iOS/iPhone/iPad and Biomedical Software Developer

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Email: *******.*******@*****.***

http://about.me/stephen.furlani

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY…

* Biomedical Software Engineer and iOS App developer with experience in every aspect of product prototyping, planning, design, implementation, maintenance, quality management, and utilizing novel technology.

* Focus in critical problem solving, fast prototyping, thorough design, and lifetime product support.

* Ability to communicate technical problems and solutions to a wide range of audiences including medical professionals, scientific researchers, management, and customers.

* Working environments range from small business, to start-up departments, government contract work, academia, and self employment.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION…

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, ENGINEERING PROGRAM FOR PROFESSIONALS

Master of Science in Computer Science. Currently Enrolled, GPA: 4.00/4.00 Expected May, 14

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, DEP’T OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering. Summa cum Laude GPA: 3.72/4.00 May, 05

* Minor in Music Performance on the Baritone Saxophone

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE…

GLOBAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, INC. Aug 09 – Present

Greenbelt, MD

BIOMEDICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER

* Design, Architecture, and Construction of Medical Imaging Software on Mac OS X

--- Hyperwall solution (cluster/distributed graphics) with OpenGL

--- Plug-ins for the OsiriX medical image viewer

--- Lead software developer for the project, trained peers in technology and project.

--- Named co-Investigator on and wrote the Research Strategy for a NIH SBIR Phase 1 grant.

INDEPENDENT iOS APP and GAME DEVELOPER. Apr 10 – Present

Montgomery Village, MD

INDEPENDENT GAME DEVELOPER

* Publishes apps for the iOS platform, with three independently published applications so far in the App Store.

* Working on other projects such as board games, books, and a table-top games.

* Experience with UIKit, Cocoa Touch, Foundation, Core Data, and Cocos2D-iPhone Frameworks.

LKC TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Jan 07 – Jul 09

Gaithersburg, MD

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER

* Design, Architecture, Construction, and Refactoring of Electrophysical Medical Software

--- Real-Time Data Acquisition in C#, ADO .NET, CV++6.0 and MFC32

--- Integrating with Real-Time Video, RS232, and USB

--- Instrument communication in Real-time over USB and RS232

--- GUI, DLL, in VB and VC++ in Windows

--- Custom modifications for customers

* Design, Architecture, and Construction of Psychophysical Medical Software

--- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in C++ and VB

--- Dynamic Filtering Data in Real-Time

--- Constructed Unique Solver Software for fitting curves of biological data and analyses

* Install-Shield Development and Distribution of Software

* Developed Automation software for Production, Calibration, and Quality Control

--- Implemented Solver routine for VB 6.0

* Customer Support from phone calls to on-site field service to training of research and clinical professionals.

* Troubleshooting hardware and software problems in both production and R&D.

* Built, Calibrated, Installed, and Repaired medical devices.

* Edited Software Specifications for Outsourcing Code Projects

* Wrote procedures for Quality System

* Participation in development of ISO13485 and IEC 60601 approved AC/DC biomedical amplifier.

* Provided on-site IQ, field service, and training of research and clinical professionals

* Provided assistance for customers developing OQ and PQ for their laboratories.

BIOSCAN, INC. Aug 06 – Dec 06

Washington, DC

SOFTWARE ENGINEER CONTRACTOR

* Fixed bugs and added features in mission-critical software

* Worked part-time for BioScan while working for a day job that paid the bills. (data-entry tech)

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, (NINDS, MNB, HMCS): May 05 - Aug 06

Bethesda, MD

SCHOLARSHIP STUDENT TRAINEE

* Design on Demand Circuits, Software, and some Mechanics in both Matlab and LabView.

* Training Students in the use of self-written Programs and assisted in their research.

* EEG Signal Processing, Program Design, and Debugging in Matlab.

* Experience in Neural Network Architecture and Other Classification Methods.

* Participated in the work of published papers (see below)

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: Spring Semesters 04 and 05

Kingston, RI

STUDENT VOLUNTEER

* Excising mouse hearts and testing the stress/strain material properties of the myocardium of the left ventricle.

