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Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

• Leading a pharmaceutical startup’s multi-omic efforts, driving the delivery and adoption of machine learning approaches for data exploration, data pre-processing/cleaning, data normalization, data analysis and interpretation, data visualization, and actionable outcomes presentations.• Advising CEO on market position, risks, milestone feasibility, and strategic future project directions during weekly executive briefs and monthly executive presentations.• Managing a nutraceutical product life cycle, including 3 posts per week across 5 social media platforms, market position analysis, business development, influencer marketing, and key opinion leader networking.• Utilized text and data mining on unstructured data, implemented SEO-optimization techniques, and achieved 20,000+ new user traffic per month across a science news website.• Deployed and updated natural language processing models for multiple functional units, saving relevant employees 2+ hours per week

San Diego, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Evaluated 20+ early-stage life science startups, conducting comprehensive due diligence and market analysis on those that passed prescreening and screening meetings.• Participated in investment committee meetings, contributing to decision-making on potential investments.• Provided strategic advice to startups on business development, market positioning, IND feasibility, partnership opportunities, clinical trial planning, and risk management.• Acquired understanding of team importance, deal flow, and investor-entrepreneur relations.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Pioneered a preclinical trial, including the strategic planning, execution of experiments, and validation of a molecular target that resulted in anti-aging benefits across every organ monitored.• Developed and provisionally patented a novel vaccine based on accurate strategy implementation. • Managed 2 teams while performing computational analyses of gut microbiome (microbial genomics), RNA sequencing, and metabolomics, including multi-omic integration.• Created bespoke project plans, resulting in a 50% reduction from expected delivery timeline.• Pitched to 30+ high-value individuals resulting in positive feedback and strategic adaptation

• Investigated the effects of longevity-based pharmaceutical interventions after wood smoke inhalation exposures• Gained significant experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS) big data analysis across multiple “omics” domains, utilizing R, Python, and Linux for machine learning and predictive analyses• Spearheaded 5 pharmaceutical projects resulting in accepted manuscripts for each project• Used problem solving methods to troubleshoot protocols to ensure projects were delivered on time and within budget• Wrote 5 first-author scientific publications while making formal presentations at international meetings and won 2 awards• Concurrently earned an MBA, with electives focused on entrepreneurial finance, project management, and product development

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Investigated the contributions of environmental exposures towards senescence events within the lung and brain• Determined that electronic cigarette exposures resulted in overlapping biomarkers with COPD and IPF

Greater San Diego Area

• Investigated the feasibility of a replicable neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) in vitro model• Developed and troubleshot all aspects of the SOP, including cell culture, NET induction, NET isolation, validation, and whole genome sequencing (WGS) analysis• Gained experience with bioinformatics approaches in Linux, CLC Genomics, Rstudio, Python, and Excel• Wrote a manuscript and presented the results at multiple international conferences

Greater San Diego Area

• Became an expert on neutrophil-centric immunology, with a special focus paid to neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs)• Cultured mammalian cells, including splitting, feeding, differentiation, growth curve analysis, immunofluorescence, and immunohistochemistry• Co-cultured anaerobic and aerobic bacteria with neutrophils to determine pathogenicity• Gained experience with confocal and SEM microscopy, microfluidics chips, and FACS sorting

La Jolla

Received a stipend from the National Institute of Health to conduct research. The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program attempts to in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented populations.

Greater San Diego Area

• Differentiated human iPSCs into cardiomyocytes• Isolated RNA and thermocycled to cDNA for PCR analysis• Used gel electrophoresis to confirm the appropriate size of products• Recorded all daily proceedings and procedures in an electronic lab notebook

Greater San Diego Area

• Successfully isolated DNA from cow rumen and performed RT-PCR• Confirmed purity and concentration of DNA via Nanodrop Spectrophotometer• Cloned PCR product into expression vector• Transformed E. coli with plasmid containing pET 101 vector• Expressed a cellulase gene of interest with IPTG• Purified the protein via nickel ion chromatography• Recorded daily lab proceedings and procedures in physical lab notebook

Greater San Diego Area

• Maintained weekly inventory operations including pricing, purchasing, and forecasting• Streamlined and improved many of the background processes including logistics, finance, and customer care• Proven history as a mediator for inter-employee relations and PR conflicts• Advanced from apprentice to journeyman while independently acquiring new administrative responsibilities

Greater San Diego Area

• Presented daily reports to superior officers during deployment resulting in actionable information from difficult to achieve intel• Monitored security while overseeing the smooth execution of events that offered medical services to large groups of local hostile populations • Trained incoming personnel in communication techniques and technologies including nuanced social norms of foreign cultures and satellite set up• Fostered rapport with Philippine Barangay (Village) Chiefs as well as local police force and populations

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Mechanisms Of Aging And Prevention

We examined the effectiveness of senolytic drug interventions after wood smoke exposure in mice. Another arm of research involved.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: A particular focus was paid to entrepreneurship, innovative product design, operations, and project management.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: Former President of the Biotechnology Organization