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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Owned the digital strategy of R&D department.-Led the strategy, development, and maintenance, of the R&D Informatics platform.-Responsibilities include all aspects of scientific data management & analysis. Such as instrument integration, inventory management (digital twin), data analysis, compound progression, ELN deployment, digital compliance, and workflow management.-Collaborate across teams and departments to drive the continual improvement of Research Informatics.-Utilize custom Python, SQL, & API driven solutions to unify disparate platforms into one flexible data backbone without disrupting data capture.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Part of a cross-department team that guides enterprise software through development, sales, implementation, and success. Responsible for client & project management, solution requirements & design, supporting sales, and delivering feedback to appropriate departments in the spirit of continual improvement.-Comfortably distill scientist needs to relentlessly drive value in novel SaaS products.-Led voice-of-customer research to understand, develop, and solve biopharmaceutical needs.-Developed API-driven solutions to demonstrate and solve customer-specific problems.-Used agile-guided decision-making processes to navigate uncertain business situations.-Provided custom implementation services to help close deals.-Balanced scientific knowledge with software development and commercial skills to demonstrate product value and support software sales.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Spearheaded the cross-company bioinformatics department. Built and maintained the in-house pipeline for integrating scientific data across cheminformatics, biologics, bioanalysis, and clinical trial information. Data was compiled and daily models were run to distill novel insights from existing data sets.-Use in-house and external data to drive predictive algorithms for cheminformatic drug discovery.-Innovate optimal ways of visualizing and communicating biomolecular data from a rich dataset.-Provide detailed statistical models to support decision-making using Python and DataWarrior.-Generate and maintain company-wide tools for data mining and providing 'dashboard' views of top compounds using VBA and Java enhanced software. -Use machine learning analytical techniques (such as t-sne, activity cliffs, MLP, Random Forest) to discover novel uses for existing pre-clinical biochemical assay data.-Generate interactive graphs for plotting mined data sets based on pre-defined criteria.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Developed and optimized novel methods for biopharmaceutical screening. -Develop molecular and cell-based assays for drug target screening.-Utilize Excel VBA to code custom queries for database mining in IDBS-Build data analysis programs for finding novel insights from existing datasets.-Designed assay templates for automated data processing and storing in IDBS database.-Optimize in-house kinase assay into a high-throughput pipeline while improving reliability.-Research and test novel utility for developed compounds.

Jupiter, Fl

Designed, integrated, and managed a multi-million dollar HCS facility. Managed clients in laboratory automation and data integration.-Trained and collaborated with over 50 scientists.-Acted as an inter-campus resource for colleagues.-Utilized fully automated screening instruments alongside automated liquid handling robots to meet automated cell-screening demands.

Jupiter, Fl

Married cutting-edge science with big data technology across dozens of distinct projects.-Manage dozens of diverse projects across the entire life-cycle from initiation to closing.-Designed and built a novel high-content and high-throughput automated screening platform capable of characterizing biological dynamics using in vitro primary neurons.-Helped generate a custom knock-in mouse line utilizing conditional biomarkers for optical cell screening.-Developed a fully automated drug candidate pipeline using VBA, C++ and R to data mine, classify, and validate hits from over 576,000 data points.-Pioneered a new procedure to measure the intracellular localization of a novel protein isoform using custom antibodies and molecular cloning.-Quantified epigenetic alterations in cell morphology using dissociated tissue.-Researched role of adhesion complexes in synapse formation and working memory.-Organized and executed mouse behavioral batteries testing the effect of experimental compounds on gross motor activity, sociability, anxiety, and learning & memory. Analyzed results using custom-written automated algorithms.

Boca Raton, Fl

Trained new students in neuroscientific technique and GLP. Supported the progression of multiple laboratory projects.-Taught histology technique in brain tissue sectioning and staining to undergraduates working in the lab.-Pioneered new techniques for increasing the accuracy and efficiency of neuropharmacological micro-injections.-Supervised the training of new lab members in stereotaxic brain cannulation and behavioral analysis.-Led a team of researchers in characterizing a nootropic peptide and its mechanism of action.-Mentored undergraduate students in biological and histochemical techniques.

Boca Raton, Fl

Published novel research furthering our understanding of neuroanatomy and neuropharmacology.-Performed rodent site-specific brain cannulations to investigate the effects of neural-infused bioactive compounds on motor activity, anxiety and learning & memory.-Quantified in vivo behaviors in mice injected (i.p., s.c., & i.v.) with neuroactive compounds using open field, elevated plus maze, novel object recognition, fear conditioning and Morris water maze.-Used immunohistochemistry and histology to stain and counter-stain fixed neural tissue for ex vivo analysis of brain inflammation.-Fixed, dissected, sectioned, mounted, stained and analyzed site-specific neurological damage.

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology, Business

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi Honor Society

Master’S Degree, Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Susan T. Dewar Memorial Award RecipientThesis Title: "Influence of small conductance calcium-activated potassium.

High School

Activities and Societies: Science Club, Amnesty International