Vecna
Ivana B. has a diverse work experience spanning different industries and roles. Starting in 2010, Ivana worked as a Living Laboratory Intern at the Boston Museum of Science, where they interpreted exhibits and studies for visitors and summarized research results. In 2011, they were a Research Intern at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, where they designed and executed experiments on language comprehension in macaque monkeys. Ivana then moved on to work as a Student Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where they designed pilot experiments and recruited participants for various studies.
In 2012, Ivana took on multiple roles, including Innovation Lab Consultant at Hakuhodo, where they contributed to global branding campaigns and brainstormed revitalization activities for stricken areas; and Content Creator and Consultant at JogNog, where they performed user research and authored questions for an EdTech platform.
From 2013 to 2017, Ivana worked at Vecna, first as a Business Analyst and Product Owner, managing product development and redesigning patient self-service products. Later, they became a Product Manager, overseeing enterprise resource planning and patient solutions platforms. Ivana focused on reducing maintenance issues, delivering key capabilities to customers, and achieving product certification.
From 2017 to 2019, Ivana returned to Vecna Robotics as a Project Manager and Data Analyst, collaborating on grant proposals and deploying autonomous logistic robots at Fortune 500 warehouses and manufacturing facilities.
Overall, Ivana has demonstrated skills in product management, project management, data analysis, user research, and experimental design across various industries and disciplines.
Ivana B. has a Bachelor's Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to their degree, they have also obtained certifications in Program Management Foundations from LinkedIn in April 2019 and Professional Scrum Product Owner I from Scrum.org in June 2014.
Vecna
Vecna develops and markets innovative health care solutions in the fields of infection control, patient safety, patient self-service, and robotics.The US CDC estimates that 1.7 million patients are infected every year by health care acquired infections with 99,000 dying from such infections. The aim of Vecna's QC PathFinder infectioncontrol software is to magnify the efforts of hospital infection preventionists through increased data visibility, automated alerts, and fast reporting both internally and to external public health agencies.Vecna's patient self-service line includes health care kiosks and patient portals. These solutions automate many previously manual workflows including check-in, registration, bill pay, and surveys. A kiosk integrated with vitals capture devices can capture weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and blood oxygenation. The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) was created to extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield. It is a humanoid robot designed to lift up to 500 lbs and has been developed for the U.S. Department of Defense.