University Medical Center Groningen
2020 – present
Groningen, The Netherlands
Researcher, PhD Student
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Currently employed as a researcher at the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department at the UMCG during PhD/Doctoral candidacy.
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Developing the implementation of humanoid robots as interfaces for audiological testing.
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Programming of a NAO robot in Python and ROS to run various audiological tests.
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Created a webserver to communicate with NAO robot and act as a user interface to run audiological tests.
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Attended and presented at various robotics and audiological conferences world wide.
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Assisted in lecturing and grading for second-year bachelor course Human-Computer Interaction.
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Responsible for supervising bachelor and masters students during their internship or thesis projects.
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
2019
Groningen, The Netherlands
Teaching Assistant
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Assisted in running practical and tutorial sessions for Control Engineering course.
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Graded exams and assignments.
Wellinq
Summer 2019
Leek, The Netherlands
R&D Intern
- Designed a mechanically steerable catheter for endovascular procedures.
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In depth design and analysis process followed to development various actuation mechanisms.
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Produced Solidworks CAD renderings for prototype designs.
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Conducted FEM analyses on steerable catheter actuation designs.
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Provided in depth stakeholder analysis and risk assessment for final prototype.
Condriac Digital Agency
2015 – 2018
Johannesburg, South Africa
Full Stack Developer, Part time
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Worked on and maintained a Wordpress website for TATA South Africa.
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Responsible for the maintaining of client Wordpress websites.
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Developed iOS application for South African vaccination scheduling (project did not go live).
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Started front and back-end development on a web platform for visualising and reporting advertisement analytics built using Python, Django, Angular, MySQL, HTML, CSS and Javascript (project did not go live).
