Staff

Systems Engineering

Milan Trcka, RF Engineer, Electrical Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Electrical Engineering

Milan brings over 25 years of electronic and electromechanical system design and project engineering experience specializing in RF systems, wide-band instrumentation systems, analog and RF circuits, power electronics, analog, digital and RF PC board design and packaging. He has designed high-power, Class-D ultrasound ablation amplifiers and matching networks; variable-output switching power supplies; brushless, sensorless DC motor drivers and controls; portable high-capacity battery power management systems, low-level electro-chemistry and dynamic motion-sensing channels; systems using microprocessors and FPGAs; 2.4GHz digital radio applications, wireless modems, 25MHz wideband instrumentation systems, high-performance space-borne magnetic tape recorder systems, 250Mb/s low-error rate data channels, and RF filters and amplifiers. Milan is fluent in English and Czech. His papers have been published in Japan and by IEEE. He has two patents in magnetic recording and others pending. Milan holds a BSEE from University of Maryland and an MSEE from California State University, Los Angeles.

Robert Lucero, Software Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Software Engineering

Having served as a software engineering manager and project leader during his 25 plus years in software and firmware development, Robert has gained extensive experience in project management, medical product architecture development, software requirements development, software design, and software verification and validation for medical devices. He has worked on medical products including core body temperature controllers, ventricular assist devices, medical laser imagers, nutritional gas analyzers, ultrasound tissue characterization systems, patient monitoring systems, blood pumps, cardiac ablation systems, genotyping systems, blood processing devices, spinal disc reconstruction devices, fluid balance and hydration systems, pharmaceutical tablet dispensing device, and ophthalmology devices. Robert holds a BSEE from MIT and an MS in Computer Engineering from USC.

Clark Foster, Mechanical Systems Engineer, Director of Mechanical Engineering

Clark brings over 25 years of mechanical engineering and system design experience in development of medical devices, production technology, and aeronautics. He is listed with the USPTO as a Prolific Inventor with 137 US utility patents from 1988 to 1997 (25th in the world). He has experience designing knee braces, medication inhalers, implanted artificial occluding muscle, safety syringes, blood draw and IV systems, surgical instruments, drug vials, and insulin injecting pens. He has designed production assembly tools for disposable pump cartridges and an intraocular lens centering arm trim machine. Clark has also worked on projects for space reentry vehicle surface cooling, jet engine location optimization, and the B2 Bomber wind tunnel. He has a private pilot’s license and is a certified assistant aerobatic judge. Clark holds a BSME from University of Washington.

Jerry Johansen, Mechanical Systems Engineer, Disposables Design Engineer, Director Disposables Engineering

Jerry has over 30 years of experience in the development of medical devices. He has project management experience includes companies such as Medtronic (heart valves, interventional cardiology catheters and guide wires) and Guidant (catheters, guide wires and accessories). In addition to taking products from concept to market release, Jerry has also worked for a number of start-up organizations and has established complete R&D and manufacturing infrastructures from the ground up. Being one of the first employees of IntraLuminal Therapeutics, Inc., where, as VP of R&D established in-house resource requirements and lead a team of engineers to develop a device for gaining access to and treating chronic total occlusions in the human vasculature. Jerry managed the installation of Aubrey Group’s Clean Room Facility and manages its use and continuous improvements, including manufacturing, packaging and sterilization validation executions. Jerry has 3 patents and one pending, one depicting a novel way to establish a deflectable tipped catheter using hydraulic pressure. He has a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey and a Masters in Manufacturing Management (MMMS) from General Motors Institute, Flint, Michigan.

