12: Raymond Lam - Mechanical to Biomedical Engineering

That Thing I Did For A Year

This week we spoke to Raymond Lam from Mechanical Engineering about his work at Baylis Medical where he worked on developing products used in heart surgeries!

Notes

0:19 - How he ended up choosing mechanical engineering; taking shop class in high school and doing the George Brown machining workshop

4:09 - Why he was looking to do 16 months instead of for, some of the things he applied for and why he ended up going with Baylis

7:30 - What Baylis does, minimally invasive surgery

17:45 - Dealing with a quickly expanding team, getting to know people around on other teams and how the company culture facilitated that

29:02 - Getting hired for knowledge that you haven't studied in school

31:05 - Changes people have pointed out to him since doing PEY

38:45 - Contact information

Music by Shawn Lee