Troy Alva, Ph.D.

Experience

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  Care Ambulance Services, Inc.

  Sept 2014 - Feb 2016

  EMT
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  University of California, Riverside

  Sept 2015 - Sept 2021

  Provided teaching assistance to Dr. Justin Chartron in the following ways: ˚ Independently taught two one-hour discussions to a classroom of fifty undergraduate students. ˚ Assisted in the development of course curriculum including homework assignments, examinations, projects, and MATLAB tutorials useful for modeling and regression. ˚ Held independent office hours to clarify and expand upon material taught in lecture. ˚ Provided mentorship to students with interest in going to graduate school or industry. Show less

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    Jun 2017 - Sept 2021

  • Teaching Assistant for Bioengineering 101: Quantitative Biochemistry

    Sept 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Vice President of Bioengineering Interdepartmental Graduate Student Association

    Sept 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Mentorship Chair Bioengineering Interdepartmental Graduate Student Association

    Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  • Graduate Student Researcher

    Sept 2015 - Aug 2017
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  Palomar College

  Dec 2019 - now

  Adjunct Professor

  Created, taught, and managed an introductory course to R programming and data science. The course specializes in using R in ways that would be used industrially:- Advanced data structures- Data wrangling using different data manipulation libraries including data table and dplyr- Integration of R and database systems- Visualization principals and utilization with ggplot2- Documentation with RMarkdown- Collaboration using GitHub at the command line and in RStudio

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  Illumina

  Jan 2022 - now

  Support engineering lead in product development on project core teams. Responsibilities include:- Develop strategy/content for service and support plan- Assemble team of commercial support leaders in different regions to prepare field to support product at launch - Post-launch surveillance analysis- Develop design input and requirements- Serviceability review coordination, analysis and reporting- Development design reviewer- Technical document coordination and review- Field replaceable unit and tooling strategy, development and readiness- Product development process document input/reviewer- Creator of materials and tools to help field support troubleshoot issues Show less

  • Staff Development Engineer

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Senior Development Engineer

    Jan 2022 - Nov 2024