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New Market, MD, US

Maryland, United States

Drives product excellence by focus on advancing cell biology, molecular biology, sequencing, and real-time PCR technologies within the organization. Leverages an industry-leading Services and Support team, particularly Applications Scientists, to consistently exceed customer support expectations.Serves as the representative for Technical Applications.

Frederick, MD - Washington D.C. Metro Region

Provide support as a Technical Account Manager for our customers from pre-sales processes through long term support of clinical sites implementing our Ion Torrent Next Generation sequencing technology.Provide technical sales support for both existing and new product launchesProvide technical training and coaching to field support team membersLead clinical.

Frederick, MD - Washington D.C. Metro Region

Providing an outstanding customer experience to our sequencing clients in the MidAtlantic region. CAS score consistently in the high 90’s.Provide advanced troubleshooting and escalation management across all sequencing technologies supported. Maintain customer relationships and develop new opportunities within my region.Support new product introductions.

Carlsbad, California

Development for Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine and Ion Proton.Support exponential growth of projects through work on development of novel sequencing polymerases.

Carlsbad, CA

Manger for R&D team working on development of Class 2 Medical Device for HLA Typing.Provided team leadership and project management roles for team.

Frederick, MD

• Technical Manager for Applied Markets; Food, Water, Environmental, and Biodefense/security group.
• Responsible for overall coordination of R&D projects focused on Molecular Environmental Diagnostics and Environmental Microbiology centered tools.o Actively Manage the Integrated Program plan to ensure all programs.
• Developed novel rapid microbiological methods for detection of a wide range of pathogenic microrogranisms including E.coli O157, Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogense, Legionella spp., Cryptosporidium, Giardia.

• Developed and optimized more robust immunoassays for the analysis of recombinant human proteins in clinical samples, draft SOPs for these assays, transfer protocols to Quality control group.
• Developed PK and immunogenicity protocols utilizing Biacore 3000
• Created reagents necessary for research projects within group; labeled antibodies and proteins, purified antibodies and proteins as necessary, novel antibodies.
• Transferred and trained other groups (within Clinical Immunology, QC, Antibody Development and Protein Development) on assays, and continued as consult on projects as needed
• Qualification and Validation of new assays for Pharmacokinetics and Immunogenicity
• Project lead, performing fermentations producing recombinant protein products in BioFlow 4500, BioFlow 3000, and 100L Braun fermentor for phase I through phase III development work.

Developed and implemented innovative diagnostic assays in support of IND and Phase 1 clinical studies.

Performed in process bioburden testing of all final products in a cGMP microbiology laboratory.Produced media for support of testing in lab as well as sterility testing of media.Performed Antimicrobial Effectiveness testing in support of new products and packaging changes.Performed environmental monitoring of production suites as well as investigation of.

Research IGFBP-3 mediated apoptosis induced by Taxol treatment of PC-3 cells; high serum induced apoptosis of PC-3 cells. Studied signal transduction of cytokines (TNF-*, TNF-*, Bcl-2, TGF-*,) in vitroUsed confocal microscopy to follow intracellular localization of proteins Performed small scale protein purifications, SDS-PAGE gels, Western and Southern.