Resume for Roger McNichols
Roger J. McNichols
3626 Hugginsway St.
Pearland, Texas 77584
713/741-0111(Office) 281/412-5506(Home)
OBJECTIVE
An industry based position in research and development leading to management thereof.
EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Dissertation: Design and Testing of a Probe for Simultaneous Collection of
Optical Fluorescence and 31P NMR Spectra in vivo
1993-1994 Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station, Texas
Did not complete degree
1992 B.S. Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.S. Electrical Engineering 3.38/4.0
SAT: 630/750 ACT: 32 GRE: 600/800/800 MCAT: 37
Roger McNichols is a member of IEEE, IEEE-EMBS, BMES, ISMRM, SPIE, Tau Beta PI, Eta Kappa Nu, Mensa, and passed
the EIT exam in 1992.
Awarded a National Department of Education Graduate Fellowship, 1996.
Awarded Texas A&M Association of Former Students "Outstanding Doctoral Research" Award, 1999.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
1997-present VICE PRESIDENT - BIOTEX, INC.
Houston, Texas
As vice president and chief scientist of a small SBIR funded
medical device company, I am responsible for overseeing all aspects of R&D and for
working in an executive capacity to guide this company through its infancy. I have served
as PI or Co-PI on several grants including:
- "Development of a Novel Implantable Skin Port for Glucose Sensing" - NIH, NIDDK - $100,000 Co-PI
- "Development of a Closed Loop Thermal Therapy System" - NIH, NCI - $100,000 PI
- "A Novel Optical Probe for Detection of Oral Cancer" - NIH, NCI - $100,000 PI
- "A Fluorescence-based 'Smart Tattoo' for Detection of Glucose" - JDF - $100,000 PI
- "A Novel Interstitial Fluid Transcutaneous Access Port for Glucose Monitoring" - JDF - $200,000 Co-PI
- "Polarization Backscatter Imaging for Standoff Detection of Biological Weapons" - Department of Army Contract - $50,000 PI
- "Cooled-tip Laser Catheter for Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias" - NIH, NHBLI - $100,000 Co-PI
- "Development of a Closed Loop Thermal Therapy System (Phase II)" - NIH, NCI - $765,000 PI
- "Interactive Image Guided Thermal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer" - NIH, NIA - $225,000 PI
- "Implantable Fluorescent Polymer for Hypoglycemia Alarm" - NIH, NIDDK - $100,000 PI
- "Improved Method for Laser Tattoo Removal" - NIH, NISD - $100,000 PI
- "Fluorescently-tagged Implantable Polymer Sensor: A 'Smart Tattoo' for Glucose Sensing" - JDF - $125,000 PI
- "Applicator for Laser Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux (GERD)" - NIH, NIDDK - $100,000 Co-PI
- "Cooled-tip Lasser Catheter for Ablation of Cardiac Arrythmias (Phase II)" - NIH, NHBLI - $750,000 Co-PI
Total: $2.91 Million
1997-
1998 ASSISTANT LECTURER - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
- Taught BIEN 308 - Biomedical Electronics
- Taught BIEN 309 - Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineers
- Taught BIEN 441/442 - Biomedical Engineering Senior Design
1992-1997 RESEARCH ASSISTANT - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
- Constructed three wavelength closed-loop polarimeter for measurement
of aqueous glucose concentrations
- Built several NIR spectrometers for measurements of aqueous analyte
consentrations in vitro
- Preliminary research and experimentation toward use of thin-film
resistive pressure sensors for measurement of intercranial pressure
- Construction of Ti:Saphire laser based optical trap
- Magnetic resonance imaging experiments including preliminary attempts
to track laser coagulation
- Exploration of modulated laser energy as a means of spatially selective
NMR pulses
1995-1996 GRADUATE ASSISTANT TO NSF-CDRG - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
- Aided in the development and administration of a new curriculum in
biomedical optics
- Planned, purchased, and built a biomedical optics teaching laboratory in the Bioengineering department.
1992-1995 TEACHING ASSISTANT - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
Aided in the instruction of courses in
- Numerical Methods
- Clinical Engineering
- Physiological Control Systems
1994 TEXAS A&M MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
College Station, Texas
- Instrumented an internal combustion engine converted to run on compressed natural gas as
part of a research project
- Helped develop a fuzzy-logic based controller to track and maintain a
desired air/fuel mixture using compressed natural gas.
