Eric Schell is a Senior Manager, Bioinformatics Services at Thermo Fisher (formerly Affymetrix). Colleagues describe him as "Eric’s knowledge of microarray products as well as the underlying science and the people involved (including customers) is extremely impressive. I worked with Eric in several capacities over years at first Affymetrix then Thermo Fisher. During that time, Eric lead the design team in the creation and support of many microarray designs and associated analysis files. He also has the valuable and uncommon ability to bring coworkers together, often breaking the ice with a humorous anecdote or relevant news item." and "I worked with Eric for over 20 years; first as a peer, then reporting to him. Eric has a broad knowledge base and skill set, as well as a near-encyclopedia memory. He's able to recall details and make logical connections between events that most people would have overlooked or forgotten. Eric is also excellent at interfacing with a wide variety of people across different departments, further stitching together ideas and processes. If you have the opportunity to have Eric on your team, it would be a mistake to let him go."