University Medical Center Groningen

 
2020 – present
 Groningen, The Netherlands
 
Researcher, PhD Student
  • Currently employed as a researcher at the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department at the UMCG during PhD/Doctoral candidacy.

  • Developing the implementation of humanoid robots as interfaces for audiological testing.

  • Programming of a NAO robot in Python and ROS to run various audiological tests.

  • Created a webserver to communicate with NAO robot and act as a user interface to run audiological tests.

  • Attended and presented at various robotics and audiological conferences world wide.

  • Assisted in lecturing and grading for second-year bachelor course Human-Computer Interaction.

  • Responsible for supervising bachelor and masters students during their internship or thesis projects.

 

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

 
2019
 Groningen, The Netherlands
 
Teaching Assistant
  • Assisted in running practical and tutorial sessions for Control Engineering course.

  • Graded exams and assignments.

 

Wellinq

 
Summer 2019
 Leek, The Netherlands
 
R&D Intern
  • Designed a mechanically steerable catheter for endovascular procedures.
  • In depth design and analysis process followed to development various actuation mechanisms.

  • Produced Solidworks CAD renderings for prototype designs.

  • Conducted FEM analyses on steerable catheter actuation designs.

  • Provided in depth stakeholder analysis and risk assessment for final prototype.

 

Condriac Digital Agency

 
2015 – 2018
Johannesburg, South Africa
 
Full Stack Developer, Part time
  • Worked on and maintained a Wordpress website for TATA South Africa.

  • Responsible for the maintaining of client Wordpress websites.

  • Developed iOS application for South African vaccination scheduling (project did not go live).

  • 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).