Physicians and Scientists

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David Mishelevich, MD, PhD, Physician, Biomedical Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Director of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Affairs

David is an entrepreneur (co-founder of unsuccessful and successful ventures; currently Co-Founder of VC-funded start-up company, NeoStim (deep-brain neuromodulation using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS))) and has been an officer of two public companies. At Aubrey Group, he has been Project Manager for the development of orthopedic-driver/drill, telemedicine-interface, analyte-monitoring, cryopreservation storage, aesthetic, hemodialysis, and neurostimulator devices. He has also worked on development of devices for pulmonary function measurement and training, remote manipulation of catheters, and neuromodulation (both with TMS and optical stimulation) with five patents issued (two in respiratory devices, one each in physician documentation using speech recognition, behavior feedback using RFID, and deep-brain modulation) and two dozen pending (neuromodulation and hemodialysis). He chaired the Department of Medical Computer Science at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Dallas); directed the M.S. and Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Engineering and the Ph.D. Program in Mathematical Sciences at UT Southwestern Graduate School, authored over 100 publications, and was Consulting Professor of Neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine. David is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He received his BS in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Ron Diamond, PhD Physicist, Systems Engineer, Senior Project Manager

Ron has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, product development, and program management in the in-vitro diagnostic instrumentation and medical device fields. He is experienced in the development of optical, fluidic, ultrasonic, and thermodynamic systems for complex laboratory instruments, as well as in the development of injection molded consumables. As Director of Technical Systems at Nichols Institute Diagnostics, he led the engineering group in bringing to market a chemiluminescence based immunodiagnostic instrument. At Baxter Paramax Chemistry Systems, as Manager of the Systems Engineering group and Sr. Staff Scientist, he led the development of novel spectrophotometer, ultrasonic dissolution, and sample delivery systems. Ron has four patents in fluidics and sample handling. Having received his BS in Physics from Stanford and his PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Ron taught physics at Florida State University and the University of Notre Dame before leaving academia for medical device development.

Electrical Engineering

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Gary Gottlieb, PhD, Senior Principal Engineer

Gary has more than 30 years experience designing high-speed analog, digital and mixed signal products from boards to systems. He has extensive knowledge in design for signal integrity and EMC compliance. He has successfully designed video cameras from video sensor input to processed digital output, datacom and telecom products, wireless data storage and communication systems, analog and digital data acquisition systems, high-throughput LANs, and an automated defibrillator featuring ECG analysis, heart pacing, and delivery of defibrillating energy. Gary has 6 US and 19 international patents for key analog and digital solutions, including several patents on new methods of A/D conversion and frequency measurement. He has presented his scientific and technical achievements in more than 40 papers (5 published in the US) and at nine international conferences. His honors include awards for a state-of-the-art system design from the Latvian Academy of Sciences and a Medal in Recognition of Outstanding Achievements in System Design from the Exhibition of National Achievements, Russia. Gary holds a MSEE degree from State University of Latvia and a PhD in EE from Technical University of Penza, Russia.

Randy Ponitzman, Senior Electrical Engineer

Randy has over 30 years of circuit design experience with expertise in the areas of digital design and programmable logic. He has designed digital circuitry ranging from designs with only SSI/LSI logic devices to designs using memory such as SRAM and SDRAM to large FPGA designs that he implemented using VHDL or Verilog. He has done designs using ADCs and DACs. He has developed systems using many different microprocessors including devices from Intel, Motorola, Cypress, AMD and Atmel. In his more than seven years at Aubrey Group he has developed electronics for a number of medical products. On one product he developed the digital control for the RF power delivery system for a heart ablation system. In another project he added an Ethernet interface. In addition to his expertise in VHDL and Verilog hardware design languages, he has developed software using C, C++ and assembly languages. He holds a BSEE degree (with honors) from the University of Florida.

Roman Slizynski, Senior Electrical Engineer

Roman brings more than 20 years experience in electronic instrumentation, test, and measurement. His expertise is in precision voltage and current measurement and generation, high-speed signal acquisition, signal integrity and calibration. He has worked at Tektronix and Credence Systems, and holds 3 patents in measurement techniques. Roman has a BSEE from the Akademia Gorniczo Hutnicza in Krakow, Poland, and has been on the adjunct faculty at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
At Aubrey Group, Inc. Roman worked on several projects with variety of technical disciplines spanning from analysis of load cells signals, through application using 20 kV 100 ns pulses to study of human tissue electrical properties. Thanks to his innovative work, Roman has applied for three patents.

