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ALI MIRMOHAMMADI

Seven Hills,NSW

Summary

Experienced Technical Lead with a strong background in managing product lifecycle activities for complex systems, and leading new product development. Adept at leading multidisciplinary teams, overseeing V&V activities, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Skilled in risk management, requirements management, prototyping, and hands-on engineering techniques. Known for excellent communication, documentation, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement within heavily regulated environments.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Engineer - Systems

Rapid Response Revival
Riverwood
12.2024 - Current
  • Lead the cross-functional integration of hardware, software, and firmware components, ensuring system performance met both clinical requirements and regulatory standards.
  • Maintained end-to-end system traceability ensuring alignment between user needs, system requirements, test protocols, and risk controls.
  • Integration of mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software systems, ensuring a cohesive and high-performing product development.
  • Designed and optimized system-level and user interfaces, improving device usability, user experience, and interaction with clinical users.
  • Ensure end-to-end traceability between user needs, system requirements, design outputs, and verification protocols in alignment with quality system standards.
  • Leading the design, development, and regulatory MDR submission of the CellAED product.
  • Introduce requirements management workflows that improved verification efficiency and reduced design rework during V&V activities.
  • Developing SOPs and work instructions for risk management and requirements management, enhancing compliance and process consistency.
  • Played a key role in launching the product in France, directly contributing to increased market visibility and investor interest.
  • Improved verification efficiency and reduced rework through structured traceability and risk-driven test prioritization.
  • Leading a small team of engineers and established best practices in systems and V&V engineering, improving team productivity and technical rigor.

R&D Systems Engineer

Nanosonics
North Ryde
10.2021 - 11.2024
  • Lead the cross-functional integration of hardware, software, and firmware components, ensuring system performance met both clinical requirements and regulatory standards.
  • Lead and coordinate Life Cycle Engineering activities and take on the product technical ownership.
  • Technical lead and assist multidisciplinary teams in meeting project milestones and quality goals.
  • Risk and safety management, triaging product issues, and performing risk assessments on field issues and product improvements.
  • Requirement management and ensuring product compliance with the applicable standards, including ISO 13485, ISO 60601, ISO 14971, ISO 11140, etc.
  • Applied structured problem-solving and data trend analysis to resolve product issues, drive root cause investigations, and improve complaint handling.
  • Assess design changes, deviations, non-conformities, and EMC compliances, and review protocols and reports.
  • Review systems and the cross-functional team documentation and provide constructive feedback to the multidisciplinary R&D team.
  • Analyzed V&V outcomes and field feedback to identify patterns and areas for improvement in system design and test coverage.
  • Organize and manage the product issue register and improve the issue register system across the company.
  • Make the market-leading product of the company portable by leading UPS project.
  • Lead design and development of Chemical Indicator project.
  • Lead design and development of additional features and accessories for the trophon device including DICOM, Wireless Accessory, etc.
  • Address the customer needs through product modification projects.
  • Develop an effective and agile relationship between R&D department and Sustaining Engineering and Supplier Quality Team.

R&D Systems Engineer

Memjet Technology
North Ryde
09.2018 - 10.2021
  • Deep understanding of the projects and product at the system and sub-system level and taking on the technical ownership.
  • Provide technical support and guidance during the product development from ideation to product launch.
  • Develop and prototype electromechanical assemblies as part of the new product development process and using tools such as ANSYS and SolidWorks.
  • Design and execute experiments and manage to reduce the risks of the product development.
  • Analyse the results, draw conclusions, and write comprehensive reports to guide the product development.
  • Integrate closely with a multidisciplinary team comprising to leverage domain expertise directly applicable to design, implementation, verification activities.
  • Review documents including proposed design changes and provide technical feedback.
  • Develop an innovative, low-cost solution for evaporation issue of the company product and mitigate the risks.
  • Improve the thermal ejection mechanism in the printhead by performing functional analyses of the existing technology.
  • Design, develop, validate, and verify a new aerosol management system, mitigate the product risks, and produce relevant documents.
  • Design and develop a system architecture, process the workflow, and parameter optimization of a new humidification system, and create relevant documents.

