ERIC K. Y. CHAN, Ph.D., F.E.S.C.

Phone/Voicemail: (650)-305-8818 Email: ecky@ieee.org

CAREER OBJECTIVE
Senior management emphasizing development and management of entire product life cycles for strategic, market responsive products in the medical device and biotech industries.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
CARDIMA, Inc., Fremont, California

Vice-President, Product Development, 1998 - Present

Responsible for supervising entire development cycles for cardiac electrophysiology (EP) mapping & ablation catheter systems, as well as surgical and minimally invasive ablation systems.

Supervised EP catheter and surgical probe development group and electronics systems development group at CARDIMA, for data acquisition and radio-frequency ablation of cardiac tissue for the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia patients.

Created and managed $3m+ annual budget.

Hired and supervised middle-managers, senior and junior engineers, and technicians in arriving at timely product solutions.

Selected Intellectual Property law firms for the company.  Managed corporate  intellectual property portfolio, including invention disclosures, patent applications and trade mark  registration.

Successful track record in filing 510(k)'s and passing TUV/FDA audits with flying colors. Thoroughly well versed in implementaton and enforcement of design controls according to regulatory and quality system standards.

Responsible for development of OEM contracts with MEDTRONIC, Inc. and Guidant, Inc., emphasizing intellectual property issues, costs, OEM development timelines and payment schedules.

Worked in conjunction with senior management and retained corporate and patent law firms in negotiating and finalizing $8m intellectual property asset purchase agreement with MEDTRONIC, Inc.

Wrote Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) for Corporate Product Development Plan, etc., and helped enforce Quality System (design controls/product verification and validation/hazards analysis, etc.), pertaining to catheter development, software engineering and electronics hardware development, under ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and FDA regulations as well as ISO9000-3 guidelines.

As co-inventor, brought a complex multichannel Radio Frequency (RF) energy ablation controller from late concept/early prototype to successful pilot production for clinical trials and commercial release.

Directed scientific study and invented patented early warning system to predict coagulum formation during RF ablation ~ an important attribute in preventing life-threatening blood clots from causing strokes during cardaic RF ablation procedures. 

Vice-President of Engineering, 1993 - 1998

Director of Engineering, 1991 - 1993

Research and Development:

• Supervised, specified and developed software for data acquisition and signal processing in the time and frequency domains, for signal-averaged electrocardiography and heart rate variability analysis, as well as computerized hemodynamic monitoring/cathlab systems.
• Responsible for supervising entire development cycles for software products and systems development.
• Extensive scientific graphical output design and development. Languages used: Microsoft Quick C, Quick Basic (DOS).  Languages supervised: Microsoft Visual Basic / Visual C++ (Win95/NT).
• Developed DICOM medical imaging software modules on Visual C++/WinNT platform.
• Researched and developed software/system using Fourier transform and autoregressive spectral estimation techniques for micropotential analysis in the signal-averaged ECG. U.S. Patent awarded for a new method of analysis.
• Developed clinical protocols and coordinated clinical testing with national and international medical centers.
• Authored and published research articles in IEEE Proceedings, PACE and the European Heart Journal, as well as in-house white papers and science briefs.
• Analyzed patents and algorithms as potential R&D directions, or for competitive analysis.

• Authored and published Interpretation Guides for Spectral Temporal Mapping, and Heart Rate Variability.
• Supervised, designed and maintained in-house scientific literature library and database.
• Invited Speaker for scientific and engineering talks sponsored by IEEE and other organizations.
• Taught in courses and training sessions on time and frequency domain signal-averaged ECG analysis, heart rate variability, computerized electrophysiology studies and computerized intra-cardiac mapping studies, in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.

• Managed and coordinated all in-house software R&D efforts, user manuals, as well as the meeting of regulatory (FDA, TUV, IEC, ISO9000) requirements for these products.
• Authored the company Quality System Manual and Quality Procedures Manual.
• Managed and liaisoned all technology transfer operations from Corazonix Corporation to ART, Inc.
• Liaison between sales/marketing and engineering in developing new product configurations and specifications, technical bulletins and sales communiqués.
• Webmaster for company website: Designed, authored HTML and CGI code, and maintained company's frames-enabled multi-media website: http://www.arthrt.com

• Analyzed and designed an accelerometer-based system for "downhole" depth measurement using Kalman adaptive and predictive filtering algorithms to improve correlating well depth with data.
• Designed, simulated and tested custom VLSI circuitry for a gate array used in optical telemetry.

