P.E.A.R.L. - Providing Everyone a Rewarding LifeCo-founder of 501C nonprofit organization focused on providing rewarding opportunities for yound adults with mental and physical disabilities.• Created foundation charter, mission and vision statements• Coordinated creation of foundation’s website: http://pearlfoundationofnc.com/• Manage foundation financials

Accomplished group leader with 13+ years experience in management and 25+ years in the pharmaceutical industry; Contributor to departmental strategy and planning; Research project management, leadership of multidisciplinary program teams focused on hit identification, target validation, mode of action and identification of lead molecules for candidate molecule selection; IT software implementation projects and management, leadership of international teams responsible for implementation and maintenance of projects utilizing Agile and for COTS products; Business lead for global data analysis strategy and planning; Leadership for new scientific and organizational initiatives; Laboratory management.Research Skills:• Contributed to multiple research projects focused on GPCR, kinase, enzyme, nuclear receptor and ion channel target classes as well as those focused in disease areas such as metabolic diseases, muscle metabolism, HIV, anti-viral, cancer, osteoporosis, cardiac disease, and fibrosis.•Assay development, MOA and execution for plate based assays Cell based assays: reporter gene, calcium mobilization (FLIPR), cAMP, b-arrestin, CPE live virus, fluorescence, HTRT, and primary cells Biochemical assays: SPA, filter binding, enzyme assays, HTRF, FLINT• Cell culture techniques, experience with 10+ cell lines, immortalized and primary• HTS assay processing (>1 million molecules), assay automation• Stable/Transient transfections; Expression cloning• DNA transformation/purification; PCR• Isolated tissue in-vitro assays• Small animal in-vivo assays