Credentials

Academic record, professional appointments, and research credentials.

For hiring teams running candidate diligence, regulatory teams scoping submission support, and partners evaluating advisory engagements. Sources are linked where possible. Verifiable wherever stated.

Academic record

Twenty-plus peer-reviewed publications across human factors engineering, motion-based assessment of clinical training, surgical ergonomics, and machine learning applications in acute care. Verified via Google Scholar.

332
Google Scholar
citations
8
h-index
7
i10-index

For the full peer-reviewed publication list, see Publications or the Google Scholar profile.

Education

2015
Ph.D., Engineering Science
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Areas of specialization: Industrial Engineering · Human Factors & Ergonomics. Dissertation: nonlinear dynamic analysis of surgical motion. Advisor: T. Mali Ahmed Mahmoud.
2011
M.S., Industrial Engineering
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
2005
B.Eng., Electrical/Electronics Engineering
Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

Professional appointments

2026 –
present
Independent Consultant — Human Factors, Enterprise UX Research, Adoption
Self-directed practice based in Erie, Pennsylvania. Engagements span IEC 62366 / FDA HFE consulting, medical device usability research, ResearchOps build, and S/4HANA adoption advisory.
2016 –
present
Full Professor · Biomedical, Industrial and Systems Engineering (BISE) Department
Program Director · Industrial & Robotics Engineering
Gannon University · Erie, Pennsylvania
Founded the Industrial & Robotics Engineering program within the BISE Department; led ABET accreditation; supervised graduate student research on motion-based assessment of clinical training, surgical ergonomics, and machine learning in acute care.
2022 –
2026
UX Researcher, Fintech R&D
Amazon Web Services
Led discovery, requirements gathering, and adoption work across more than twenty AWS Fintech product teams. Built research operations spanning a forty-eight-thousand-person panel. Research informed roadmap decisions on platforms processing significant transaction volume.
2012 –
present
Co-founder & Principal Researcher
Neat Circle Research
Boutique applied-research consultancy focused on healthcare and manufacturing human factors engagements.

Selected research areas

Surgical
ergonomics
Motion-based assessment of clinician performance
Peer-reviewed work on inertial measurement, kinematic analysis, and statistical models for clinician training assessment. Studies have demonstrated statistically significant outcomes in surgeon muscle activation reduction (p < 0.05) under task-specific ergonomic interventions. Funded by NSF, DOE, AHA, and industry partners.
Clinical
workflow
Endotracheal intubation training and assessment
Multi-sensor and machine-learning approaches to objective performance evaluation in acute-care procedures. Active collaborations with Allegheny Health Network and St. Vincent's Health System. Selected publications: Journal of Medical Systems (2021), Simulation in Healthcare (2020), JACEP Open (2020).
Enterprise
UX
Mixed-methods research at scale in regulated B2B contexts
Three and a half years of applied work at AWS Fintech R&D supporting twenty-plus product teams. Research operations spanning a forty-eight-thousand-person panel, regulated-industry research compliance (PCI-DSS, internal AWS standards), and ResearchOps systems built from scratch.

Certifications & licenses

2023
UX Certification — Nielsen Norman Group
Verification ID: 1062332
2026
SAP Certified Implementation Consultant — S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, Financial Accounting (in progress)
Examination code C_S4CFI
Active
Pennsylvania Real Estate License
Active
Notary Public, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Areas of active study

Domains where I am building deeper expertise through coursework, certification programs, independent reading, and writing. Listed here for transparency rather than as held credentials.

2026
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition — Financial Accounting (C_S4CFI)
SAP Certified Implementation Consultant credential — examination preparation
Coverage spans General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, and Bank Accounting in the S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Financial Accounting scope. Target completion 2026.
2026 –
ongoing
SAP FICO Functional Foundations
Independent study program alongside the C_S4CFI certification
Working knowledge of the Controlling (CO) modules, banking automation patterns (Electronic Bank Statement, Lockbox, Automatic Payment Program, DMEE), and the third-party integration layer (Vertex, HighRadius, OpenText VIM, EDI/IDoc) — the conceptual structure of FICO from an industrial-engineering and adoption-research vantage point.
2026 –
ongoing
AI Product UX Research & Agentic Systems Evaluation
Frontier methodology development
Active research on evaluation methods for agentic AI products, conversational UX, multimodal interaction patterns, and the trust-calibration problem — extending the mixed-methods framework from AWS Fintech to LLM-mediated and agent-mediated interfaces.
2026 –
ongoing
Healthcare Workflow Informatics
Continuing applied research alongside ongoing Allegheny Health Network, St. Vincent's, and LECOM collaborations
EHR adoption patterns (Epic, Oracle Health, Athenahealth), clinical decision support and CDS Hooks, alert fatigue and clinician burnout, and the FHIR / HL7 integration landscape — extending the surgical ergonomics work into the clinical software adoption space.

Quantified record

Verifiable measures from the academic and industry record.

22+
AWS Fintech
product teams supported
48k+
research
panel participants
20+
peer-reviewed
publications
$1M+
research funding
(NSF, DOE, AHA, industry)

External profiles & affiliations

Availability for engagements

Currently accepting a small number of engagements per quarter in the following categories:

  • IEC 62366 and FDA Human Factors Engineering submission support
  • Medical device usability consulting (formative and summative studies, design control documentation)
  • Senior or fractional research advisory (B2B fintech, healthcare technology, frontier AI)
  • Healthcare workflow research (EHR adoption, CDS Hooks, clinician experience)
  • AI product UX research and agentic-system evaluation
  • SAP S/4HANA adoption consulting (selectively, where research-side rigor adds value to FICO programs)

For inquiries, see contact, or email ohu@pinohu.com.