Leveraging core technology to revolutionize data analysis and management in the Life Sciences

As Director of Life Science Solutions, I help customers to understand our product, assist our engineers with understanding our customer needs, and work to provide relevant messaging for Panasas products.●Increased 2021 Life Science revenue by over 2x over 2021●Increased 2020 Life Science revenue by over 3x over 2019●Added multiple net new logos in 2020 and 2021●Manage marketing campaigns through Salesloft and Marketo, working closely with inside and field sales teams●Develop externally facing collateral, such as whitepapers, blogs, webinars and whiteboarding sessions●Lead product development for PanFS feature enhancements key to Life Sciences, with broader market applicability ●Benchmark Panasas solutions against common Life Science applications such as BWA and RELION●Serve as UCSD Center for Microbiome industry partner board member

Worked with customers to understand and manage their unstructured data using the fastest backup and archive product available

I interface with clients across Life Science organizations of varying size and disciplines to meet their scientific IT needs. I also manage the Bioteam Convergence Lab, an experimental center to test hardware and software under life sciences workloads. 100% repeat customer rate for self-led projects Led a team of 4 consultants to develop a cloud migration plan for a top 10 pharma that led to creation of the first cross department cloud deployment team Saved a research institute 70% on hardware costs on a network redesign and deployed both a high-performance science network and enterprise network

Consulting support for HPC, cloud, storage and networking in scientific computing environments Assisted in the design of 30K core government cluster now ranked #88 on the Top 500 Acted as support lead for 3PB Lustre storage used by 100 researchers Performed FISMA Audit of web based government resource enabling Authority to Operate (ATO) for the provider

• Local Compute infrastructure administration• Software usability testing• AWS EC2 deployment and maintenance

 Interfaced with scientific staff to address and solve nontraditional IT challenges Standardized Asuragen’s AWS EC2/S3 deployment for NGS analysis enabling cloud usage Engineered and maintained NGS backup and data management strategy integrating devices running Windows and Linux with Amazon S3 for data protection

• Provided Bioinformatics support for Monoclonal antibody design• Systems administration in Mixed Linux / OSX environment• Developed interface for reporting protein synthesis yields

• Managed and analyzed plant genomic data related to biofuels and increased crop production• Contributed to business development, and hardware and software intelligence• Deployed crop breeding database

• Modeling and small ligand docking of G-protein coupled receptors. • Research included regular use of high performance computing, protein sequence alignment, protein structure prediction, and docking software.

• Contributed to various computational biology/bioinformatics projects • Evaluated sequence alignment algorithms and their applications to biological systems • Collaborated with experimental researchers on various projects• Provided support for annual Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) workshop

• Maintained large scale ecology lab experiments. • Experimental procedures included living organisms and toxic chemicals. • Recorded data, dosed experiments, and collected organisms from native habitats.