I am currently serving as a creative consultant for a consulting group. This company provides design and strategic assistance for organizations facing challenging automation, biotechnology, general innovation, and design obstacles. Prior to 2011, I served as Director of Process Design and Research at Biolex Therapeutics, Inc. where I designed, and developed their upstream Bioproduction process. This project was challenging and engaging on many levels, the most serious being-- this kind of bio-pharmaceutical production system had never been successfully created before. The resulting system has been referred to as a "game changing" and "disruptive" approach to difficult molecule manufacturing*. I patented and developed this technology among others during my tenure at Biolex. The process was later purchase by Synthon Pharmaceuticals and is currently being studied for application as a production platform for Synthon's therapeutic molecules. While working at Biolex prior to 2005, I led their automation development team as Director of Automation. In this position, I created a completely automated novel plant tissue culture system. The critical development that allowed the system to succeed was a novel micro plate that accomplished renewal of culture media without tissue transfer. Additionally, the system employed integrated CCD camera-based tissue evaluation, allowing researchers to manage and harvest their experiments remotely. I have designed a wide variety of successful hardware, automation, and process solutions during my career. The previous examples are just a sampling of the novel systems and hardware that I have created in response to difficult and seemingly insurmountable research and development problems. I've had a widely varied career; problem solving in numerous types of tech projects across numerous disciplines and continue this legacy at my current position.(*General Discussion at the BPI Summit Symposium, Durham, NC, November 2008.)Specialties: Cross functional innovation solutions; Laboratory robotics; plant-based pharmaceutical bioproduction; aquaculture system design and automation; single use hardware and system design; automated laboratory research hardware and process design, aseptic process automation and design; conceptual and strategic ideation; tech transfer; CAD design and hardware problem solving; business intelligence and IP analysis