BSCI QSR MDDr zzzzz......
My new job involves wading through an acronym soup. The big ones are in the title.
BSCI= Boston Scientific. This is the internal abbreviation, and my new email's domain as well.
QSR= Quality System Regulations. This is the FDA et al.
MDDr= the Revised Medical Device Directive. The original MDD is the EU's medical device regulations, in brief, and after running with them for a handful of years the EU decided to revise them. The revisions go into effect next year.
My new job is more MDDr than QSR. I'm working on updating all the BSCI regulatory submissions for the MDDr; we've a soft deadline of the end of the year, and a hard (i.e., updated or stop selling stuff until it's updated) deadline in March. Some of our products are allowed to be bridged, or updated in phases; others have to have full updates from square one.
It's interesting and detail-oriented, but not very exciting- the zzzzzz part of the title. It's work, though, and I'm happy to be doing it. The facilities are nice, and it's good to work at a building with amenities- free coffee/cocoa, hot water in the bathrooms for handwashing, daily trash pickups, that kind of thing. It's amazing how the economies of the final days at Transoma have rubbed off on me :)
On the home front- Alex's funeral was Monday. It was a nice, dignified affair; the music was excellent, and the tributes bittersweet. We actually got to talk to some of his former grad students and colleagues- it was really cool to hear them talk about him as he was in his prime.
In a mildly escapist fashion, Ethan has been immersed in "Dragon Age"- he's almost played through it once, and is already talking about repeating it as a different class; the writing is superb, and the art good too.
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday party. I'm baking cream puffs as I type, and we'll fill them with pumpkin ice cream and whipped cream, then drizzle them with chocolate. It should be a nice party. :)
BSCI= Boston Scientific. This is the internal abbreviation, and my new email's domain as well.
QSR= Quality System Regulations. This is the FDA et al.
MDDr= the Revised Medical Device Directive. The original MDD is the EU's medical device regulations, in brief, and after running with them for a handful of years the EU decided to revise them. The revisions go into effect next year.
My new job is more MDDr than QSR. I'm working on updating all the BSCI regulatory submissions for the MDDr; we've a soft deadline of the end of the year, and a hard (i.e., updated or stop selling stuff until it's updated) deadline in March. Some of our products are allowed to be bridged, or updated in phases; others have to have full updates from square one.
It's interesting and detail-oriented, but not very exciting- the zzzzzz part of the title. It's work, though, and I'm happy to be doing it. The facilities are nice, and it's good to work at a building with amenities- free coffee/cocoa, hot water in the bathrooms for handwashing, daily trash pickups, that kind of thing. It's amazing how the economies of the final days at Transoma have rubbed off on me :)
On the home front- Alex's funeral was Monday. It was a nice, dignified affair; the music was excellent, and the tributes bittersweet. We actually got to talk to some of his former grad students and colleagues- it was really cool to hear them talk about him as he was in his prime.
In a mildly escapist fashion, Ethan has been immersed in "Dragon Age"- he's almost played through it once, and is already talking about repeating it as a different class; the writing is superb, and the art good too.
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday party. I'm baking cream puffs as I type, and we'll fill them with pumpkin ice cream and whipped cream, then drizzle them with chocolate. It should be a nice party. :)