Jean-Christophe Pothier Email & Phone Number

Montreal, QC, CA

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

San Diego, California, United States

• Identified new market requirements and established product requirements for R&D projects in super-resolution microscopy.
• Led hardware to software integration, ensuring successful transition to user-facing products.
• Developed project platform covering technology readiness, risk analysis, verification plans, and manufacturing readiness.
• Collaborated with external consultants and vendors for project alignment and integration testing.

• Led cross-functional team in developing embedded software for high content screening microscopy, achieving successful product technology advancements.
• Spearheaded refactoring of 80% of codebase for test application, improving system verification and service procedures.
• Implemented agile/scrum framework across projects, enhancing efficiency and collaboration within the team.
• Developed protocol scripts for verification, validation, manufacturing, and service procedures.

• Coordinated new product knowledge transfer from R&D to manufacturing and service teams.
• Reviewed and updated project launch deliverables for hardware team, including FMEA and V&V plans.
• Led successful on-time launch of new main feature for ImageXpress HTai system, receiving Certificate of Brilliance award for calibration and verification scripts development.
• Coding firmware and test application used for verification and production efforts.

Greater San Diego Area

• Direct line of support for the field service, depot service, technical support, refurbishment and production teams for any escalated issue on the imaging lines.
• Created standard work procedures for service installation, maintenance, refurbishment, and repair workflows for both ImageXpress product lines. Created 2 new online Field Service manuals.
• Created and running recurrent service trainings for all service engineers and distributors.
• Owner of all Service deliverables needed for new product and feature release acceptance.
• Created online visual management tools for product quality review and service triage calls.
• Recipient of the company’s 2019 Service Summit Award.

Greater San Diego Area

Field repairs, preventive maintenance and operation qualification work on numerous Molecular Devices systems, including plate readers and imaging instruments.

Boisbriand, QC, CAN

• Managed all incoming field or depot service calls for MolDev systems in Canada, including dispatch, customer support, service reports, and database management.
• Developed and supported customer IQ/OQ protocols for specific experiments criteria on various MolDev plate readers and imaging systems.
• Trained and supervised other service representatives working on MolDev systems in Canada.

Blainville/Boisbriand, QC, CAN

Troubleshooting, repairs, calibration & validation, IQOQs and maintenance of laboratory instruments: GC/LC/ICP, MS, liquid handling, plate readers & washers, imagers, vacuum tech, etc. Laboratory design and relocation support. Instrumental hardware & software research, design and development. Internal IT support.

Montreal, Canada Area

Distribution and manufacture of many high level sports equipment, mainly aim for canoe-polo and sprint canoe/kayak.

Montreal, Canada Area

Overall development of local canoe-polo athletes of all levels: from beginners to National Team. Planning and supervision of weekly practices. Team travel logistics for national and international events. Website setup and event director of various local events.

Montreal, Canada Area

- Study of bulk silicium amorphization using an ionic bombardment. Modification and optimization of an existent molecular dynamics program used for high energy implantation simulations. - Full characterization of created defects and comparison of their effect on crystalline (c-Si) and amorphous (a-Si) structured bulk. - Publications: PhysRevB.83.235206.

Sprint Kayak National team and AAP sponsored athlete from 1997 to 2004 and member of the 2004 preOlympic team. Raced at six (6) ICF World Championships, twice achieving the top 9 results, as well as 7 World Cup competitions. Overall 10 times National Champion in single or crew boats and, at the time, establishing 2 new national records.

M.Sc., Numerical Physics

Two-year project on the characterisation of nanodroplet coalescence at the atomic level using molecular dynamics. Ground up development of.

B.Sc., Physics, Graduated With High Distinction

Specialization in numerical and condensed matter physics.