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Ted Farrell

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (a Johnson & Johnson Company)

Biography

Ted Farrell is Group Director, Systems R&D at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (a Johnson & Johnson company), responsible for development of new in-vitro diagnostic analyzers. OCD's analyzers are used in clinical laboratories and transfusion medicine centers throughout the world. Since coming to OCD in 2000, Ted has focused on the application of systems engineering approaches to development of medical diagnostic equipment. Before coming to J&J, Ted was technical director and senior program manager at BBN and General Electric for a variety of defense-related R&D programs including real-time signal processing and system performance modeling for sonar, radar, speech detection, nuclear test monitoring and computer network defense systems. He currently serves as a co-chair for the Science and Technology Committee at MedTech.

Ted is a graduate of the GE Edison Engineering program and has an MSEE from Syracuse University.