EXPERIENCE
DEV ACADEMY AOTEAROA
Student – June 2026 to October 2026
• Completed around 800 hours of intensive full-stack development training
• Built full-stack web applications with React/TypeScript frontends, Express/Node backends, relational databases, and third-party API integrations
• Utilized Agile methodologies, including running daily standups, retrospectives, sprints, and kanban boards
• Used Git and GitHub daily, creating branches, pull requests, code reviews, and merge conflict resolution
• Wrote unit tests and basic end-to-end checks to catch regressions and improve application reliability
Developed strong collaboration and communication skills through pair programming, weekly group projects, giving and receiving structured feedback, and weekly formal human skills classes.
• Capstone project: lead development of Momodex, a full-stack web app built with a 5-person team in 2 weeks with integrated AI-powered image recognition (Google Gemini API), a third-party conservation data API (iNaturalist), cloud image hosting (Cloudinary), authentication (Auth0), and a custom turn-based game engine with type-effectiveness and status-effect mechanics. See the full presentation here. Code is available on GitHub
TASKA PROSTHETICS
Research and Project Lead – May 2025 to June 2026
• Created product vision and direction for an embedded smart device, providing key decisions on scope, features, and business strategies.
• Led a team of 7 engineers to deliver on project milestones under tight deadlines, providing constant guidance, mentorship, and support.
• Conducted user research and business analysis to identify user needs, market opportunities, key requirements, technical risks, and launch strategies.
• Developed detailed project plans, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and business goals, to document our path and bring everyone on the same page.
• Provided systems-level oversight and mechanical expertise to support product development by making high level design decisions and approving design reviews.
• Ran user testing sessions with prosthetists and people with limb differences, gathering valuable data, and maintaining good customer relationships.
• Communicated with Leadership to manage expectations and highlight risks and wins, communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fostered a collaborative environment that encouraged innovation and quality, putting the care for our users above all with the goal of improving lives.
STRYKER MAKO
Staff Mechanical Engineer, Robotics Concept Development – May 2023 to April 2025
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Robotics Concept Development – February 2020 to May 2023
• Worked closely with cross-functional team to design and build new surgical robotic systems and instruments.
• Designed solutions for real-time bone tracking methods, knee ligament modeling, backdrivable high-torque actuators, and mechanical locking retractor holders.
• Created complex 3D models in Solidworks, and made engineering drawings for production quality parts using GD&T and tolerance analysis.
• Selected and incorporated electronic components including motors, encoders, and slip rings to build functional mechatronic systems that meet requirements.
• Led bench testing and cadaver testing efforts to de-risk new concepts and technologies, from project inception to transfer to product development team.
• Created rapid prototypes utilizing 3D printing, modification of off-the-shelf components, and other hands-on methods to reduce design cycle time.
• Initiated research projects and presented to relevant divisions to gain buy-in and plan the product roadmap including development time and projected revenue.
• Gathered feedback from surgeons and market research, to drive product direction and bring creative robotic solutions to the surgical market.
• Explored new research and represented Stryker at conferences to identify promising technologies for the future.
Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Design – January 2018 to February 2020
• Designed and developed instrumentation for robotic assisted surgery for multiple applications in SolidWorks, and created detailed engineering drawings.
• Worked with Design Leads, Program Managers, and cross-departmental teammates to coordinate features, workflows, requirements, and mating component designs.
• Led development of new hardware solutions for optical bone tracking and registration, and performed accuracy tests using MatLab scripts.
• Coordinated with machine shop and suppliers to build prototypes and performed bench testing to determine direction of development.
• Represented hardware team in Cadaver Labs and Dry Labs, supporting evaluations with prototypes, quick fixes, and data collection to ensure success of the lab.
• Investigated complaints from the field and proposed design changes following CAPA procedures, leading to increased safety and reduced number of reported failures and complaints.
• Developed a novel device for powered discectomy procedures with a 3-person Innovation Day team, winning 3rd place.
• Advised Summer Intern, planned projects, taught, and gave guidance as the Intern Advisor (June-August 2019).
SKELETAL DYNAMICS
Biomedical Engineer – June 2016 to January 2018
•Designed orthopedic medical devices and surgical tools in SolidWorks, expediting time to manufacture for new products and lowering costs of finished devices by implementing design for manufacturability
•Built prototypes, performed bench testing, stress testing, and optimization of parameters, and analyzed results to determine design feasibility or necessary changes at an early stage of the project in order to save R&D time and money
•Lead cadaver labs to test products in a surgical setting and discover technical problems, necessary tools, and potential failure modes while collaborating with surgeons in order to fully understand the user’s needs
•Lead multiple projects including device for small bone fixation and device for endoscopic carpal tunnel release, developing novel products in critical markets to help the company compete on a larger scale
•Documented the design and development process through lab notebooks, reports, and design reviews, and wrote critical documentation for the document control process in accessible language
•Lead Unique Device Identification efforts, developing part marking standards to ensure regulatory compliance.
•Created a smart sales kit tracking sheet using Visual Basic to improve workflows for the operations team
SKILLS
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, C++.
Mechatronic
Solidworks, FEA, GD&T, Prototyping, 3D printing, Product Design, Soldering
Tech Stack
React, Node.js, Express, SQLite, Knex, REST APIs, Vitest, Supertest, API mocking
Product Thinking
Wireframes, User Stories, User Testing, Requirements, Product Roadmap, Intellectual Property, Regulatory Requirements.
Tools and Services
Git, GitHub, Render, Auth0, Cloudinary, Gemini API, Claude Code.
Soft Skills
Communication, Problem Solving, Creativity, Motivation, Initiative, Learning, Kindness, Inclusion
March 2014 - May 2015
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, NEUROPROSTHETICS RESEARCH GROUP
Designed, built, and tested implantable nanowire electrodes for recording neurological signals
Developed test protocols for rat experiments to record neurological signals during reaching and grasping task
Programmed a rat training platform to display success and failure feedback and dispense rewards upon correct completion of a task
Modified electrical hardware for data extraction
Filtered neurological signal data to remove noise
​Presented results and poster at the Research Creativity and Innovation Forum, winning first place in engineering
January 2016Â - August 2016
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, DIABETES RESEARCH GROUP
Optimized parameters for large-scale pancreatic islet cell encapsulation device for use in future human trials
Performed MTT Assays on murine cell models to create baseline data to be used in future experiments
Performed encapsulation trials, purified samples through gradient analysis, and analyzed results in ImageJ