Résumé, Kian Hageman

Résumé

Kian Hageman

319.521.1521 • [email protected] • hagemancompanylimited.com

Professional Summary

Biomedical engineering undergraduate specializing in biomechanics and biomaterials, with hands-on experience in physiological modeling, medical device simulation, and full-cycle prototyping, from need statement through CAD, simulation, and verification testing. Seeking medical device engineering roles in R&D, simulation, and quality control.

Education

University of Iowa — B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering Three-time Dean’s List, GPA 3.26 / 4.0 — Dec 2026

Relevant coursework: Senior Capstone • Biomaterials & Implant Design • Adv. Medical Device Design Studio • Cardiopulmonary Design & Modeling • Biomedical Micro Devices • Fluid Mechanics • Electrical Circuits & Systems

Engineering Projects

Senior Capstone (Cyclodapt): Worked on the design of an adaptive bicycle braking and balancing system that lets a rider with an upper-limb difference cycle without a prosthetic, taking it from need statement to a working, tested prototype.
Aortic Stent CFD Model: Simulated blood flow through a stent placed in the descending aorta and compared it with a healthy aorta in Ansys Fluent, using EnSight post-processing to evaluate wall shear stress and recirculation.
EMG-Activated Elbow Model: Modeled the elbow joint and ligaments and used a servo to reproduce motion from live EMG signals through an Arduino microcontroller, supporting circuitry, and custom filtering algorithms, then verified the system on two test subjects.
Cardiovascular Gas Exchange Simulation: Defined and solved a system of differential equations in MATLAB, from known initial conditions, to model the exchange of oxygen and CO₂ between the lungs and the rest of the body.
Cerclage Wire Re-design: Redesigned the surface macrotexture of titanium cerclage fixation bands to improve their fixation performance.

Work History

Dive Right In Scuba — Engineering Intern & Technical Sales Summers 2023–2026

Completed a one-summer formal engineering internship: inspected, cleaned, rebuilt, and certified aluminum and steel high-pressure cylinders and regulator systems to manufacturer specifications, and blended custom nitrox and trimix gases.
Authored and illustrated three in-house technical reference guides: Ultimate Backmount, Sidemount, and Drysuit.
Independently developed internal processes that removed redundant triple reporting and improved efficiency.
Appointed drysuit program manager; traveled out of state to fit exposure protection for the Michigan State Police team.

Double Action Dive Charters — Booking Manager May 2026–Present · Seasonal

Manage bookings for a scuba diving charter boat as the point of contact for customers, captains, and crew, and help coordinate boat maintenance, crew training, and partner dive shop accounts.

Dive Scheduler — Chief Product Officer and Sales May 2026–Present

Lead product for a booking and scheduling platform built for dive charters: own product direction, interface and user flows, specifications, and acceptance testing, and direct one external developer who handles implementation.
Design the web back end and mobile apps, covering customer and partner bookings, rosters, team management, certifications, waivers, boat maintenance and logistics, docks, dive sites, rentals, crew training, and pay sheets, with an immutable audit log for insurance and Coast Guard reporting.
Own demos, pricing, closing, and post-sale support; one charter operator is live on the platform and a second is onboarding.

Leadership & Involvement

Eagle Scout: Organized a work team of government officials and local volunteers to build a walking bridge (2021).
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club President: Led the club for three semesters, organizing competitions and teaching fundamentals classes (2024–2025).
Technical Diver: Certified since 2014, with deep, cavern, cave, and decompression certifications earned between 2019 and 2023. Working knowledge of gas laws, pressure physiology, and equipment reliability.
Published Art: “The Reflection,” acrylic on canvas, published in the University of Iowa’s Ink Lit Mag (2023).

Software and Skills

MATLAB • Creo Parametric (CAD) • Ansys / Fluent • EnSight • 3D Slicer • C++ • Python • Arduino • CFD & FEA

Why the diving matters to my engineering

Technical diving isn’t just a hobby that happens next to my engineering, it runs on the same fundamentals. Every dive is an exercise in the things medical device work depends on: physiology under pressure, gas behavior governed by hard physical laws, and equipment that has to perform reliably when failure isn’t an option.

Life-support reliability mindset

Inspecting, rebuilding, and certifying high-pressure cylinders and regulators, and diving them in overhead environments, builds an instinct for redundancy, failure modes, and tolerances. That’s the same discipline a medical device demands when a patient depends on it.

Applied physiology & gas laws

Planning nitrox, helium, and staged-decompression dives means working real gas laws and pressure physiology in my head, the same coursework foundation behind my cardiopulmonary and gas-exchange modeling projects.

Calm, procedural problem-solving

Cave and deep diving reward methodical planning and staying composed when something goes sideways, exactly the temperament that testing, verification, and troubleshooting reward in a lab or on a manufacturing floor.

Human-centered design empathy

Fitting exposure protection, configuring gear for different bodies and skill levels, and authoring guides that make complex systems approachable, all feed directly into designing devices around real users, the core of my capstone work.

For an employer, that means an engineer who already thinks in terms of reliability, human factors, and physical systems under stress, and who has spent years practicing exactly that judgment outside the classroom.