A highly accomplished and multifaceted professional with expertise in a variety of fields. Multidisciplinary entrepreneur, angel, and venture capital (VC) investor involved in various startup projects across North and South America. Biomedical and environmental health researcher with extensive molecular biology experience leading research discovery projects. Extensive technical skills with bioassay development using flow cytometry, Western Blot, ELISA, immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR as well as technology intensive proteomic methods using mass spectrometry and bioinformatics data analysis. Wide-ranging experience in biological sample preparation from biofluids; animal and human tissue; subcellular cell preparations; and isolation of low population cells. Experienced collaborator leading research projects in academia as well as internal/external projects in the pharmaceutical industry across departments, external vendors and academic groups in the US, Europe, and Latin America. A successful pharmaceutical career focused on developing translational pharmacodynamic and safety biomarkers, druggable target identification, and novel diagnostic markers for patient selection focused on infectious disease and endocrinology.More resent accomplishments include an innovative project, winner of a Bill and Melinda Gates foundation Global Grand Challenges, to develop portable toilets to identify infectious diseases like Cholera and help prevent outbreaks of disease, as well as the identification of antibiotic resistant microorganism found in human gastrointestinal tract as well as released in urine as a global surveillance platform. A major focus of this project was to develop methods and technologies for early detection of diseases not reliant on hospital admissions and reporting since they typically identify only a small fraction of those infected and often after an outbreak is well established in the community.