Jeff Crockett, Senior Electrical Engineer

As an analog design engineer, Jeff has designed RF and analog circuits, atomic clocks, power supplies, EMC-compliant circuits, and low-power, low-noise DC-DC converters. Jeff began his 25 year engineering career in aerospace designing custom hybrid microcircuits. More recently, he has designed low-noise RF power oscillators, phase-locked loops, frequency synthesizers, precision temperature controllers, analog filters, and amplifiers. He has also developed precision closed-loop control algorithms and systems for atomic clocks. Jeff holds three patents in atomic frequency standards and has authored a poster paper on power supply noise at a 2002 IEEE symposium. He has a diploma from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Blaine Murakami, Senior Electrical Engineer

Blaine was the winner of the 2005 Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Award, presented by Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering society, to the most outstanding electrical engineering student in the nation. Acting as the Principal Investigator, Blaine led a multidisciplinary team of 30 electrical and mechanical engineering undergraduates to design, build, and test two nanosatellites for launch into low earth orbit. While a student, Blaine co-founded a local high-technology company that developed self-steering antenna technology. He is also the co-author of 13 conference papers. Blaine holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and two provisional patents. He has continued his outstanding engineering career at Aubrey Group.

Lawton C. Bates, Electrical Engineer

Lawton has more than 25 years of professional experience in designing, prototyping, testing, and documenting electronic circuits, including eight years with Aubrey Group. His innovations include a multiple-channel temperature measurement system meeting extreme requirements for range, accuracy, and update time. Lawton created our original component database system and has served as Aubrey Group's primary facilitator of electronic design automation. Specializing in printed circuit board design, he has consistently produced zero-error PCB prototypes, thus shortening the design-cycle time. Lawton holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Irvine.

Soeung Yuen, Technician, Associate Electrical Engineer

Soeung holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic University in Pomona. His work includes circuit design, breadboard and PCB assembly, EMC troubleshooting and testing, PCB repair, component selection and purchasing, and computer support. He is currently enrolled in the MSEE program at California State University, Long Beach.

Steve Gutierrez, Associate Electrical Engineer

Steve Gutierrez brings 10 years of experience supporting engineering activities and providing technical support for medical device manufactures. He has built prototype phacoemulsification systems and constructed PCB’s from component level designs. Certified biomedical engineer providing diagnostics on Johnson & Johnsons ASP gas plasma sterilization systems and Advanced Medical Optics phacoemulsification systems, Steve provided Level 2 technical support to field service engineers, when no schematics were available for service engineering. He reversed engineered peristaltic motor drive circuits for root-cause analysis of problem components and provided updated schematics to service engineering. He also has experience designing a robot using PWM technology for DC motors, as well as in circuit design including transistor power amplifiers and power supply design. Steve designed RF data communication system using 10bit serial decoder and encoders. He has experience in programming ATMEL Atmega16 microcontroller in C++ environment using AVR Studio and WinAVR. Steve has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic and Communication Engineering Technology from ITT Technical Institute.

Tien Nguyen, Test Engineer

Tien has three years of experience medical device testing including high voltage and RF transceiver tests for medical implantable devices. He also has several years experience as a LabView and TestStand developer. He is experienced in medical device development processes and manufacturing environments. He has over 10 years experience as a test engineer in the frequency and timing industry. He has designed and integrated automated testing equipment for a rubidium aging system, phase noise measurement, and temperature compensation for crystal oscillators. He earned his BSEE at California State Poly.

