Blue Oak Brewing Company, LLC is a 7BBL Microbrewery in San Carlos, California. Blue Oak has seen double digit growth in sales quarter over quarter since opening our first tap room in February 2016. Leveraged over twenty-three years' experience in Biotechnology across Bioproduct Process Development to pharmaceutical manufacturing to build out a fully functional and profitable bootstrap operation.- Founder of company- Original concept, design of production facility from empty shell- Project managed build out from breaking ground to routine production- Developed novel processes, recipes and all documentation- Brewmaster; management of all operations, service and documentation- Supply chain management; all vendors, customers, weekly production schedulewww.blueoakbrewing.com

- Project managed, designed and built out of a fully operational R&D Pilot Plant- Plant manager for an FDA certified food production facility that created, validated and distributed a disruptive food technology platform in a company first- Technology transfer of engineering specifications and process operations- Oversight and operation of day to day scale up and scale down experiments- Develop processes and documentation for manufacturing operations- Run weekly meeting across functional teams- Recruit and track progress of associates and engineers

- Benchmarking for scale-up and scale-down of manufacturing upstream and downstream processes- Fermentation and Recovery process development- Assay development

- Pre-commercial scale fermentation, recovery, and purification manufacturing processes; generation of preliminary material for toxicology studies, Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III clinical trials- Process and equipment engineering, optimization, standardization- Developing and validating SOPs, Batch Records for new, potential pipeline products

- CHO cell recovery and purification- Downstream large scale separation techniques; operation of anionic, cationic chromatography resin columns, Tangential Flow Filtration skids, HMIs

- Troubleshoot operations processes for manufacturing start-up large scale pharmaceutical operations- Maintain and operate large scale upstream, downstream production equipment- Modify and Validate SOPs, MPDs, BPRs

Team Lead duties:- Author and validate SOPs for internal audits- Responsible to training all operators and associates on SOPs, scheduling of fermentation laboratory day-to-day tasks- Track growth and development of operators and associates- Identified and conducted Hazard Assessments for fermentation and operations processesTechnician responsibilities: - Bench scale fermentation - designed, operated custom reactor configurations- Experienced with perfusion reactors, fed batch, immobilized, cell recycle, and other experimental reactor designs- Data collection and presentation - Mass Spec, HPLC, GC- Bioprospecting - field microbiology work, collected and isolated strains to build a proprietary strain library- Microbiology - excellent sterile technique, anaerobic hood operation- Process Development - developed process flow diagrams and interface between functional groups- Feedstock pretreatment/detoxification - creating methods for biomass sugar extraction and proprietary treatment conditions- Scaling operations - bench to pilot scale, played critical role in technology transfer for scaling up processes

- 14L scale fermentation, downstream processing, product recovery (2000)- Leadership role for on-site Media Preparation laboratory (2001-2004)- Recruited internally to work on a biosensor technology platform (2004-2006)- Recruited internally to work in the fermentation process analytical laboratory, SDS-Page, ELISA assays, programmed Biomek liquid handler for HTS (2006-2007)

- Shipping and receiving - Inventory control/Cycle counting- Data tracking, data entry- Product aliquot, assembly- Media preparation