* Comparing normal mice to mice with genetically enlarged hearts and to exercised hypertrophied mice hearts.

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: Fall Semester 02 through Spring 05

Kingston, RI

STUDENT ASSISTANT

* Programming in C++, Perl, and TCL/VTK

--- Ported C++ on Mac OS9 to TCL on Linux

--- Built 3D Model of Mouse Heart in VTK to support Finite Element Model Analysis of a Beating Heart.

AWARDS and HONORS…

NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program Scholar (UGSP)

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Rhode Island

PUBLICATIONS…

Exploration of computational methods for classification of movement intention during human voluntary movement from single trial EEG.

Bai O, Lin P, Vorbach S, Li J, Furlani S, Hallett M. Clin Neurophysiol. 2007 Dec;118(12):2637-55.

Classifying EEG signals preceding right hand, left hand, tongue, and right foot movements and motor imageries.

Morash V, Bai O, Furlani S, Lin P, Hallett M. Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 Nov;119(11):2570-8..

A binary method for simple and accurate two-dimensional cursor control from EEG with minimal subject training.

Turan A Kayagil, Ou Bai, Craig S Henriquez, Peter Lin, Stephen J Furlani, Sherry Vorbach and Mark Hallett Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:14 (06 May 2009)

TECHNICAL SKILLS…

LANGUAGES

Objective-C 2.0, Obj-C++

C++

Java SDK 1.6

C# .NET

VB 6.0, .NET

VC++ 6.0, .NET

Scripting (Applescript, BASH)

Install-Shield

Matlab

VBA

C

Perl

TCL/VTK/ITK

LabView

PSpice

PLATFORMS

Mac OS X

Windows XP, Vista, 7

Linux Red Hat, ROCKS, CentOS, Fedora Core

TECHNOLOGIES, APIs

OsiriX Plug-in (Cocoa)

Cocoa Framework

Equalizer Framework (Eyescale)

OpenGL

DLL (Win32, .NET)

Multi-Threading (Cocoa, .NET)

Real-Time (A/D Collection)

RS232

COM / Win32 / MFC

USB

TCP/IP

Gigasoft’s Pro-Essentials

Firmware (PIC)

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE, IDEs

XCode 3.2

Visual Studio 6.0, 2005, 2008, 2010

GCC 4.0 (minimal)

Microsoft Office

Open Office

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GOVERNING BODIES

(Non-Manager Experience)

FDA (21 CFR 820, 21 CFR 11)

ISO (13485, 14971)

IEC (62304)

NIST

IEEE

RELEVANT COURSEWORK…

<Complete Transcripts Available upon Request>

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY*

605 202 (pre-requisite) Data Structures

605 411 Foundations of Computer Arch

605 401 Foundations of Software Eng**

605 421 Foundations of Algorithms

605 467 Computer Graphics

605 462 Data Visualization

605 767 Applied Computer Graphics

585 605 Medical Imaging

585 606 Medical Image Processing

605 408 Software Project Management

605 781 Distributed Objects

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

ELE 201 Digital Circuit Design

ELE 205 Microprocessor Lab

ELE 305 Intro to Computer Architecture

ELE 314 Linear Systems and Signals

ELE 342/3 Electronics I/II

ELE 422/3 Electromagnetic Fields I/II

(Incl. Optics and Waveguides)

ELE 427 Systems Lab-modeling

ELE 457 Feedback Control Systems

ELE 488/9 Biomedical Engineering I/II

(Final project was a self-built EKG)

ELE 491 Special Problems

(See Student Volunteer in Job Experience Above)

MTH 243 Calculus Functions of Several Variables

MTH 244 Differential Equations

MTH 362 Advanced Engineering Math I

PHL 101 Logic: Principles of Reasoning

ECN 201 Prin. of Economics: Microeconomics

PHL 316 Engineering Ethics

WRT 333 Scientific and Technical Writing

(Final project was a user’s manual)

* Projected Course Schedule, ** Currently Enrolled

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES…

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