Software Engineering

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Jahnavi Lokre, Director of Marketing, Principal Software Engineer

Jahnavi has extensive experience designing and developing complex control systems. Her experience includes medical devices, automatic train control and communications, and electric propulsion software. She is experienced in all phases of product development, from concept and requirement definition to design, implementation, and verification. She is well versed with IEC 60601 and FDA medical device regulations, as well as CMM models. She has gained expertise in multiple embedded operating systems and programming languages, several microprocessors and digital signal processors. Her medical device experience includes patient temperature monitoring system, a cardiac ablation system, a spine inter-vertebral disc nucleus injection system, a safety processor for an automated blood collection system, a remote patient monitoring system, a DNA genotyping system, a portable device for the treatment of Tinnitus, and a hospital ventilator for pediatric and adult patients. She holds a BSEE from the College of Engineering in Pune, India, an MSEE from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Her specializations include Strategy, Technology Management and Marketing. She is responsible directing and coordinating the marketing functions at Aubrey Group.

Sean Nash, Principal Software Engineer

During his 15-year career as a software engineer, Sean has developed software for surgical lasers, in-vitro diagnostics, pacemakers, ophthalmic devices, ablation systems, blood processors, intravenous body temperature controllers, patient monitors, home monitors, and infusion pumps. In addition, he has experience developing single and multi-user Windows software including design and development of an FDA-compliant medical device service and complaint-handling application, a manufacturing distribution supply chain management application, and a clinical trial data collection application. He is experienced in all phases of product development. He has experience with compliance to IEC 60601-1-8. He has worked with several real-time operating systems, including ThreadX and MicroC/OS-II and holds a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Vincent Su, Principal Software Engineer, Project Manager

Vincent has served as software engineering manager and project manager during his 20-plus years in software and firmware development. He has a diverse background in multiple industries including medical, wireless communication, semiconductor, data storage, and imaging. His experience with medical devices includes design and development of the first solid-state ambulatory 12-lead ECG monitor, an intra-cranial pressure monitor, ventilator, and others. He is well versed in software engineering methodologies (Structured, Object Oriented), software life cycle (CMMI, ISO 9000) and process models (Waterfall, Iterative). During his career he has developed multi-tasking real-time embedded systems, Linux/Unix and Windows device drivers, and applications using C/C++, Java, and assembly language. Vincent graduated summa cum laude with a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MS in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University.

Himanshu Patel, Senior Software Engineer

Himanshu has over 10 years of product design experience with the last seven dedicated to medical devices. Prior to his joining Aubrey Group, he held various positions, including Project Engineer at Indian Space Research Organization, Software Engineer at Cisco Systems and Principal Software Engineer at Medtronic Inc, during which he has applied for 9 US patents in the field of glucose monitoring, wireless medical device communications and medical device innovations. He is experienced in all phases of product development, from concept to design, implementation, and verification. He has product design experience with various microcontrollers from Intel, Atmel, Hitachi, Motorola, Texas Instrument, Microchip as well as Custom ASIC, FPGA and CPLDs. He has extensive experience with several real-time operating systems, including ThreadX, Redhat eCos, Cisco IOS and various other custom OS. He has designed various custom wireless solutions for medical devices using Bluetooth, Zigbee and low power wireless protocols in ISM band. Himanshu holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University, India and MSEE candidate from California State University, Northridge.

Matthew Meyer, Senior Software Engineer

During his professional career, Matthew has developed software for the Boeing 747, database applications for the Space Shuttle, business and consumer credit database applications, and IEC 61508-compliant, triple-redundant IO systems for safety critical control of industrial processes. He has expertise in C, C++, and Ada, and with ARM-based processors. Matthew holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of San Diego and a MS in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Brian Lau, Software Engineer

Brian began his career in Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device development where he designed and tested software modules on file system management while interfacing with Fibre Channel networks. In the aerospace industry, he developed and maintained safety-critical control software for a fly-by-wire rudder control system under FAA regulation (DO-178 Level A and B), and organized the software and requirements verification effort. In addition, he has experience in developing a military RF communication system from Datalink level to Application level. Well versed in C, C++, C#, Java, and Web development language such as Flash, Flex, ColdFusion and Javascript. He is also experienced in various software development models including CMMI. Brian holds a BS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Jeffrey Beaupré, Software Engineer

