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Boulder, Colorado, US

• Medical/Scientific communication content development and review
• Management of company's FDA regulatory intelligence service
• Establishment of company infrastructure, finances, strategy, and operations
• Oversight of short and long-term operating plans to achieve company objectives
• Corporate Development to support profitable growth and expansion of company offerings

• Strategic marketing and product positioning in the highly competitive and highly technical field of Next-Generation Sequencing-based testing to advance precision medicine initiatives.
• Full lifecycle management for the flagship molecular cancer assay (80% of company sales).
• New product conceptualization, including assay performance specifications for R&D/QC.
• Competitive analysis of the market to produce effective and targeted sales directives.
• Operational oversight into raw material sourcing and BOM build-out for final packaged product.

• Execution on new business opportunities for collaborations, licensing, supply agreements, and partnerships that support company objectives.
• Close interaction with internal teams regarding day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of corporate development relationships.
• Orchestration of scientific, clinical, finance, legal and other colleagues to drive partnership discussions
• Development and maintenance of relationships with management teams at potential partner organizations.
• Work with internal teams to maximize scientific/ commercial value.
• Navigation of complex partnerships with multiple decision-makers through repeatable and continually improving approaches.

• Interim director of a 6-member team responsible for continuous supply chain, reagent sourcing, QC, packaging, and shipping of all ArcherDx products.
• Coordination of technology transfer from the R&D lab to commercialized product, maintaining all features and functionality of lab developed technology.
• Responsible for the operational aspects of new product launches, including new material sourcing, third party vendor builds, and final product assembly/validation.
• Integral in the development and implementation of product pipeline processes, increasing efficiency and decreasing time to market of cancer-based Next Generation Sequencing assays.

Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• Tracked project resources, determining which teams required additional personnel to meet prioritized project goals. Gathered information across molecular Biology and Software groups regarding capacity for new projects.
• Led company-wide, cross-site (Beverly, MA and Boulder, CO) team meetings daily to identify actions needed, roadblocks, and solutions to imminent and long term goals.
• Timely launch of first 21 individual “Archer” NGS library preparation products
• Tracking of action items with due dates and Gantt-chart dependencies to illustrate ripple effect of missed target dates throughout the product development process (PDP).
• Implemented web-based project management software systems, crucial to keeping the company cohesive across the R&D group in Colorado and the Production teams (2 sites) in Massachusetts.
• Key liaison between groups, regularly visiting the MA site to overcome communication barriers and address needs between the diverse groups.

Assisting in Licensing & Business Development at CSU Ventures (Colorado State University Technology Transfer Office). Experience with license negotiation of CSU-created intellectual property, support of startup formation, and fulfillment of Department of Defense contracts (Engineering, Chemical, Mathematics, Life Sciences).

Responsible for the identification, collection, and critical evaluation of relevant information from multiple sources to provide an in-depth view of emerging life science technologies. Proactive communication and collaboration with subject matter experts to produce focused recommendations.

Waltham, MA, US

Scientific review of new products and/or protocols prior to launch, focusing on accuracy, ease of use and workflow applications of each product. Directly responsible for projecting timelines, methodologies, expected results and necessary resources to ensure timely project completion. Documentation and communication of project results through technical.

Tucson, Arizona, US

Utilization of fruit fly genetics to determine potential therapeutic targets of Insulin-pathway signaling in aberrant neural development.

Tucson, Arizona, US

Doctoral Thesis: Novel roles for Fragile X Protein in Neurogenesis. - Trained in wide array of molecular techniques to assay RNA-binding proteins in neural stem cells.- Up-to-date literature knowledge and presentations led to several productive collaborations.- Achieved managerial experience mentoring and supervising undergraduate research projects.- Wrote.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Research focus: Heavy ion radiation leading to Acute Myeloid Leukemia-Assisted in NASA-funded irradiation of nearly 2000 mice at Brookhaven National Laboratory, followed by bone marrow extractions, and necropsies as cancerous signs appear.-Assisted in the production of peer-reviewed publications based on our results.

Fort Collins, CO, US

Research focus: Protein turnover in Breast Cancer - Trained in DNA plasmid production/ transfection, mammalian tissue culture, and Western Blot technique, concomitantly attending graduate level classes in advanced cell and tissue engineering.

Surprise, AZ, US

Research Focus: Function of protein plaques in Alzheimer's Disease- Trained in the use of hazardous tissue (brain), as well as sterile culture of human neurons.

Phd, Molecular And Cellular Biology

Mini-Law Course, Intellectual Property Law

B.S., Biology, Minor In Anatomy