PhilipsSW Development Engineer 2 & R&D Lead
May. 2013 - Dec. 2014Bothell, WAR&D Lead and SW Project Engineer overseeing R&D activities for my team in 3 geo-located teams ensuring quality projects that met regulatory requirements. In my first position, responsible for development of automation software to support automation testing on Ultrasound systems. - Led a group of 15+ devs at 3 geo-located sites to bring a brand new high demand feature to market - Worked closely with Clinical, Market leaders, Regulatory, Verification and Validation, Senior Management, Directors and Test team on several FDA/Customer impacting issues to resolve in a timely fashion to the FDA requirements while avoiding customer impact. - Resolved customer issues quickly with the team - Pioneered agile development practices Held daily standups between the three sites - Migrated the automated system test software from a paid software costing $100,000+ annually to an in house developed solution - Solved memory leak issue that caused tests to not meet the 100 hour run mark and prevented automated test sign off - Created new automation tools for Analysis and 3D modes on the ultrasound system.