Jeffrey is a software engineering generalist, with experience in artificial intelligence, distributed applications, embedded devices, internet applications, operating systems, and database management software development in a variety of programming languages and platforms. He has applied best practices in software architecture, detailed design, and implementation to various command, control, and automated planning systems as they apply to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Development projects include the RQ-8B Firescout, the RQ-4 Global Hawk, and the A-160 Hummingbird. A runner-up for the Viterbi School of Engineering Archimedes Award, Jeffrey graduated with honors, and at the top of his class, earning a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Ray Anderson, Software Engineer

While attending Oregon State University Ray worked with a multidisciplinary engineering team to design and build a rapid prototyping 3D printer that took first place in the electrical and mechanical engineering categories. During school he held internships at Mentor Graphics and Radisys. He has experience with many programming languages including C, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, VHDL, as well as with embedded devices such as microcontrollers and FPGAs. While at Aubrey Group Ray has worked with ARM processors using Green Hills tools, as well as expanded his experience with object oriented .net programming design patterns. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University and continues his goal of learning and achieving at Aubrey Group.

Bill Welsh, Consultant, Software V&V Engineer

Bill has more than 25 years of design and management experience in product, software, and hardware development for military, commercial, and medical systems. He has over 7 years of specialized experience in the development of risk analyses, documentation, and software verification and validation protocols that meet FDA standards. He holds a BSEE from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Engineering from California State University, Fullerton. He is also a Novell CNE.

Mechanical Engineering

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Hank Westra, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Hank has almost 20 years experience in designing medical equipment, from fiber optic light sources and insufflators used in minimally invasive surgery to a large number of high precision robotically-manipulated laparoscopic instruments. Originally from the Netherlands, where he earned his BS in Industrial Engineering, Hank has been awarded patents for his work at Intuitive Surgical and USGI Medical. He likes to travel and recently returned from a motorcycle tour from the US to Argentina and Brazil and back.

Aaron Gifford, Senior Mechanical Engineer

Aaron has over 14 years of professional engineering experience in industries ranging from dry toner production, robotic assembly work cells and high-speed semiconductor manufacturing equipment, to implantable medical devices. He has extensive experience with both R&D and manufacturing, designing equipment and assemblies, as well as supporting tooling and fixtures. His achievements with semiconductor test equipment, capable of a controlled temperature range of -76°F to 320°F while testing and sorting IC’s, include: cost-reduction and feature-enhancement activities; design upgrades; pneumatics; electro-mechanical systems; servo systems; temperature measurement and control; and even field support in the Philippines. He developed custom robotic tooling for circuit board assembly for firms such as Chrysler and Delphi. He also developed a LIM molded implantable spinal cord stimulating lead for controlling pain and has a patent pending in this field. At Cal Poly, he earned a BS in mechanical engineering and worked on its Tournament of Roses Parade floats. His medical device experience at Aubrey Group includes a real-time blood glucose meter and design of an electrosurgical instrument for cauterizing and cutting tissue during surgery.

Russ Wade, Senior Mechanical Engineer

Russ has 23 years of product design experience and is expert in SolidWorks and ProEngineer. His design experience includes disposable sets, extracorporeal devices for treatment of sepsis, an instrument for collection of plasma by membrane filtration, and a self-contained, continuous-flow, centrifugal device that separates whole blood into various components. He has also developed key parts of a system that collects and disposes surgical waste fluid and evacuates smoke within a totally closed system. He has received several product design awards, and holds two design patents, with others pending. Russ has a Machinist’s certificate and an AA in machine technology from Orange Coast College.

Thanh Nguyen, Senior Mechanical Designer

Thanh has over 20 years of experience in technical drafting. During the last 10 years, he has done many valve designs for high pressure coolant systems. He has created many prototypes, reversed-engineer and fixtures for the semi-conductor industries. He has also designed some medical devices for back bone surgery and dental tools. He has over 15 years of experience as an AutoCAD designer. He has a diploma at ITT College and also a Certified SolidWorks Professional.