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Laboratory Instructor for Senior Laboratory, 1984 - 1985 and 1987 - 1990

• Developed the Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Course with a $20,000 equipment grant in developer systems from Motorola Corporation. Curriculum development of a laboratory course was based on the DSP56001 Digital Signal Processor and related assembly language.
• Originated, instructed and supervised digital signal processing projects including ECG analysis, acoustics, speech recognition and music synthesis.
• Originated, instructed and supervised digital, analog and hybrid projects in biomedical electronics, measurement instrumentation and telecommunications.

Research Assistant, 1983 - 1984, and 1988 - 1991

• Designed and implemented algorithms for the enhancement and segmentation of subcutaneous vascular patterns in thermographic images. Applications include non-invasive mapping of saphenous veins and interconnected venous networks for computer-assisted selection of arterial grafts used in coronary bypass surgery.
• Invented a rule-based, adaptive filtering algorithm which addresses specific image degradation problems inherent in thermal cameras.
• Invented "Digital Subtraction Thermographic Venography" (DSTV), a technique for extracting vascular patterns in thermographic images.
• Collaborated with medical doctors in developing clinical protocols.
• Developed a dual-microcomputer system for acquiring visual evoked response and behavioral data, as well as post-acquisition signal averaging, digital signal processing and data analysis.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Biomedical Engineering Center

Undergraduate Research Assistant, 1981 - 1982

• Designed and developed impedance sensing instrumentation using amplitude modulation for use at the front end of an automatic blood pressure controller. Device was accepted for clinical trials at several hospitals.

Student Researcher, 1980 - 1981

• Designed and developed a switch-mode power supply package for a self-contained payload that went into Earth orbit aboard the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-5 in June, 1983.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

• European Society of Cardiology, Fellow
• IEEE-EMBS Central Texas Chapter, Previous Vice-Chairman
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
• Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Member
• Phi Kappa Phi Academic Honor Society, Member
• AAMI Technical Working Group on SAECG, Member and Technical Information Report (TIR) Contributing Author
• Graduate Engineering Council, The University of Texas at Austin, Past-President
• Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare 5th. Edition, 2004/2005Invited Biography
• Living Science 1st. Edition, IBC Cambridge, UK, 2003Invited Biography
• 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th. Century, IBC Cambridge, UK, 2001Invited Biography
• Strathmore's Who's Who 1996/97 and 2000/2001 Registry, Honored Member
• American Men and Women of Science Registry, 1997/1998, Invited Member
• "Who's Who Worldwide" 1994/95 and 1995/96 Registry, Member

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy August 1991 ~ The University of Texas at Austin

• Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Dissertation Title: Vessel Extraction, Visualization and Tracing in Thermographic Venograms

• Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Thesis Title: Visual Evoked Responses During Target Acquisition

• Areas of Concentration: DSP and Communications, Biomedical Engineering

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• Best Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, The University of Texas at Austin
• Outstanding Presentation Award and Finalist, Graduate Student Paper Competition, IEEE 11th. International Annual Conference for Engineering in Medicine and Biology
• Research Grant Scholarship, Graduate College, The University of Texas at Austin
• Conference Travel Award, Graduate Engineering Council, The University of Texas at Austin
• Professional Development Award, Graduate College, The University of Texas at Austin

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Number of Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Journal Articles: 8
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• Number of Refereed Conference Proceedings: 22

• Patent No. 5,609,158 awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on March 11, 1997
• Patent No. 6,743,227 awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on June 1, 2004
• Patent No. 6,936,047 awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on August 30, 2005
• Patent No. 6,972,016 awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on December 6, 2005
• Several other U.S. and international patent applications are in process.

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• Excellent references can be provided upon request.