Techna
Michael Andersen is a Technical Analyst at Techna Institute, where Michael develops, maintains, and deploys projects focused on medical image viewing and analysis. Prior experience includes a Practicum Student role at Yalty, building a transactional messaging system, and another Practicum Student position at Exclusive Dry Cleaners Inc., where Michael developed an API and updated applications. Michael's experience also includes an Agile Developer Internship at SAP, contributing to APIs and microservices for the SAP Cloud Analytics Product. Earlier roles include working as a Retail Clerk at Albion Books, handling all bookstore operations, and serving as a Non-Response Follow Up Enumerator for Statistics Canada, collecting census data. Michael holds a diploma in Computer Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from The University of British Columbia.
Techna
Techna is an accelerator of the University Health Network focused on ushering the development and exploitation of innovations for improved healthcare delivery and outcomes. OUR MISSION Techna is designed to shorten the time interval from ideation and development to application of the healthcare innovations for the benefit of patients and the health care system. It stimulates and facilitates the innovation cycle through a continuum of clinically driven solutions, technology & process development, and translational research. Techna represents a paradigm shift towards demand-driven activities, and the organizational alignment of the needs of the hospital and the research enterprise