Herbert Kraus, Consultant, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Systems Engineer

In his 20 plus years of mechanical engineering, Herb designed disposable medical devices and laboratory and production equipment, including gas, fluid, and dry-form diagnostic test kits, pharmaceutical processing, and check-weighing. Products developed include ventilation therapy devices, dental instruments, plotters and printers, telescopes, and manufacturing automation systems. Herb has acted as project engineer, project manager, and head of engineering at several companies. Herb received a BS in engineering and an MSME from UCLA. He holds several design and utility patents and is a Registered Professional Engineer.

Charles Clemens, Consultant, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Disposables Design

Chuck has over 25 years of hands-on biomedical disposable and device experience including IV fluid-delivery systems, DNA/SDA system development, blood-pressure monitoring systems, liquid drug inhalers, medical heat exchangers, disposable diagnostic devices, liquid biocompatible adhesive delivery, thermometry, and custom orthotics. He has developed manufacturing processes. Chuck has significant experience in the application of FDA, CGMP, GQR, and ISO regulations. He has worked both as a consultant and full-time staff member at start-up companies and large corporations. He was Technical Director for Development Engineering for Alaris Medical Systems (formerly IVAC). At Carbomedics, Inc. he was Project Manager for Process Development Engineering. He has also worked for Alliance Pharmaceuticals Corp., Mission Medical Inc., Becton Dickinson/Nanogen, Inc., JV, Prism Medical, AreoGen, Inc., and InJet Digital Aerosols. Chuck is an inventor on two U.S. and one Canadian patents and has patents pending. He has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from San Diego State University.

Thomas Robinson, Consultant, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Disposables Design

Tom has been successfully developing devices and manufacturing systems for the medical industry for over 35 years, focusing on high volume disposables and implantables. His projects have included optical catheters used for detecting rejection in heart transplant patients; an automated whole blood collection and separation device; a fiber optic probe for early breast cancer detection; a fluid block cassette for automated urinalysis system; a bio-artificial liver device; cell separation device; single incision port-access cannula for high-precision heart surgery; tubing circuit for pancreatic islet isolation and encapsulation; needlestick protection devices and opthalmics. At Bridge Medical, he was the Director of Engineering and developed a medication management system. At Quest Medical, he was Director of Product Development responsible for implantable spinal cord stimulators. At McGaw (now B. Braun), KippMedd (now Medegen) and Travenol Laboratories (now Baxter International), he served as Director of Product Development, VP of Operations, and Senior Project Manager. Tom has been published in industry magazines, and has seven U.S. patents. His educational training is in mechanical engineering.

Biomedical Engineering

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Kinman Hong, Biomedical Engineer

Kinman holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. While in school, Kinman researched under Dr. Abraham Lee, focusing on the development of microfluidic chips in microbubble formation for on-site drug deliver. He has also led a senior design team to develop a bladder pressure monitor for paraplegics in cooperation with Aubrey Group, Inc. During his employment at the same company, Kinman trained as a mechanical engineer with experiences in disposables development, product packaging, sterilization, and manufacturing.

Manufacturing and Support

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Keith Sather, Director, Manufacturing

Keith is a senior manufacturing manager experienced in medical device and other high tech industries. He has implemented Manufacturing Resource Planning systems in three companies, directed implementation of Just-in-Time manufacturing systems, developed statistical quality control systems, managed multiple manufacturing transfer projects and directed implementation of offshore production facilities in Europe and Mexico. Immediately before joining Aubrey Group, Keith was a senior manufacturing manager at Edwards Lifesciences. Most recently, he managed operations for a medical device company as part of an Aubrey Group client project.

Bruce Betts, Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Bruce has over 25 years of experience in product design, manufacturing, configuration control and project management. He has served on two ERP implementation teams. Bruce’s experiences includes manufacturing, design support and project management for Medical Device Products, Rubidium clocks, Atomic Oscillators, Timing and Frequency systems, GPS Navigation and Wireless communication products. Bruce has an Associates degree from Delaware Technical and Community College.

