•Supervise, oversee, train, and develop Development Technicians and Technical Associates.•Oversee condition of the Development Sciences Area, to encompass the Development and Process Laboratories and all equipment and instruments.•Conduct and oversee client projects including product and process development, technical support, validation, and troubleshooting.•Coordinate and oversee Toxicological and Clinical Trial Material utilizing aseptic processing and containment techniques, including batch preparation and processing.•Project Director managing all aspects of research studies for lyophilized preparation from the initial study design with study sponsors through analysis of data and report preparation.•Oversee and review thermal analysis projects including freeze-drying microscopy, electrical resistance measurements and differential scanning calorimetry.•Direct thermal analysis and development laboratories’ personnel and instrumentation.•Supervise laboratory technicians to successfully complete projects.•Compose and review standard operating procedures.•Investigate fundamental principles and advance the applied science through basic and applied research studies.

Managed morphology core lab and gene characterization projects.Embed, sectioned, stained and analyzed various cardiac tissues. Designed and performed studies to characterize specific genes that play a role in cardiac malformation and disease.

responsible for growth and cryopreservation of microbial cultures and mammalian cell lines utilizing aseptic technique.Quality control testing of preserved samples for viability and sterilityDistributed and tracked biological samples GSK worldwide.Designed, tested and implemented a web based catalogue system for biologicals.

Wrote and reviewed assay reagent qualification procedures and reports.Performed and troubleshoot LAL (bacterial endotoxin) assays following SOPs within a GMP environment. Authored LAL qualification packages and deviation investigation reports.

Developed and maintained a Caco-2 cell culture line for transport studies. Animal handling of dogs and rats for dosing and blood sampling for drug candidates to establish preliminary dosage requirements and safety.

Responsible for all cell culture and animal husbandry.Amplified viral stocks for studies involving measles virus inoculation.Utilized transgenic mice for various viral studies.

Responsible for ordering equipment and reagents as well as maintaining lab.Cell/tissue culture, western blotting, protein biochemistry work.Collaborated on research projects focused on chondrocyte development.

Grew, split and chemically inactivated large titers of HIV infected mammalian cells for immunotherapeutic use.All work performed following cGMPs and Standard Operating Procedures.Prepared and implemented master batch records.

Investigated asthma by identifying and analyzing different airway cell messengers that play a role either prohibiting or inducing an asthmatic reaction.Cultured smooth muscle tissue and various cell lines.Authored and reviewed publications.

working with a recombinant phage antibody system using various molecular biology techniques such as agarose gel electrophoresis, spectroscopy, PCR and transfection. Laboratory maintenance and reagent preparation.