PhD Candidate in Fluid Engineering

University of Sydney
Sydney
02.2015 - 09.2018
  • Design a novel sorption heat pump system used for cooling, heating, and heat storage.
  • Evaluate the effect of different working fluids in refrigeration system and their risk assessment.
  • Improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption in thermal energy systems by using nanofluids.
  • Improve the heat transfer performance of a double-pipe heat exchanger.
  • Mentoring master and honours students in their research projects.
  • Design a laboratory test setup and evaluate thermal performance of different working fluids and quantify their thermal performance.
  • Develop a combined macro- and micro-scale simulation to evaluate the performance of the heat exchangers.
  • Develop new correlations for high-precision prediction of nanofluids' thermal behaviour in refrigeration systems.
  • Conduct the numerical simulation using LAMMPS and ANSYS Fluent to compare the results with experimental data.
  • Publish technical high-impact journal papers.
  • Develop a novel data modeling method for predicting thermal dynamics.

Mechanical Design Engineer

SaltX Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
02.2012 - 02.2015
  • Functional analyses to improve the performance of the solar heating/cooling and energy storage system.
  • Design new prototypes, conduct experiments, validation, and verification of the products.
  • Integrate company products with different applications in the market based on the customer needs.
  • Development of the systems architectures and optimization process parameters to ensure reliable system performance.
  • CAD drawing, CFD analyses, prepare, and reviewing technical documents.
  • Provide technical support as needed.
  • Design a new heat exchanger and installation of the solar panels for SunCool project.
  • Boost the heating in ovens and decrease the heating time significantly in collaboration with General Electric (GE).
  • Decrease the fuel consumption of Caterpillar construction cars by designing and optimizing a new cooling system.
  • Design and optimization of a plate and shell heat exchanger to improve the cooling power of the system.
  • Optimization of the system and reduce costs and save energy.

Mechanical Design Engineer

Pooyan Gostaran
Shahrood, Iran
02.2009 - 06.2010
  • Energy audit and building services.
  • Installation of HVAC systems for small residential buildings.
  • Contribute to design documentation, traceability, and V&V activities in compliance with applicable standards.
  • Report writing and presentations.
  • Building Services Design.
  • Waste heat recovery system design using CO2 power cycle.
  • Reduce energy costs for the customers.
  • Design and propose new energy management measures.
  • Train TRNSYS system simulation software to the team.

Education

PhD - Mechanical Engineering

University of Sydney
Sydney
09.2018

Master - Energy Systems

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Sweden
01.2012

Bachelor - Mechanical Engineering

Shahrood University of Technology
Iran
01.2009

Skills

  • Product prototyping
  • Risk management
  • Requirements management
  • Product design
  • Effective communication
  • Project management
  • Programming languages: Python, C, Java
  • Finite element analysis (FEA)
  • CAD software proficiency
  • Microsoft Office Suite expertise

References

Available upon request.

Awards And Honours

  • Certified Professional Mechanical Engineer by Engineers Australia
  • University of Sydney International Scholarship
  • University of Sydney Engineering and Information Technologies Scholarship
  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Scholarship

Professional Overview

Experienced Technical Lead with a strong background in managing product lifecycle activities for complex systems and leading new product development. Adept at leading multidisciplinary teams, overseeing V&V activities, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Skilled in risk management, requirements management, prototyping, and hands-on engineering techniques. Known for excellent communication, documentation, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement within heavily regulated environments.

Timeline

Senior Product Engineer - Systems

Rapid Response Revival
12.2024 - Current

R&D Systems Engineer

Nanosonics
10.2021 - 11.2024

R&D Systems Engineer

Memjet Technology
09.2018 - 10.2021

PhD Candidate in Fluid Engineering

University of Sydney
02.2015 - 09.2018

Mechanical Design Engineer

SaltX Technology
02.2012 - 02.2015

Mechanical Design Engineer

Pooyan Gostaran
02.2009 - 06.2010

PhD - Mechanical Engineering

University of Sydney

Master - Energy Systems

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Bachelor - Mechanical Engineering

Shahrood University of Technology
ALI MIRMOHAMMADI