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Making Higher Ed a place to learn resiliency, flexibility and inventiveness.• Collaborate across URI to develop and manage programming that supports student, faculty, and alumni entrepreneurial, research, and creative ideas• Manage URI Launch Lab and (URI)² programs• Direct grant funding and showcase the works of undergraduates across all disciplines• Build community of entrepreneurship and research at URI• Develop partnerships that expand the URI entrepreneurial research ecosystem• Grow the mentor network within and outside URI• Showcase works of entrepreneurship and research

University/Federal Government partnerships• Repositioned and rebranded RI’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership into Polaris MEP. Recruited leadership and provided marketing for the organization that grew more than 200% over 2 years in outreach, clients, revenue, partner, and product line growth, maximized federal funding opportunity and implemented campaign that achieved state financial sponsorship of $250K.• Managed federal Department of Commerce partner relationships – SBA and NIST.• Onboarded RI Small Business Development Center to the University – wrote grant, recruited team.Entrepreneurship• Branded URI SPARC to develop URI’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, includes Office Hours mentor program, Makerspace, Hackathons, Newsletters, Startup Resources.• Recruit Entrepreneurship mentors. See URI SPARC program: bit.ly/uri-sparc.• Support university spinout companies with partner development, mentors, funding opportunities, company positioning, website development.• Proficient in salesforce.com, data management, social media tools, website development: WordPress, MS/Office, Google Docs.Technology Commercialization• Created $100K in state funded Innovation Voucher opportunities by connecting researchers with relevant RI companies for proof-of-concept technology development. • Collaborate with researchers to develop commercialization strategies for academic inventions.• Build and maintain University intellectual property commercialization marketing platform – website, technology briefs, customer relationship management system.• Promote technologies to prospective industry partners for licensing and sponsored research.

• Managed multiple client projects from sales through analytics, engineering, client delivery and accounts receivables.• Grew $1.5M prospect pipeline, and closed major account business in technology, retail, energy, education, and non-profit verticals.• Wrote statements of work, proposals, and executed NDAs, license agreements.

• Managed DOE program grants and legal documents for biofuels marketing projects.• Developed marketing collateral, website and educational seminars to create biofuels awareness.• Promoted new technology adoption at industry events and conferences.• Formed relationships with business and government partners in energy sector.

Market segmentation, sales operations, CRM, website design, marketing collateral, sales recruitment and training, direct sales.• Directed startup company account strategy, sales, proposal submission and project management with major clients including DuPont, USDA, FDA, DOE, Monsanto, Cargill, Merck, Abbott, Los Alamos National Lab, Fidelity, The Hartford, Bank of America, Citigroup.• Recruited, coached, trained, and managed field and telesales teams for startup technology companies.

Managed research lab including personnel, scheduling, accounting, purchasing, grants and bench science.Publications:• “Cellular Transforming Genes in Cancer”, Gene Transfer and Cancer, 1983• “Activation of cellular transforming gene in tumors induced by abelson murine leukemia virus”, Nature 1982