• Develop and deploy regionally specific marketing strategies to drive growth on existing product lines and promote new products. • Create and conduct voice of customer surveys to determine customer needs and then translate them to traceable, verifiable product requirements and product specifications.• Participate in cross-functional teams to develop, manufacture, and launch quality products.• Manage custom formulation services including pricing strategy and OEM agreements.• Develop marketing materials and train commercial team members on product lines, new products, and custom services.• Investigate and report back to stakeholders on emerging markets and potential investment opportunities.

• Develop new biotechnology products, leveraging in-depth understanding of customer segments, their workflows and related problems to target customer segments with a meaningful message• Identify opportunities for scientific growth and assess new biotechnologies, considering potential market performance based on current trends in government and private research• Enhance company’s reputation as an industry leader by educating company stakeholders with presentations discussing evidence-based scientific data on new technologies from academic and private laboratories• Conduct large virtual seminars for customers in several other countries, attended by hundreds of researchers with discussion varying from routine cell culture applications to more specific assays

Primary research focus was on determining the role of membrane trafficking, specifically small GTPases, during activation of naïve T cells.• Cell culture of primary and immortalized mammalian cells.• Responsible for creating and optimizing standard operating procedures.• Generated and edited scientific writing for presentation and publication.

Primary research focus was on activation of naïve T cells and immunological synapse formation through membrane trafficking. • Cell culture of primary and immortalized mammalian cells.• Designed, executed, and analyzed experiments in an independent manner.• Developed and optimized protocols for proteomic analysis of clathrin independent endocytic cargo proteins.• Adapted current methods in adherent cells to quantitatively measure membrane protein endocytosis, recycling, and turnover in T cells.• Prepared technical reports and in-depth protocols for presentation and publication.• Provided laboratory management including inventory and maintenance of service contracts.• Mentored post-baccalaureate students.

Primary research focus was on formation of epithelial cell polarity and membrane trafficking.• Pioneered lentiviral transduction and analysis for the laboratory.• Produced stable epithelial cell lines for growth in monolayers on transwell filters and in cysts.• Maintained multiple laboratory databases.• Systemized antibody production and purification from hybridoma cell lines.• Mentored high school and undergraduate students.• Managed laboratory budget, service contracts, and safety and radiation compliancy.

Research was directed at understanding the innate immune response during chlamydial infection.• Characterized the up or down regulation of small GTPases during chlamydial infection.• Utilized many molecular biology techniques including, immunofluorescence, western blot, ELISA, and qRT-PCR.• Yeast two-hybrid screens.

Primary research focus was on the identification of stress granule components after viral infection.• Produced and purified different viral types and strains.• Designed and optimized co-immunoprecipitations for subsequent proteomic analysis.• Identified novel components of stress granules.• Investigated the effects of interferon treatment on stress granule formation.• Delivered lectures for a course titled Infection and Immunity.• Mentored undergraduate students.