Justin Sebe, Database Analyst

Justin is an ERP systems administrator with over 6 years of experience setting up and maintaining several complex systems. Justin also provides full time IT support ensuring that all workstations and servers are available and working. He has over four years of experience working for medical device companies, and is currently focusing on computer based technologies. Justin graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Kinesiology. He has considerable knowledge of both the medical field and technology systems.

Sharee Fox, Buyer and Planner, Component Specialist

Sharee has over 30 years experience in manufacturing, planning, and component engineering. Her past experiences range from procurement and component engineering at a very small NPI facility, to manufacturing and component engineering responsibilities at large printer/plotter, computer, and in-flight entertainment manufacturers in Orange County.

Vanna Chhon, Electronics Assembly and Technical Support

Vanna has over ten years experience in the manufacture of surface mount printed circuit boards and cable and wire harness designs. She is experienced in surface mount and thru-hole techniques, and in-process quality inspection during PCB assembly. Vanna has trained in GMP and ISO 9002 compliance in PCB assembly. She is extremely capable in the detailed rework of fine pitch devices like FPGA’s.

Quality Assurance

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Jim Benard, Director, Quality Assurance

Jim has over 25 years experience in developing and managing quality systems at medical device companies including Sorin Biomedical, Baxter, Sutura, and Jostra Bentley. He has implemented and monitored all policies and procedures mandated by the FDA Quality System Regulation for startup and established medical device companies and has organized efforts required in obtaining UL Certification, ISO Registration, compliance with IEC Standards and EC Certification. He has developed systems to assure compliance to Medical Device Directives and ISO 13485. He has successfully facilitated large and smaller medical device companies through a variety of FDA/QSR and ISO audits. Jim is very experienced in FDA reporting requirements and establishment and product classification registration. He has extensive experience in developing and managing outsourcing programs and supply chain management that meet all regulatory requirements. Jim has a technical degree from Wentworth Institute in Boston and several certifications in QSIT and ISO auditing.

Paula Lam, Quality Control Technician

Paula has over 14 years experience working in the Manufacturing and Quality Control of Photonic and Laser Optical Devices used for Research & Development, Medical, and Military Industries. She built laser and optical miniature devices then later worked as an inspector in the field. She is also a certified Pharmacy Technician. She has experience with ISO 9000 and 5 S principles, helpful in the efficient handling of quality and manufacturing processes.

Drafting and Documentation

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Sabrina Frazier, Document Control Specialist

Sabrina has over 10 years of work experience in engineering. She specializes in documentation control and mechanical drafting using the programs AutoCAD and Solidworks. Her variety of experience includes junior mechanical design and drafting with medical devices, GPS systems, security card readers, barcode readers and scanners. Sabrina has experience and knowledge in the application of ISO regulations. She has an Associate of Applied Science degree from ITT Technical Institute.

Business Development, Finance, and Administration

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Sean O’Campo, Director Business Development, Southern Region

Sean brings more than 17 years experience in technical sales and service. He possesses a very strong understanding of regulatory compliance which was gained during his employment at Intertek Testing and Underwriters Laboratories. Throughout his career he has held various Senior Account Executive and Management positions. Most recently, he was Director of Business Development at HDA Technology, a Medical Device Development firm located in Southern California. He holds a degree from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Cindy Harman, Accountant

Cindy has over 10 years experience in the accounting field. Prior to joining the Aubrey Group she ran her own bookkeeping services company. She holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Phoenix.

Sarah Ferry, Senior Executive Administrator, Human Resources, Facilities and Office Manager

Sarah has over 13 years of management experience in the fields of Human Resources, Office and Facilities. In addition to her management experience she also has extensive experience assisting high level executives. Prior to working with the Aubrey Group, Sarah assisted the Chairman, President and CEO of a successful Orange County company while also serving as their Director of Human Resources. Sarah is a licensed Notary Public within the State of California.