Christopher Navas Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington

Direct technical development efforts as part of a diverse pipeline of cell therapies for oncologypatients with solid tumors. Lead efforts to build and elevate the flow cytometry program. Leaddiscovery, vetting, and implementation of new technologies.⇨ Managed a sub-team that conducted technology transfer of product characterization andquality control.

Greater Seattle Area

Built the start-up’s cytometry core infrastructure, then made major contributions to the first drugdevelopment projects in immuno-oncology. Facilitated user training, presented pre-projectproposals, and provided assay and panel development support company-wide.⇨ Developed several in vitro assays, such as antigen-specific assays, tumor co-culture assays.

Seattle, WA

• Flow cytometry facility manager for Seattle research center which includes: two 19-color LSRII’s, a 14-color LSR II, Accuri C6, Guava Easy Cyt, Hypercyt, Aria II and Mo-Flo XDP. Provide on-site technical and.
• Perform sorting experiments to support project work for entire site. Implemented and administrated Flow-Jo Enterprise data management platform.
• Created automated analysis pipelines within FlowJo Enterprise in support of Human Biomarker group.
• Led efforts to implement unsupervised clustering algorithms for flow cytometry data analysis.
• Assisted in lead target identification efforts with assay development in high-throughput phenotypic screening experiments.
• Worked closely with teams developing biomarker assays to develop QC and instrument setup protocols including provisions for rare event analysis.

Ann Arbor, MI

• Used diverse set of experiences to provide in­depth guidance for customer application inquiries with an emphasis in data analysis inquiries for all 3rd party analysis suites.
• Worked with marketing team to develop new applications for C6 cytometer such asmeasurement of aquatic organisms and high throughput cytometry.
• Worked with foreign sales team abroad providing technical and applications training for distribution in China, Singapore, India, and Japan.

Brooklyn, NY

• Provided on­site technical and applications support for the BD Influx sorter in the Northeast region.
• Part of integration team which served to integrate the Cytopeia service department into the BD service organization after the acquisition of Cytopeia by BD.

Seattle, WA

• Worked with executive management to help create the Technical Support department at Cytopeia and was involved in managing all technical support duties including installations, applications development and customer.
• Was key liaison between the R&D department and customer base for the development of custom engineering solutions for novel applications such as index sorting and polarized forward scatter measurement.
• Assisted production and manufacturing groups in improving sorter assembly process and all final assembly testing.

Seattle, WA

• Performed all sorting experiments in support of cell and molecular biology groups on the legacy Mo­Flo High Speed Sorter.
• Part of the high­throughput process development team that utilized robotics to automate cell ­culture and cell staining methods.