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Guiding the decision making process in the product development pipeline for the Detection product line. Providing high-level market research including competitive reviews, marketing briefs, and market reports to quantify future opportunities and applications. Understanding customer needs to create and support product requirement and specification to inform engineering during new product development. Delivering the "voice of the customer" throughout the development process; delivering solutions to identified market needs. Enhancing user experience through user centered design during software and hardware development.

Partnered with spouse to establish a small business specializing in life sciences, real estate investing, and publishing consulting utilizing our respective professional expertise.• Set up initial business structure and fulfilled legal filing obligations.• Managed finances, bookkeeping, employees and contractors, human resources, payroll, and taxes. • Established and managed employee health insurance and 401K retirement plans.

Worked collaboratively with a multi-member sales team as an advanced technology specialist and subject matter expert, managing the sales process, identifying leads, and closing new opportunities. • Grew sales revenue in assigned territories greater than twenty percent annually for three consecutive years.• Presented scientific seminars and customer visits in support of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s branched DNA technologies for high throughput gene expression and single-cell analysis. • Managed customer relationships and provided feedback from the field regarding product performance and future product-development needs.

Lead the strategic marketing of the epigenetic and biomarker extraction product lines.

Developed and managed strategic partnerships for proprietary post-translational proteomics technology in the Eastern United States and Europe.