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Allan Henslee, PhDResume (PDF)

Austin, Texas · hybrid or remote

Allan Henslee, PhD

Medtech product and innovation leader, using AI to accelerate development.

From founding R&D head on a robotic surgical device, through FDA De Novo and first-in-human, to small-business owner using AI agents to speed up how the business runs.

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Allan Henslee
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Allan Henslee and his wife at a Texas Longhorns football game
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Proof

  • 11

    Companies I've built software for with AI agents

  • Over$3.6M

    Non-dilutive SBIR funding, as PI on four NSF and NIH awards

  • 10

    Patents granted worldwide, including 5 US patents as co-inventor

  • 21

    Peer-reviewed papers, 7 from the surgical robot work

  • 100+

    SBIR/STTR proposals scored as an NIH grant reviewer

  • 30+

    Automated workflows built for small businesses. Clear ROI.

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What I'm looking for

From early 2027, I'm looking for a full-time role at a medtech, diagnostics or health-tech company. I want to get back to building new things in healthcare, and to bring the AI systems I've been building since mid-2025 into regulated work.

Roles
AI, digital or data lead · product or program lead · innovation and new ventures
Scope
Senior hands-on role or a small team
Where
Austin (hybrid) or fully remote

What I bring

Medtech

  • Taking a new device from company start to FDA De Novo and first-in-human
  • Clinical study design and in vivo testing
  • Patents, and early-stage funding through SBIR (PI on four awards)
  • Judging new ventures: 100+ SBIR/STTR proposals scored as an NIH grant reviewer

AI

  • Marketing, operations and SEO analyst agents built to recommend, never act, plus an AI-written weekly briefing; a person decides what to act on
  • An AI receptionist that answers web chat, calls and texts day and night from one sourced playbook, and hands off to a person
  • Outreach agents that research each prospect and draft a sourced first email for a person to approve
  • 30 automated jobs replacing manual admin: missed payments, partner credits, commissions, follow-ups, lead scoring
  • One data platform joining the business's sales, marketing and operations data, with MCP servers that give Claude read-only tools

Where the two meet: design controls applied to AI. That means approval gates, audit trails, guards in code, and verification before release.

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Favorite projects

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Review queue in the Party On Delivery back end, with made-up data: an open shortage card with Approve and Reject buttons above an approved cardFake data

01Party On Delivery · 2025–now

One platform for orders, the warehouse and reporting, with AI that recommends

Grew the storefront into one Next.js app for orders, the warehouse and reporting, on one Postgres database with 30 scheduled jobs. Detectors and analyst agents recommend; a person decides what to act on.

  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • MCP
  • Claude Code
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iotaMotion home page: Advancing CI surgery beyond human capability

02iotaMotion · 2016–2024

Taking a surgical robot from founding to FDA De Novo

Founding employee and R&D head on a robotic system for cochlear-implant surgery, from company start to FDA De Novo authorization in 2021 and a first-in-human trial. PI on four SBIR awards, over $3.6M.

  • FDA De Novo
  • Design controls
  • SBIR
  • First-in-human
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Robots & Bacon home page: Every inquiry answered, every quote out in minutes

03Robots & Bacon · 2024–now

AI that answers customers for owner-run businesses

Robots & Bacon is my part-time consulting practice. I help owner-run service businesses answer their customers faster with AI. Client work includes marketing and clinician outreach for OKO Snooze, a Class I medical device startup, and custom quotes in minutes for a party-boat company, from prices the AI can't make up.

  • Claude
  • Guardrails
  • Client work
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Timeline

  1. 2002 – 2004

    Where I'm from

    Texas Hill Country

    Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science

    Raised in the Hill Country. Finished high school at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, where juniors and seniors take college courses at the University of North Texas.

  2. 2008

    School

    UT Austin

    BS, Biomedical Engineering

    Biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, class of 2008.

  3. 2008 – 2014

    PhD

    Rice University

    PhD, Bioengineering, 2013

    Managed DoD-funded research for DARPA and AFIRM while earning the PhD. Interned in Rice's Office of Technology Transfer, co-founded and ran Cellula Enterprises, a Rice imaging startup, then did a postdoc at IORE.

  4. 2014 – 2016

    Industry

    Alcon

    Business Continuity / Product Engineer

    Authored 30+ validation protocols for process and material qualification, and managed 10+ supplier projects on safety, quality and supply-chain risk.

  5. 2016 – 2024

    Startup

    iotaMotion

    Founding employee · Director of R&D

    Led product development on a robotic system for cochlear-implant surgery, from company start to FDA De Novo authorization in 2021 and a first-in-human trial. PI on four SBIR awards, over $3.6M, and an NIH SBIR/STTR reviewer since 2020.

  6. 2023 – now

    Small business

    Party On Delivery

    Owner/operator

    Started it in 2023 and ran it full time when iotaMotion moved to Minnesota in 2024. Rebuilt it on one data platform with AI analysts on top: 1,500+ commits of my own, over 80% of the hand-written ones.

  7. Now

    Now

    Production AI, back to healthcare

    Builder and part-time AI consultant

    Building production AI with Claude Code since mid-2025: agents, data platforms and guardrailed tools. Next, I want to bring that back to healthcare.

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Research and patents

21peer-reviewed papers

iotaMotion era · 7

Rice era · 14

5US patents

10 granted worldwide, in the US, Europe, China and Australia.

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Personal

Outside work I read a lot, swim and do woodworking. Father of three.

Allan Henslee with his wife and their three kids on the couch
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Contact

allan.henslee@gmail.com
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