met its deadlines.

Clinical Research Assistant September 2002 - April 2003

University of Tennessee, Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

• Conducted clinical trials of the Vein Contrast Enhancer at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center to evaluate new technology that would make it easier to access subcutaneous veins for IV access.

Research Assistant April 2002 - August 2002

Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida

• Worked on a software modeling program called “TracePro” that modeled the optical properties of tissue.

Graduate Research Assistant in Biomedical Engineering August 1999 - March 2002

University of Tennessee, HSC, Memphis, TN

• Worked on the design of a patented clinical prototype instrument that uses near infrared light to enhance the contrast of subcutaneous veins to make access to them easier.

• Wrote my thesis “Vein Contrast Enhancement Using Diffuse Near Infrared Light” with Dr. H. Zeman.

Undergraduate Intern Academic year 1997 - 1998

Siemens Medical Systems, India.

• Worked in the X- Ray and CT installation and maintenance department.

Papers

• H.D. Zeman, G. Lovhoiden, and H. Deshmukh: Optimization of Subcutaneous Vein Contrast Enhancement. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 391, pp 50-57, 2000.

• H.D. Zeman, G. Lovhoiden, and H. Deshmukh: Design of a clinical vein contrast-enhancing projector. Submitted to SPIE, December 2000

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