Saguaro Technology is a boutique near-shore software development company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with development campuses in Timisoara, Romania. Saguaro offers high quality software engineering across a number of industries, including life sciences, robotics, automation, semiconductors, and many others.Key roles and responsibilities include:• Support the Office of the CEO in short and long term strategic planning, including developing business development approaches, identifying client experience and operational improvement opportunities, identifying opportunities to improve profitability, and associated financial modeling and planning• Creator and Head of Saguaro’s iNNOVATION Center, a physical space and series of internal programs for employees to explore novel technologies and ideas; key responsibilities include project evaluation, market research (primary and secondary to develop customer profiles, identify criteria for a minimum viable product, evaluate product-market fit, among others), project prioritization • Align marketing and other external / internal communications with strategic direction of the company, including working with the Marketing team to drive a major corporate and employer rebranding and marketing initiative• Develop data-driven approaches and novel analytical frameworks to understand and enhance the client and employee experience• Work cross-functionally to collaborate with management across the organization (Engineering, Marketing, HR, Finance) to develop and drive implementation of strategic initiatives

Strategy consulting specializing in the life sciences sector, including biopharma, personalized healthcare, and life sciences tools. Example projects include:* Growth strategy for a mid-cap first product biopharma company including growth initiative development, corporate valuation, and indication expansion / prioritization; work performed during this engagement led to a multi-billion dollar acquisition by a top biopharma company* Market assessments and commercial opportunity forecasting * Portfolio and indication expansion and prioritization across drug classes (e.g., small molecule, biologics) and therapeutic areas (including respiratory, autoimmune disease, fibrosis, oncology)* Evaluation of novel technologies (e.g., formulations, drug delivery, personalized medicine) and use in life cycle management strategy* Personalized medicine and CDx strategy for major global biopharma companies* Due diligence and white space investment prioritization

Supported an industry leader in implementing and operationalizing a nation-wide new business generation campaign for one of Australia's largest Industrial Services / Waste Management companies:* Led the campaign design across 3 cities in Australia, including strategic rationale of the campaign focus, sales force size, incentives structure, offers and customer inducements* Sales force analysis and optimization modelling* Worked side-by-side with management to implement and troubleshoot throughout the campaign and to provide regular updates with the executive leadership on progress* Enabled the client to operationalize the campaign in other regions post-engagement with L.E.K.

PhD in Biomedical Engineering (focus on stem cell research, development, and regenerative medicine) in the lab of Dr. Edward McCabe; studied directed reprogramming (transdifferentiation) of various adult somatic cells into steroid producing cells for tissue engineering.