That Thing I Did For A Year

12: Raymond Lam - Mechanical to Biomedical Engineering

Episode Summary

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

Episode Notes

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