Established equipment management system for 500+ individual items totaling over $2.5M including working internally with all departments to troubleshoot equipment or system issues and external manufacturers and vendors for installation, IQ/OQ, calibration, PMs, repairs, etc to ensure timeline success through equipment readiness/uptime, works with landlords for building maintenance and access issuesManages a team of 4 laboratory technicians and supply chain associates who collectively support lab operation duties such as basic cloning work, buffer preparation, cell culture, lab cleaning and restocking, and receipt of lab materials among several other tasksLeads EH&S as designated principal investigator for the company, chair of the interdepartmental safety committee focusing on safety SOP establishment and compliance, safety-related corrective actions and preventative actions (sCAPA) resolution, site risk assessments, safety onboarding for new hires, performing safety walkthroughs of lab areas and training lab staff on safety-related matters in accordance with local, state and federal regulations while also managing the relationships for EH&S-related contractors and vendors for biological and hazardous waste managementWorks with all departments to constantly evaluate current labs and offices for potential operational improvements, including supporting with technical training, leading operational update meetings, scheduling training sessions, and adding potential new equipment; currently helping lead the planning and design for construction of a new facility with department heads and external consultantsEstablished a robust material inventory management system for the 300+ different materials in-stock to help reduce the impact of supply chain constraints and works with vendors and suppliers to negotiate agreements and contracts for materials, equipment, warranties, and services, while also ensuring packing slips/invoices are processed and paid in a timely manner

Scientist II on the Science & Technology teamWrote highly detailed and efficiency oriented production batch records, SOPs, on-the-job training documents, and pre-job briefs in my job area specialties as a subject matter expert in order to lead and train the 6 other members on my teamResponsible for leading upstream optimization and characterization of multiple Thermo Fisher company-wide AAV and lentivirus projects in addition to duties from previous Process Development work, focused on intelligent experimental design and worked through a compressed timeline to meet company objectives and obtain goal to create a new product by Q4 2020Collaborated with the analytics team to train on areas outside my expertise assays including ddPCR and p24 ELISA

Scientist I on the Upstream Process Development team

Upstream Process DevelopmentResponsible for culture and maintenance of mammalian (HEK293) and insect (Sf9) cell lines for process development, banking, and testing purposesProficient with 2L, 10L, 25L, 40L and 200L bioreactor scales plus related equipment such as tubing welders, viability analyzers, pumps, and became a subject matter expert to train others on my team, successfully executing dozens of runs at all scales with high customer satisfaction due to increased titerImproved various quality and safety aspects of bioreactor and filtration operations resulting in being recognized by site leadership for ingenuity and attention to safetyWorked closely with the EH&S team to establish, implement, and monitor safety protocols that affected work safety company-wide

Optimized and performed all assays for the lab, including but not limited to, ELISAs, aPTTs, Bethesdas, chromogenic activity assays, histology/IHC, flow cytometry, and genotypingPerformed all aspects of mouse work for the lab, such as retro-orbital, submandibular, and tail trans-section bleeding, as well as intravenous, intramuscular, and intraperitoneal injectionsProficient at collecting tissues such as liver, spleen, kidney, et al from mice using consistent techniques to preserve structure and ensure reliable and comparable dataDeveloped an experiment nomenclature system to organize all data produced in the lab by keeping extensively organized physical and electronic lab notebooks utilizing LabArchives software