Curriculum Vitae

Noleus Technologies is a Houston-based medical device company focused on improving post-operative recovery by developing innovative solutions that reduce intestinal swelling and restore normal bowel function after abdominal surgery, addressing one of the leading causes of extended hospital stays and healthcare costs.

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  Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA): Led DFM initiatives and established the first ISO 13485-compliant assembly lines for Noleus core products, achieving high-quality and scalable production.

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  Process Validation: Executed IQ, OQ, and PQ protocols to validate manufacturing processes, maintaining full regulatory compliance and reproducibility.

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  Design Control Leadership: Oversaw cross-functional engineering teams through all design control phases, ensuring traceability across DHF, DMR, and risk management documentation per ISO 13485 and ISO 14971.

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  Verification & Validation (V&V): Directed comprehensive product verification and validation testing to confirm design intent and ensure safety, efficacy, and reliability.

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  Supplier and Manufacturing Management: Led technical relationships with authorized converters, component suppliers, and contract manufacturers, ensuring design transfer and production readiness.

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  Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered closely with Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical Affairs teams to ensure alignment across the product lifecycle and submission requirements.

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  Strategic Leadership: Defined and executed engineering strategy, technical roadmaps, and budgets to meet company milestones.

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  Regulatory Compliance: Directed engineering efforts to align the Noleus core products with the FDA 510(k) pathway, ensuring design controls and documentation readiness for market submission.

Delee Corp is a company that changes the way cancer is detected, monitored, and treated through the development of liquid biopsy technologies that rapidly isolate and efficiently analyze circulating tumor cells from blood samples.

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  Product Development: Led a cross-functional team of 20 experts through product MVP, product requirements, hardware and software design, production, and launch of two cutting-edge medical devices for cancer diagnostics and therapy monitoring using liquid biopsy technology. Our technology has won more than 4 international awards.

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  Innovation: Established an R&D team, resulting in three non-provisional patent applications and four articles published in top-tier scientific journals.

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  Regulatory Compliance: Worked closely with regulatory affairs teams to ensure all products met FDA requirements and quality standards.

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  Stakeholder Engagement: Represented the company at industry conferences, seminars, and forums, bolstering brand presence and establishing strategic partnerships with hospitals such as Stanford Healthcare and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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  Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated with sales, marketing, and finance departments to ensure successful product commercialization.

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  Technical Development: Extensive expertise in designing optical, mechanical, pneumatic, electronic, and software systems for automated blood handling and multimodal microscopes. Mentored junior engineers, promoting continuous learning and innovation.

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  Strategic Leadership: Formulated and implemented the company's technological strategy, aligning with business objectives and the evolving medical device landscape.

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  Funding: Secured $1.2M through government grants for R&D, $1.5M through crowdfunding, and $1.5M from institutional investors.

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  New Technology Adoption: In collaboration with the Research Hospital (Dr. José Eleuterio González), I led a team responsible for creating a successful custom Large Language Model Application aimed at automating data capture and auto-filling of medical records for physicians and nurses. The application saves at least 80 physicians up to 2 hours per day on paperwork.

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  Product Development: Led development of modular microfluidic components including pressure controllers, flow sensors, and rotary valves for life-sciences prototyping.

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  Technical Development: Designed integrated electronic, mechanical, and firmware systems enabling precise low-volume fluid handling.

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  Team Collaboration: Worked closely with hardware and software teams to deliver training material and intuitive user interfaces for non-expert users.

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  Quality Assurance: Designed and implemented test rigs and QA procedures for commercial lighting electronics, ensuring consistent output and regulatory compliance.