# Garrett Chinsomboon > Quality Engineering Manager @ SandboxAQ Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/garrettchinsomboon With an engineering background, Garrett brings his passion for the product quality and patient safety to the medical technology industry. Having had product ownership and led cross-functional teams, Garrett offers valuable insights from both a consumer and manufacturer's perspective. ## Work Experience ### Quality Engineering Manager @ SandboxAQ Jan 2025 – Present ### Quality Engineering Lead @ Verily Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 Lead hardware/software/system design quality engineer supporting the development and launch of the Verily Retinal Camera. Provide medical device product development expertise for Verily's next generation AI/ML driven products. Gained 510(k) approval (K242508) for the next generation Verily retinal camera; enabling AI retinal grading. Management of Quality Engineering resources to support medical device product development. ### Staff Design Quality Engineer @ Verb Surgical Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Senior Design Quality Engineer @ Verb Surgical Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Create design and use-case Risk Management Files for Endoscope and Visualization subsystems in accordance with ISO14971 to ensure patient and public safety; driving key hardware and software requirements back into the design cycle • Provide Design Control guidance and quality insights to the project team in making important project design decisions while collaborating with both Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon) and Google (Verily) partners; ensuring compliance to applicable regulatory requirements and design standards • Subject Matter Expert for Endoscope and Visualization in defending the Design History File (DHF) in audits from notified bodies; contributing to successful audit outcome and minimizing interruptions to business operations • Collaborate to building the Quality System for a small medical device start-up; assessing gaps, creating procedures and getting buy-in from company-wide stakeholders as the company continues to grow rapidly and drive towards product launch • Support the design verification strategy and testing activities for Endoscope and Visualization subsystems; partnering with the cross-functional team to achieve crucial project milestones in a timely manner ### Senior Design Control Engineer – Project Lead @ Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Lead a team of engineers and manage project workflow and timelines while providing crucial product and process-specific training to develop team expertise; efficiently achieving rigorous project milestones with limited resources while shortening cycle times • Make critical product and project decisions as sole Quality System stakeholder for ophthalmologic product suite; ensuring top product safety functionality and competitive advantage in market place • Steer the cross-functional team in Design Control through the R&D process; ensuring product compliance from development to manufacturing, allowing smooth product launch • Spearhead the Risk Management activities for both pre-launch and in-market medical devices by assessing product risks and patient safety to ensure appropriate mitigation are implemented; enabling new products launch with acceptable patient risk level while meeting regulatory requirements and allowing in-market products to continue operations ### Senior Design Control Engineer – Project Lead @ Abbott Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Abbott Medical Optics was acquired by Johnson and Johnson in February 2017. Please see roles and responsibilities above. ### Quality System Engineer - New Product Introduction (NPI) @ Abbott Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • Leveraged in-depth product knowledge to conduct reviews throughout the development cycle of the ophthalmologic LASIK system and software product while working closely with internal development and offshore teams; ensuring uninterrupted product development progression and documentation requirements are met per regulations • Responsible for the Change Control process of both the pre-launch and in-market medical devices to ensure that design changes are sufficiently assessed, approved and managed; allowing product production to continue without disruptions while also minimizing operations and patient impacts ### Manufacturing Engineer - New Product Introduction (NPI) @ Keysight Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area • Entrusted with the engineering responsibility for a family line of Performance Network Analyzers (PNA-L N523x) and Printed Circuit Assembly (PCA) board; making significant engineering decisions to improve the overall quality, reduce costs, attain high yield and, optimize production time & resources • Executed NPI process to introduce the next generation Agilent modular Network Analyzer from R&D labs into the market place, developed customer specifications, evaluated performance through different environmental conditions and implemented functionality tests in manufacturing; guaranteeing performance, competitiveness in the market place and assisting in product sales • Coordinated a cross-functional team, including Marketing and Firmware engineers, in enhancing instrument hard specifications; directly increasing product competitiveness in field and contributing to customer wins • Designed instrument test processes with LabView instrument control code in order to identify and address failures early, improving yield and saving countless hours of valuable production time and resources • Redesigned circuits, with Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) circuit designer and simulator, and carries out various hardware evaluation projects for cost saving and reliability purposes • Performed hands-on fault analysis on failed instruments to arrive at the root cause and implements engineering corrective actions; ensuring quality and customer satisfaction moving forward ### Manufacturing Engineer - New Product Introduction (NPI) @ Agilent Technologies Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Part of Agilent Technologies became Keysight Technologies in 2014. Please see roles and responsibilities above. ### Cisco Choice Engineering Intern @ Cisco Systems Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 • Constructed test beds consisting of Catalyst 4k and 6K switches, 4400 Series WLC and various Access Point models; utilized for client interoperability testing and wireless roaming certification • Automated wireless connectivity for mobile & tablet devices to generate traffic over the network; deprecating tedious and time-consuming manual testing while reducing test time to mere seconds • Produced a technical user manual of the written test software for wireless connectivity across all security, encryption and authentications; now a prime resource in the company database for further expansion to the current test bed configuration ### Cisco Choice Engineering Intern @ Cisco Systems Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 • Conducted tests and produced Unit Test Documents for the Command Line Interface (CLI) commands in the new Cisco Operating System (IOSd); now stored in the company confidential database and becomes a basis for further testing • Enrolled and completed the IOS Configuration for Engineers training, reserved exclusively for Cisco engineers, resulting in the ability to program switch and router hardware • Assisted and began carrying out tests on IOSd crashinfo for NSSTG Business Unit, worked closely with crash files and coredump files, contributed to creation of Unit Test Document ### Teaching Assistant for MATLAB @ Georgia Institute of Technology - College of Computing Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Atlanta, GA • Managed and lead recitations while facilitating group discussions to review course materials; observed students’ increasing understanding of subject matter throughout the semester • Assisted individual students during three weekly office hour sessions through dialogue and problem solving abilities, increased students' proficiency and understanding of MATLAB • Created midterm and final exams by compiling topical question samples; also graded and proctored exams, designed challenging questions and facilitated successful exam sessions ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gchinsomboon --- Source: https://flows.cv/garrettchinsomboon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/garrettchinsomboon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05