1991 Relsys, Oracle (Alcon, Spectramed)

Dave Bajaj and I worked at Baxter, but the company had a cost cutting measure that eliminated the consultants. Dave Bajaj and I worked at Baxter, but the company had a cost cutting measure that eliminated the consultants. Dave started his own biomed consulting company: Relsys, and I was his first employee, working out of the spare room in his house, and helped with the demo that got him his first contracts (Alcon and Spectramed) beating out much larger companies. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-10-07

Alcon

Alcon Research, Ltd. 15800 Alton Parkway Irvine, CA 92618

The first contract around XMas of 1990 was with Alcon. They wanted a Gemini / Infiniti Laser eye surgery instrument. It allowed ultrasonic phacoemulsification, ultrasound with oscillation, and liquification of cataracts, if I remember my devices correctly.

What I remember is crunching in his spare bedroom and working with him regularly on each advancement/improvement. He gave me a lot of creative control (he was good like that), so the product evolved extremely quickly and we beat out some much larger competitors for the contract, that had large teams of people working on it. (I got a fully working interface in a couple of weeks, on a completely new device, creating/extending my own graphic libraries as we go. and we just kept tuning it and adding screens).

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SpectraMED

SpectraMED Ventura California 93002

There was another contract with SpectraMED that I helped Dave/Relsys on. I don't remember this one as very much. I was more working from home at this point, and just knocking stuff out that I was asked to. I remember it was another medical instrument, I think a kind of infusion pump? I have the invoices from billing my hours on both of these. But I tend to burn (delete) documentation and stuff like that, as I don't want to have anything proprietary after a contract is over.

Dave Bajaj

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Through life and work, I've met many different people and made long friendships, and short ones. One person I worked with at Baxter Edwards was Dave Bajaj. Dave was a soft-spoken Indian guy, who was pedigreed (M.S. in C.S.), easy to get along with, and smart. He also worked hard and took his job and productivity, seriously. I don't know if he was a mentor, idol, or just an example, but there were a lot of things that I admired.

🗒️ Note:
My move to commercial actually turned out to be some dark years for me. I'd got a bad virus, agoraphobia, and my world collapsed to Work, Karate, Home. This sapped confidence, motivation and mojo both personally and professionally. I lost the crazed coder super-power for a while, and lost my enlightened zen peace and balance. I got it and got it back a couple times in life.

Oracle

I wanted to do commercial software and was moving on to other companies, instead of just contracting to Dave. And Dave had a team of contractors implementing what I'd designed. So I'd kind of moved on, and lost touch. Eventually, decades later, Dave sold his company to Oracle. I was always really happy to hear that he turned his idea into a multinational corporation/division, with offices in multiple countries.

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