biomedical engineering

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Design & development

Analysis & simulation

Quality, test & risk

Regulatory & standards

Product & delivery

WorkChief Product Officer

Dive Scheduler

Own requirements and specifications, interface and user flows, acceptance testing, and release sign-off for a dive-charter operations platform, directing one external developer.

RequirementsProduct ownershipAcceptance testingTraceabilityVendor managementTechnical sales

ProjectBiomedical engineering capstone

Senior Capstone, Cyclodapt

Full-cycle device development: need statement, market research, functional requirements, CAD modeling, FMEA, ISO-standard testing, and a working prototype.

Needs statementDesign controlsFMEACADDrawingsPrototypingStandardsVerification

WorkEngineering Intern & Technical Sales

Dive Right In Scuba

Inspected and certified high-pressure cylinders and rebuilt regulator systems to manufacturer specification, authored internal work instructions, and removed a triple-entry reporting process.

Inspection & certificationRepair to specWork instructionsProcess improvementTechnical sales

ProjectBiomaterials & FEA

Cerclage Wire Re-design

Literature-grounded redesign of a titanium fracture-fixation band, modeled in Creo Simulate and mapped to FDA and ASTM requirements.

CADFEABiomaterialsStandardsFDA strategy

ProjectCircuits & embedded control

EMG Activated Elbow Model

Design-controls framework, EMG signal chain and circuit design, Arduino-driven actuation, and two-user verification testing.

Design controlsCircuit designEmbedded programmingVerification testing

ProjectAssistive device, BME:3710

UCL Splint Attachments

Patient-interview-driven need statement, prior-art search, dovetail rail system with three attachments, free-body load analysis, dimensioned Creo drawings, and FDA/EU MDR Class I classification.

Needs statementPrior artCADDrawingsLoad analysisClassification

ProjectWearable device, BME:3710

Tremor Dampening

Solo build of a passive tuned mass damper: biomechanical free-body model, hand-derived equations of motion, a MATLAB ode45 dynamic simulation against a stochastic tremor signal, Creo assembly, and a wearable prototype.

Dynamic modelingMATLABCADBiomechanicsPrototyping

ProjectSystems physiology

Computational Physical Modeling

Thirteen-compartment cardiovascular simulation in MATLAB: solute transport with pulsatile versus steady flow, then a closed-loop chemoreceptor controller for CO2 and pH, validated by disturbance response.

MATLABNumerical modelingControl systemsData analysis

WorkBooking Manager

Double Action Dive Charters

Ran the booking desk for a 16-diver charter operation, migrated it off paper and spreadsheets onto purpose-built software, and authored the partner policy book and incident report forms.

Process improvementDocumentationTraceabilityCustomer-facing

ProjectComputational fluid dynamics

CFD Stent

Built and compared two CFD models in Ansys Fluent, evaluating wall shear stress, recirculation, and model-driven artifacts.

CFD simulationData analysisTechnical writing

ProjectComputational fluid dynamics

Carotid Bifurcation CFD

Transient Fluent simulation of an image-based carotid artery: boundary-layer meshing to a quality gate, a UDF-driven pulsatile inlet, and wall shear stress resolved across a full cardiac cycle.

ANSYS FluentMeshingTransient CFDHemodynamics

ProjectActive project

Bairway Trainer

Needs statement and prior-art research for a laryngoscopy training model, plus CAD modeling and iterative physical prototyping.

Needs statementCADPrototyping

ProjectWearable device case study

Stride Assist

Needs-driven redesign of a hip flexion assist device, from market teardown through hands-on textile fabrication.

Needs statementMarket researchPrototyping

ProjectRegulatory feasibility

Home Oxygen Feasibility Study

Market and prior-art research into home oxygen delivery, with a proposed concept and an FDA regulatory pathway assessment.

Market researchFDA strategyStandards

ProjectLiterature review

Microfluidic Devices

A co-authored literature review synthesizing 50+ sources on hydrogel applications in microfluidic devices.

Literature reviewTechnical writing

ProjectSelf-directed build

This site

Hand-coded HTML/CSS design system, information architecture across a twelve-project portfolio, an asset pipeline, and an AI-assisted development workflow.

Web developmentUX designInformation architecture

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Software & tools

The toolkit behind the work above.

MATLAB Creo CAD Ansys Fluent Ensite 3D Slicer C++ Python Microsoft Excel Microsoft Word Microsoft PowerPoint