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Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

● Direct a high-performing project management team, providing custom services and products including cell line development, custom assays and products, compound screening, stem cell reprogramming and characterization, amongst others. ● Manage resources to achieve AOP and ensure all facets of the business are properly supported. Coordination amongst commercial teams, licensing, logistics, planning, and others to drive collaborations necessary for success.● Grow revenue through NPI and engagement with commercial partners. Support business development by leading successful RFx bids and sustaining key client relationships. ● Collaborate with leaders across sites and functions to maximize opportunities for growth and deliver on strategic plan.● Support monthly business reviews by summarizing financial results, customer feedback, and key metrics. Analyze market factors that influence the data.● Drive positive customer allegiance. Promote a culture that delivers an excellent customer experience by exceeding expectations and providing beneficial collaborations.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

● Evaluate customer project needs and ensure alignment with technical workplan through collaborative discussions with the client and technical team. ● Drive continuous improvement within our processes. Identify opportunities to create efficiencies, improve accuracy, and promote the customer experience. Encourage quick win solutions and support detailed analysis where appropriate.● Establish annual team goals and KPI. Monitor performance and identify areas of opportunity to exceed targets.● Manage escalations of technical challenges or delays. ● Work with team members as individuals to outline growth and development plans while identifying gaps and solutions to support career development.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

● Collaborate with customers, technical team, and commercial sales to design, execute, and deliver custom projects. Work directly with customers to understand their specific project needs. Align with the technical team to ensure a successful workplan, accurate cost, and precise timelines. ● Establish positive customer experience through clear and timely communications. Understand potential barriers and proactively mitigate challenges that may arise. ● Facilitate customer communications including project kick-off calls, recurring project updates, and ad hoc scientific conversations to support a successful collaboration between customer and technical team. Provide detailed notes and action-items that with mechanisms to make certain they are completed.● Manage timelines and invoicing of project milestones. Ensure accurate forecast of project completion and invoicing in order to help our commercial partners monitor revenue. ● Coordinate shipment of materials, domestic and international, to deliver temperature-sensitive materials to our clients.

Madison, Wisconsin

● Delivered custom products and services by establishing strategic initiates and effectively applying resources to ensure on time-delivery. Identified critical infrastructure, designed validation protocols, and coordinated cross-functional projects across multiple sites to deliver products to our customers. ● Oversaw manufacturing of catalog products according to standard protocols and specifications. Controlled inventory and backorder, used ERP to ensure that the supply chain remains stable. ● Managed operations to execute cellular assays and provide data to customers. Developed cost structure and established deliverables for custom research projects. ● Launched new service (QuantiGene screening) and products (concentrated antibodies to support Affymetrix assay platforms). Created new SKUs, designed and executed validations, integrated into Quality System, established costs and inventory transfer processes. ● Planned AOP and monitored budget. Reviewed trial balance sheets and summarized monthly finance reports. Established annual goals for the team to support the strategic plan of the organization. ● Ensured compliance to ISO 9001:2015 Quality Standard. Review and update SOPs, complete problem reports and deviations, ensure proper fulfillment of corrective action, enact change orders and review effectivity checks. Coordinate regular equipment monitoring and calibration.● Fostered a culture of continuous improvement. Identified opportunities to increase efficiency, enhance quality, and produce productivity savings.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Assay Management: Coordinate assay requests and data delivery for all project teams. Manage schedules for each project team in order to create appropriate assay requests, collect and submit samples, analyze and provide data summaries in a timely fashion. Design and submit requirements for an enhanced LIMS data system. Test new data systems for effectiveness and accuracy. Required skills: Good communication skills to coordinate project teams and production. Proficiency in assay protocols. Attention to detail to authorize quality data. Critical thinking to develop effective and efficient software to support assay platform needs.Leadership: Manage a team of researchers. Goal setting and performance management to ensure my team delivered timely, high quality data. Prioritized communication and candid feedback to promote excellence and continuous improvement from the team.Plant Transformation: Perform weekly tasks related to agrobacterium-based plant transformation into multiple plant species. Innoculate embryos, material transfer steps, plant selection and assay setup. Develop protocols for new species.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Project Team Support: Manage testing pipeline for Gene Expression project team. Coordinate the supply of vectors through transformation. Ensure that vectors pass sequencing and compliance. Forecasting of samples and data generation using a variety of assays including MUG, 5’ RACE, and histochemical staining. Compile and authorize data in order to make expression cassette recommendations to customers. Required skills: Understanding of genetic cassette elements and function. Proficiency in assay protocols. Quality Management: Perform semi-annual internal audits on production teams. Participate in external audits on an annual basis. Create and maintain Best Practice Documents, training matrixes, and quality records. Plant Transformation Production: Perform weekly transformation tasks.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Plant Production: Management of greenhouse material to support delivery of research pipeline. Plant sampling screening . Extensive work in cross-functional team including sampling and data analysis.Field Testing: Coordinate across research sites to meet timelines with proper management of resources. Field research plot design and material packaging. Shipment of plant material in compliance with Monsanto and USDA requirements. Also responsible for greenhouse tasks to meet key performance metrics.Process Improvement: Responsible for design and testing of greenhouse database to track and update all material in greenhouses.

Middleton, Wisconsin

Product Delivery: Soybean project support involving plant care and harvest as well as event performance screening. Corn research including cross-pollination, harvest and shipment. Primary researcher responsible for field trials to establish back-up events for commercial product development. This included field mapping, packaging of seed and shipment as well as field sampling and assistance in the harvest processes.

Master’S Degree, Biotechnology

Bachelor’S Degree, Botany/Plant Biology