SW Development Environment Worksheet

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Use this as a starting point to gather information on the software development environment (and related information) as required in FDA's Guidance for Software Information to be included in open market submissions. It is only intended as a starting point to be tailored by those already familiar with the FDA guidances and current expectations.

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Brian Pate

Partner and General Manager, Brian Pate is ISO 1385:2016 Lead Auditor certified for Medical Device Quality Management Systems (MD), and ISO 19011:2018 Management Systems Auditing (AU) and Leading Management Systems Audit Teams (TL). Brian started his medical device career in anesthesia clinical research in 1985 and has since worked both academia and industry including many years with Johnson & Johnson, Baxter Healthcare, and GE Medical. Brian’s roles have included software engineering, systems engineering, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. Brian has served on multiple AAMI TIR working groups, including TIR32-2008 (Application of ISO 14971 Risk Management to Software; now IEC 80002-1) and TIR45-2012 (Guidance on the use of Agile practices in the development of medical device software) and served as a reviewer for the 2nd edition of TIR45. Brian serves on the AAMI Software Committee and as an AAMI instructor for the software, design controls, and agile methods courses. Brian also is a member of the Underwriters’ Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel for UL1998 (Software in Programmable Components) and or UL5500 (Remote Software Updates).

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