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Houston, Texas

Nevesta is a laboratory quality technology development group. The company was created to leverage expertise in multiple areas of laboratory quality assessment. We provide expertise in sample development, logistics support, information technology and management solutions as well as quality systems support. We currently perform contract work and support for many major US and international EQAS providers.

Houston, Texas Area

AAB Proficiency Testing Service (PTS) is a leading healthcare informatics company. We specialize in providing quality management testing programs used by medical laboratories and healthcare organizations to assess, monitor and improve diagnostic test results.

United States

SMC BIOSOLUTIONS develops and manufactures samples for External Quality Assessment/Proficiency Testing (EQA/PT) providers worldwide. Our goal is to become the supplier of choice for EQA/PT organizations. We believe that our strategy is unique and that we are well positioned to partner with providers of EQA/PT services. Our ISO 13485:2003 accredited facility in Austin, Texas is backed by many years of experience in serving the needs of EQA/PT providers. Company personnel are dedicated to working closely with our customers in order meet or exceed expectations. Reliability and flexibility are key attributes of SMC BIOSOLUTIONS.http://www.smcbiosolutions.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/smc-biosolutions

Houston, Texas Area

Serenus Group Inc. is a company formed to assist industry in capturing, storing, sharing and utilizing extremely large digital assets. Its core technology is DIgitalScope®.DigitalScope® is a unique tool that permits the use of whole slide digital images. You can view slides on a computer the same way you would view them on a microscope. DigitalScope® is the engine that drives SerenusViewerEDUCATIONSerenusViewer is ideal for use in an educational setting. Using SerenusViewer in a classroom environment allows a teacher to show an extremely large image, panning and zooming to regions of interest in real time.One example would be showing students several Regions of Interest (ROI) on a whole slide often used in pathology. By adding Regions of Interest, the instructor can move to each region simply by clicking on it on the screen. Regions can be further annotated with text notation and pointers.ENERGY/GEOLOGYSerenusView allows geologists, geophysicists and researchers in the oil and gas and related industries to view high resolution and thin-section slide images over the Internet. These images are often very large and hard to share or view over the Internet. With SerenusView the image is uploaded to a server, whether your account is on our secure server or you host your own server in your facility, and with in minutes you can share the image to colleagues or clients anywhere in the world.You can use our annotation tools to add Regions of Interest, noting important areas in the image.

Houston, Texas Area

IMQIS was formed in 2011. The company developed DigitalScope™. DigitalScope is a technology for delivering multi-gigabyte digital images to thousands of concurrent users over the internet.The technology is being used to provide Clinical Laboratory Proficiency Testing Programs to customers throughout the world.This same technology is being used to develop an extensive inventory of: Online Clinical Microscopy Competency Tools Online Clinical Microscopy Quality Control Tools Innovative and Low Cost Graduate Medical Education Programs Low Cost Testing Platforms for Professional Board Examinations Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations (OPPE) Programs, such as those required by the JCAHO Maintenance of Certification Programs (MOC) for Professional Organizations

Irvine, California

Responsibilities:• Managed a staff of 25 including Ph.D. and M.D. level Group Leaders and Senior Scientists.• Annually developed and managed a $4.5 Million product innovation budget.• Worked with Marketing and Sales to develop, update and execute a long-term strategic plan for the Diagnostics Group and Quality Systems Division.• Implemented the long-term Division strategic plan as a project oriented product development and support program. Manage more than 40 independent product development projects and 20 major product support projects in 2001.• Provided technical support of 104 products generating more than $100 Million in annual sales.• Key team member of an international team to develop a new Quality Control Paradigm using a computer expert system. Accomplishments: Reduced cycle time on New Product Development from 36 to less than 16 months through improvements in experimental design practices, implementation of project time-line management, and implementation of project accounting of time and money spent. This increased department product output from an average of 4 new products a year to over 8. In 1998, including custom products, the department developed and released 29 new products. The increases in output were achieved while finishing $900K under budget in 1997 and at budget in 1998, despite absorbing more than $650K in non-forecast custom development work. Managed the department personnel to accomplish the above with no increase in head count Re-wrote the New Product Development S.O.P. to adopt a team oriented project management approach, emphasizing coordination with other departments and divisions. Also, brought the procedure into compliance with the new government Quality System Regulations.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsibilities:• Managed 3 departments of a large clinical testing laboratory along with 7 independent Physician’s Office Laboratories. Responsible for approximately 40 staff members, including Supervisors, Medical Technologists and Technicians. Performed quality audits on all Physician’s Office Laboratories every 6 months.• Handled an average of 20 – 40 technical calls per day. These were primarily high complexity calls from practicing physicians.• Responsible for all technical aspects of testing within the departments managed, including selection, acquisition, validation and implementation of new test methods, as well as review of procedures, maintenance documents and all other quality records.• Severed as Medical Director, Technical Consultant or Clinical Consultant to up to 7 independent small laboratories.• Developed a custom reporting system which selected key data from the main patient database and assembled doctor, nutritionist, care center, unit and patient based reports for various required Quality of Patient Care reports for the largest private dialysis company.Accomplishments: Significantly reduced the number of audit findings at remote laboratories. The last two HCFA audits at Physician’s Office Laboratories that I managed resulted in 1 and 0 audit findings. Developed and implemented a dialysis patient results reporting system to provide needed custom reports to the largest private dialysis company in the US.

Van Nuys, California

Responsibilities:• Together with the 3 other Area QA/QC Managers was responsible for implementation and compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Acts of 1967 and 1988 throughout all SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories nationwide.• Responsible for the Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs of 7 major hub laboratories and the National Esoteric Testing Center located in Van Nuys California. Coordinated the efforts of the local RA/QA managers in the development of effective quality policies and in the implementation of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act’s requirements.• Responsible for the direction and ongoing operation of the internal blind submissions proficiency-testing program.Accomplishments: Co-authored the 1993 original edition of the SBCL National Quality Assurance / Quality Control Manual. Together with the other Area QA/QC managers developed a national audit program based on the CLIA and CAP auditor guides. Was responsible for auditing each main laboratory in my region twice each year, co-auditing at least 2 laboratories outside my region twice each year and auditing forensic toxicology laboratories on an ad hoc basis.  Developed the remote laboratory audit program and was responsible for auditing an average of two small remote laboratories per month. Expanded the internal proficiency-testing program from 22 main laboratories to include more than 200 small testing centers. Automated the grading and reporting of the internal proficiency test program. Generated electronic tracking and trending of exception reports and corrective action implementation.

Ph.D., Cellular And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Arts, Biology

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