Summer 1993 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH
Galveston, Texas
- Constructed NIR spectrometers with a fiber-optic remote sensing
probe for measuring blood glucose in vivo in dogs
- Used multivariate calibration routines for analysis of spectroscopic data
1989-1992 MANAGER, AREA COMPUTER SERVICES
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Administrated three computing facility sites serving over 3,000 students and
managed a staff of approximately 20 employees
- Worked as a computer lab monitor and performed routine maintenance
Summer 1990 SALESMAKER - RADIO SHACK
Winter 1991 Toledo, Ohio
Worked in retail sales. Responsibilities included
opening/closing store, preparing daily reports.
1999-present KEYBOARDIST for the Throwaway People rock band
College Station, Texas
PUBLICATIONS
"In Situ Monitoring of Analyte Concentrations during Cell Culture" Applied Spectroscopy (In Review)
"Optical Glucose Sensing in Biological Media: An Overview" Journal of Biomedical Optics. (Accpeted for Publication)
"Magnetic Resonance Guided Feedback Control of Laser Thermal Therapy" Proceedings of the ISMRM Denver, CO. April 2000
"Simultaneous Optical Fluorescence and 31P NMR Spectroscopy in vivo" Proceedings of the ISMRM. Philadelphia, PA. May 22-28, 1999.
"Simplified Doubly Resonanc Coil with Dual Inductive Feeds for in vivo NMR Spectroscopy" Proceedings of the ISMRM. Philadelphia, PA. May 22-28, 1999.
"A Doubly-tuned Inductively Coupled Resonator for in vivo NMR Spectroscopy" Review of Scientific Instruments. Vol. 70(8):3454-6. 1999
"Simultaneous Collection of Optical and NMR Spectra in vivo" IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineeering. (In Review)
"Development of a Non-invasive Polarimetric Glucose Sensor" IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society Newsletter. Vol. 12(2):30-31. 1998 (Invited Paper)
"Development of a Probe for Simultaneous Collection of Optical Fluorescence and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra in vivo" Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS. Chicago, Illinois. October 1997
"Development of a Probe for Simultaneous Collection of 31P NMR and INDO-1
Fluorescence Spectra for in vivo Investigations" Proceedings of the
5th Annual ISMRM. Vancouver, Brittish Columbia. April 1997.
"Simultaneous Collection of 31P NMR and INDO-1 Optical Fluorescence Spectra" Proceedings of the HSEMB. Houston, Texas. February 1997.
"Linear Superposition of Optical Rotatory Dispersion for the Detection of Glucose" Proceedings
of the IEEE-EMBS. San Diego, California. October 1992
"Multispectral Detection of Glucose Using a Single Pockel's Cell" Optical Engineering.
August 1993
SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT EXPERIENCE
Optics
- ALTO 8W 980 nm Diode Laser
- Spectra-Physics 171 30-Watt Argon gas laser
- Coherent 890 Ti:Saphire tunable NIR laser
- Trimedyne 100-Watt clinical Nd:YAG laser
- SPEX Fluorolog-2 fluorescence spectrometer and DM-1B spectroscopy computer
- SPEX 270M spectrograph programming language
- UDT/Graseby two and six channel optometers
- Perkin-Elmer Lambda-3B and 552 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers
- ATI Mattson Galaxy and Infinity FTIR spectrometers
- Perkin-Elmer Mid-IR grating spectrophotometer
- HP 8145 programmable fiber-optic attenuator
- Conoptics Pockel's effect electro-optic modulator and driver
Magnetic Resonance
- GE-CSI 2 Tesla imaging/spectroscopy system
- Tecmag Mac-NMR kit magnetic resonance console
- Varian SISCO imaging/spectroscopy console
- Varian EM-360 CW NMR spectrometer
- JEOL FX-90Q resistive magnet NMR spectrometer
- Various RF electronics
- Construction of NMR and MRI coils
- HP 4195 network analyzer
Computers
- C/C++, BASIC, FORTRAN, http, and Assembly Language programming
- PC, Windows, Macintosh, Unix and Linux
- Unix system administration including SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.3, 2.5.1, and 2.6, and Linux
- X-windows programming under Unix and Linux.
- Data acquisition (D/A, A/D, DIO) hardware including IO-level programming
in both Linux and DOS.
- Proficient at Matlab, Minitab, MathCad
- Familiar with Microsoft Office and Applixware Products
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Writing, performing, and listening to music. Computers. Camping and hiking. Boating and water-skiing.
REFERENCES
- Dr. Gerard L. Cote', Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Steven M. Wright, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Sohi Rastegar, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Ashok Gowda, President, BioTex, Inc.
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