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San Rafael, Ca, Us

Technical and people leadership as part of upstream process development team with focus on technology and platform improvement.

Emeryville, Us

Responsible for technical direction of bioprocess team, project management, people management, facility design, strategy and more. Developing a novel bioprocess platform for cultivated meat applications and more.

Emeryville, California, Us

Fermentation, High Throughput Screening, and Downstream Process Development. Responsible for team of scientists and research associates developing process for high throughput screening of engineered strains for variety of phenotypes, as well as bench scale process development of fermentation and purification processes for tech transfer and scale up to our manufacturing group. Responsible for improvement of Zymergen's fermentation and technology platform including exploration of new technologies and development of novel software and automation tools.

Emeryville, California, Us

Lead a group of scientists and research associates on a portfolio of projects for Zymergen's agent and principal businesses. Initial focus on innovative high throughput process development through deep understanding of fermentation processes, downscaling, cell physiology, data science, and statistics. Expanded responsibilities to include screening of strains at bench scale fermentation as well as fermentation process development and tech transfer.

Emeryville, California, Us

Leading a group of engineers and scientists on establishing world class high through strain engineering platform from DNA construction to high throughput screening. Establishing infrastructure for rapid on-boarding of new projects, systems for manufacturing execution, change control, and process monitoring. Leading technology transfer and scale out of new processes and programs into Zymergen's high throughput screening production facility.

Emeryville, California, Us

Fermentation and High Throughput Screening Development Scientist. Developed initial high throughput screens and fermentation processes across multiple organisms and products for establishment of Zymergen product portfolio. Developed infrastructure for monitoring metadata, standardizing automation protocols, and collaboration with data science and software to develop tools in Python, JMP, Excel for rapid data manipulation and analysis including an automated data pipeline for strain promotion. Developed and transferred multiple bench scale fermentation processes to outside pilot facilities for production of Zymergen's initial product portfolio.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Developed cell culture process for antibody production in mammalian cell culture from 5 mL to 2000 L scale for toxicology and clinical trials. Headed a cross functional team focused on cell culture automation developments. Led Phase I clinical campaign, authored cell culture sections of IND, and coordinated transition of lab equipment for 40+ member cross functional department to Gilead.

Early and late stage development for vaccines, from preclinical to commercialized projects. Technology development for 30+ bioreactor development lab and pilot scale robotic system for adherent cell culture of viral vaccine.

Phd, Chemical Engineering

Masters, Biotechnology

Bachelors, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering