Evan Macdonald

Experience

TELUS Health
Sr. Product Manager — Collaborative Health Record2023–Present
Product Manager — Remote Patient Monitoring2022–2023
Sr. Business Analyst / Product Manager — Home Health Monitoring2021–2022

Building software used by 20,000+ clinicians across 900+ clinics in Canada. Led the ground-up development of a next-generation Remote Patient Monitoring tool before moving to set the strategic roadmap for the Collaborative Health Record — TELUS Health's core EMR platform.

Digital Health Circle
Product Manager2019–2021

Directed the Innovation Sandbox, a service platform providing user-centric design, data analysis, and market intelligence to the Canadian digital health sector. Managed pilot programs for emerging healthcare products from discovery through to go-to-market.

Spartan Controls
Application Engineer2014–2017

Technical consultant for industrial instrumentation — control valves, regulators, and transmitters. Worked closely with clients to understand operational challenges and architect custom hardware solutions.

Research

Simon Fraser University2018–2020
M.A.Sc. Mechatronic Systems Engineering

Applied research at the intersection of hardware and machine learning. Designed a low-cost instrumented insole to classify human activity from foot pressure data, applying ML techniques including SVMs and CNNs. Work published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.

Differentiating Sitting, Standing, and Walking Through Regional Plantar Pressure CharacteristicsJournal of Biomechanical Engineering · 2020
Feet first: Developing instrumented insoles to prove association between weight bearing and foot painSFU Thesis · 2019