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Solana Beach, CA, US

Americas

Americas

Leading the Americas Technical Services organization - Field Applications, Remote Technical Applications, Field Service, Field Bioinformatics. Grow the team, grow the business, improve the overall customer experience with our technology.

Carlsbad, California, United States

Responsible for remote applications and hardware support organization for Applied Biosystems Genetic Analysis portfolio in North America and Europe, including a 24/7/365 global support network for COVID-19 workflows and applications.

Carlsbad, CA

Leader for six technical support teams across four corporate sites in the Western US, totaling over 50 employees within organization. Responsible for phone and email remote technical support for an array of Thermo Fisher's Life Science portfolios - Molecular Biology, Protein Biology, Cell Analysis, and Genetic Analysis (qPCR, Microarray, Capillary.

California, United States

Field-based supervisor and mentor for 15 direct reports in the Western US across 26 states, supporting Applied Biosystems and Ion Torrent sequencing systems and applications (Sanger/CE, PGM, Proton, S5, SOLiD/5500). Promoted to Senior Manager and bioinformatics strategy leader for North America after merging Field Applications and Field Bioinformatics.

US West

Field-based supervisor and mentor for 10 direct reports in the Western US across 17 states, supporting Life Technologies Sequencing systems and applications (Sanger/CE, Ion Torrent PGM and Proton, SOLiD4/5500). Promoted to full FAS Manager within six months of joining the team. Technical lead and Sr. FAS for sequencing applications and field escalations..

Greater San Diego Area

Provided scientific expertise and applications support and training to customers on Life Technologies’ next-generation sequencing products (Ion Torrent PGM and SOLiD/5500) through a variety of interfaces including in-person, phone and email communications. Partnered with sales reps in the field to deliver product line specific pre- and post-sales related.

Responsible for establishment and administration of the JCVI west coast sequencing facility. Supervise SOLiD production pipeline by tracking, troubleshooting, and reporting project progress. Serve as the west coast resource for the sequencing and new technology group to personalize interaction with investigators. Coordinate with scientific staff to meet.

Developed and supported a next-generation sequencing core facility on the Illumina GAIIx platform. Provided wet lab and bioinformatics support to establish a workflow for increased throughput and tracking. Improved performance and trained staff on pipeline operation, and assisted in the management of the Sanger sequencing core facility.

Developed and enhanced research, troubleshooting and problem solving skills during six year tenure. Excelled as research technician and promoted to Scientific Programmer in 2001. Primary responsibilities included sequence collection and analysis, laboratory information management system (LIMS) development, web management and unix/linux administration..

Combination of wet lab and computer-based tasks integrating different aspects of DNA sequencing and analysis. Prepared, isolated and sequenced phage and plasmid DNA libraries containing shotgun BAC and genomic DNA for high-throughput sequencing of large eukaryotic genomes.

Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences

Dissertation: The Identification and Characterization of Congenital Defects in CXCR2 Associated with Human Myelokathexis. Independent.

B.S., Biology