Provide bioinformatics consulting for genomic and microbiome science.

Support researchers with bioinformatic services in the department's Center for Advanced Microbial Processing (CAMP) and the Center for Genomic Sciences (CGS). Specifically, I am focused on unsupervised classification techniques whose results are visualized with graph theoretic methods.

Arranged private financing for research faculty in advanced science and engineering.• Worked with and mentored scientists from numerous fields to position their work for private corporate or foundation funding including: quantum computing, lab-on-a-chip technology, infrared astronomy, spintronics, enzymology, nanotechnology, genomics, bioinformatics, public health, Earth remote sensing and medical imaging.• Negotiated research relationship between Canon corporation and UMD’s bioengineering department to develop an automated pathogen detection system for human blood.• Negotiated relationships with two geospatial satellite companies to support research in infectious disease identification from space.• Conducted multiple internal research competitiions involving dozens of researchers from all fields. Results were used to identify key researchers for new corporate and foundation relationships.Mentored researcher who developed injectable MRI probes. Helped him introduce ideas to leading medical imaging companies.

Key member of executive team. Formulated strategy and financings for this optical technology R&D firm mainly doing business with the U.S. Department of Defense. Developed research collaborations with industry and academia in photonic image processing applications for MRI and microscopy.• Worked with science staff to identify commercial opportunities for company’s synthetic aperture radar technology. Helped them understand its value for magnetic resonance imaging and a new form of microscopy called synthetic aperture microscopy (google: lapides synthetic aperture microcopy).• Authored, prosecuted and secured several U.S. patents for company’s imaging technologies.• Built relationships with major academic research institutions and international industrial firms to further research and development of this imaging technology.• Worked with senior executive staff to define strategies for debt restructuring and equity financing and assisted in securing capital.• Advised the company on major litigation strategy and negotiation.

Led this $1.2 billion, 20,000 person services and manufacturing firm during a financially challenging period which included complex M&A and finance activities. As CIO, modernized IT in four divisions. Began as management trainee.• Managed corporate turnaround through severe cash crisis, improving cash flow by $50 million.• Reduced corporate bureaucracy of 200 to 40 in nine months while maintaining control of the company’s core financial systems.• Ran divestiture M&A activities resulting in $750 million in transactions over about two years.• Managed $80 million going private transaction.• Introduced analytics into operations, solving numerous problems involving plant efficiency, vehicle routing and material distribution. For example: - Solved riddle of collapsing revenue in $600 million vending operation. Management thought it resulted from emerging recession. Proved it resulted from faulty vehicle routing algorithms. -Determined that company’s food distribution in $1 billion food subsidiary was operating inefficiently. Outsourced $150 million dollar of food distribution providing substantial savings and improvements in customer service.

Conducted research on the physics of cell membranes using laser Raman spectroscopy.• Measured effects of membrane components on the stability of lipid bilayers to elucidate how substances such as nutrients, toxins or medicines cross the biological cell surface
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Conducted research on the physics of solar flares and planet formation using gamma-ray and x-ray spectroscopy and neutron transport theory.• Ph.D. thesis on the remote measurement of planet and comet asteroid composition using cosmic ray induced gamma-ray detection. Cited by scientists publishing on the Mars Oddysey mission (google: lapides gamma ray).• Solar flare research – studied gamma-ray producing nuclear reactions involving Carbon and Oxygen for use in solar flare temperature measurement.