Malinda Elien

Malinda is a Principal Technical Project Manager who brings a systems engineering viewpoint to projects. Before joining Fresh, she served as a mechanical engineer and project manager at a variety of companies, with a focus in the industrial and medical device/laboratory equipment space. Her most recent project was working on durable medical equipment for reprocessing reusable plastic medical devices.

Malinda earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from MIT and is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional).

At home, Malinda loves spending time with her husband and two girls. In the past 4 years, they have visited 25 different countries together as a family.

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Product Development, Robotic Software Development, Software

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Product Development, Software

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