Experienced Director of Laboratory Operations, CLIA Lab Supervisor and molecular biologist with six years management, eight years of clinical and R&D and fifteen years total experience in the field of Molecular Pathology.Formerly Site Head of Research and Development, US at Vela Diagnostics.Formerly Manager, Clinical Assay Development at Vela Diagnostics.Formerly Associate Director, Lab Ops at Signal Genetics, the exclusive provider of the Previstage GCC Colorectal Cancer Staging Test.Formerly Associate Director, Lab Ops and Senior Scientist at DiagnoCure Oncology Labs, the exclusive provider of the Previstage GCC Colorectal Cancer Staging Test.Formerly clinical research and development technologist in the UPMC MAP Lab. Responsible for development of new LDT's validated them for clinical use.Specialties: IVD Research and DevelopmentLaboratory OperationsProduct Development under ISO15485Clinical Laboratory ManagementCLIA, CAP and NY State ComplianceMolecular Diagnostics, Oncology and Infectious DiseaseAutomated Liquid Handling SystemsNext Generation Sequencing (Ion Torrent)Quantitative Real-Time PCRFluorescent Melting Curve AnalysisDNA and RNA extraction from fresh, frozen, FNA, FFPE tissues.microRNA profiling and expression quantitationSanger Sequencing DNA Fragment Analysis