WORK EXPERIENCE
Helmer Scientific Sep 2010 – present
Noblesville, IN
Senior Electrical Engineer
Management
· Manage contract electrical and software engineers
· Manage interns on project tasks
· Manage project time lines and resources
· Manage and coordinate junior developers work efforts
· Work with QA on creating regulatory engineering processes
· Develop SOPs for engineering processes
· Manage software development life cycle for control software products
Engineering
· Design custom PCB for device control
· Provided integrated design analog control circuitry including analog computers circuits.
· Worked with customers regarding documentation traceability from requirements to test protocols
· Organize and conduct code reviews
· Write Validation and Verification test plans
· Write product users and functional requirements in conjunction with product management teams
· Write design specifications for software controlled devices
· Write software architectural design documentation
Software Development
· Developed software for embedded blood product storage devices using Qt/C++ in Linux
· Develop control software for TI based ARM and Beagle Bone controllers
· Developed test software in .Net and Linux using Visual Basic and GAMBAS
· Implement software management tools such as Subversion for version control
· Developed test protocols for embedded software control systems.
· Develop Blue Tooth based prototypes controls to test medical blood storage inventory.
· Develop TCP/IP server and client based applications
· Develop TCP/IP communication protocol handling software including JSON and XML
· Develop Android test applications
· Develop MySQL interface code in C++
Cicero Bioinstrumentation, Inc. (CBI) Jan 2004 – Sep 2010
Cicero, IN
Director
Management
· Develop Business and Marketing plans.
· Research potential customers, and customer contacts.
· Manage material resources
· Manage company inventory and purchase order system.
· Develop and maintain company budget.
· Work with accounts regarding payroll & and company balance sheet.
· Manage internal and contract engineers, technicians
· Write design proposals and quotations for life science engineering and software development
projects
· Manage design, build, and shipment of projects for European Union customers
· Provide biomedical engineering work for CBI projects including electrical/mechanical and
software (Windows CE , Windows .Net, Linux in Visual Basic, C, and C++)
· Manage community relations including the granting of sponsorship/donation monies to
community organizations
· Manage company quality systems for ISO/FDA compliance
· Represent CBI’s membership with,
The Indiana Medical Device Manufactures’ Council
The Indiana Health and Industry Forum
The Laboratory Robotics Information Group
The Hamilton North Chamber of Commerce
Engineering
· Design custom orthopedic implant inspection systems for manufacturing QA
· Design custom PCB for measurement instrumentation and device control
· Developed software for computer assisted surgical robots using Qt/C++ in Linux
· Developed unit test software in .Net and Linux using NUnit and CppUnit
· Design specialized robotic grippers for orthopedic implant manipulation
· Implement software management tools such as Subversion for version control
· Developed test protocols for integrated systems.
· Provided integrated design analog control circuitry including analog computers circuits.
· Worked with customers regarding documentation traceability from requirements to test protocols
· Developed wireless environmental control systems to test medical packaging
· Designed and programmed embedded control systems for medical devices
· Provided consultation for vision tracking/ patient positioning consultation to the proton therapy
Field
· Developed new types of glucose meter prototypes with miniature servo motors
· Developed laser based instrumentation
· Developed digital electronic control systems include stepper motor controls
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility Jan 2001 April 2007
Bloomington, IN
Controls/ Software Engineer
Software Development
· Write user interface software using Visual Basic in Windows CE environment for wireless hand
held PCs using bar code identification.
· Developed PDA bar code scanning software for accessing Patient and Treatment Records
using MySQL database on a Red Hat Linux Server.
· Write Patient Treatment Control software using KDevelop & QT Widgets in a Linux
Environment.
· Write GUI Robot patient position control software using Visual C++ and Visual Basic in a
Windows Environment.
· Develop TCP/IP communications protocol for Linux controller system for patient treatment.
· Develop a Linux Kernel Driver that communicated to PCI-6025E card and a user space program
for real-time event driven health signal.
· Develop software for a 3D Vision Tracking system in Windows using Visual C++ and the MFC.
· Develop patient positioning software using Visual C++ and the MFC.
· Develop image processing software for converting RAW image data to JPEG and DICOM files.
· Design computer controlled Digital X-ray System using Varian 4030 panel and an industrial
robot.
· Write control software using C in VMS environment.
· Write C code in the QNX real-time environment for dose delivery prototyping.
· Write test plans for software testing.
· Develop unit, integration and system testing for software
· Manage contract software programmers for the development of a treatment control application.
· Develop web based applications using PHP accessing MySQL databases and Microsoft Access
databases.
Electrical Design
· Design position and acceleration monitoring circuits.
· Design computer/transducer interfaces used in a proton therapy environment.
· Design computer controlled patient positioning systems for proton therapy using an industrial
Robot using National Instruments DAQ interface cards.
· Researched, and tested Parker Servo Motor and controls for radiation environment
General
· Assist in establishing and implementing GMPs.
· Preparing design documentation for FDA approval.
· Perform FMEAs on designs.
· Management of several design projects, including mechanical, electrical and software designs.
· Develop processes and procedures for engineering design control.
· Write verification and validation test plans for software and hardware.
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