• Serves as lead scientific contact for Powered Research, LLC.• Plans, organizes, and oversees all research activities.• Develops and grows the company’s customer base.• Manages multi-disciplined teams and staff for research studies.• Performs research specific procedures.

•Coordinates pre-clinical studies for research organizations.•Develops ophthalmic models for test article evaluation.•Authors protocols, grants and reports.

•Designs, develops, and executes experiments and analyzes results for qualifying new product prototypes. Trained in design control and GMP for medical devices.•Identifies novel peptides using phage display and molecular biology mutagenesis strategies, and characterizes peptides to immobilized and cellular targets using ELISAs, flow cytometry, Magnetically Activated Cell Sorting (MACS®), immunohistochemistry and western blots.•Presents data and progress reports for collaborators and upper management.

•Identified and characterized peptides to immobilized and cellular targets.•Characterized novel peptides binding a subset of immunoregulatory T-cells in blood using functional immunologic assays and real-time PCR.•Integrated research activities to support product development.•Wrote and prepared documents including research plans, commercialization plans and budgets for NIH Phase 1 & 2 Small Business Innovation Research Grants (SBIR).

•Identified peptides to immobilized and cellular targets.•Developed analytical methods for peptide characterization including ELISAs, flow cytometry, and western blots.•Optimized peptide binding using various DNA mutagenesis strategies.

Technical Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) fellow in Dr. Polly Matzinger’s lab in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.•Developed and optimized anti-tumor vaccines used to treat established solid tumors in models of cancer.