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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I lead design and development programs from feasibility to commercialization of genomic based, clinically actionable cancer diagnostic products and services. These program include internal R&D concepts as well as alliance management of partnerships with other innovative companies.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

South San Francisco, California, Us

● Led the packaging, bottling and distribution of Thrive Culinary Algae Oil.● Introduced and implemented portfolio management for several business groups resulting in awareness of priorities, focus on the most promising projects and improved team morale.● Changed the culture of application development from exploring all options to rapid prototyping and go/no-go decisions based on key requirements. This increased productivity by stopping projects that had little value and reduced the time to market of promising ones.● Developed and implemented communication tools that gathered disparate data from across the company into intuitive summaries. Presented monthly to executive leadership insuring consistent updates. Changed the culture of meetings to emphasis next steps, needs and dependencies instead of storytelling.● Rationalized sales operations to increase flexibility and reduce steps. Resulted in removal of non-value added work, fewer approvals and transparent information flow. ● Managed regulatory projects for GRAS, REACH and environmental approvals or registration including US and Brazil.● Rapidly developed credibility and trust of senior executives resulting in the ability to deliver unfiltered information.

San Jose, California, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

● Managed a major supplier change program affecting over $240M in revenue across several hundred products. This resulted in over a 50% margin improvement. Required coordination of five business units and four manufacturing sites. ● Led a rapid prototyping initiative to jump start the product development pipeline. Determined critical success targets, drove prompt decisions and managed a $4M budget.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for the integration of Stokes Bio into Life Technologies. Stokes Bio was a microfluidics R&D Engineering company the Life Technologies acquired in April 2010.● Ownership of the technical and organizational integration of Stokes Bio, an early stage microfluidics engineering start-up based in Ireland.● Delivered on cost, revenue and milestones related to deal model.● Developed a roadmap for the platform with product and executive management.● Evaluated employee and site capabilities and recommended a long term strategy to meet business needs, including investing in manufacturing capacity, technology transfer, and bringing over key people from the parent company to fill skill gaps.

Waltham, Ma, Us

● Program manager for up to 4 projects at a time across the Molecular Biology Systems division, including instrument platforms, software, reagents, assays and manufacturing systems.● Portfolio manager for all R&D projects related to BioTrove acquisition, responsible for prioritizing resource, schedule, and scope in context with other divisional projects.● Member of Voice of the Customer team in the company charged with changing the way products are defined. Led customer interviews to gather requirements, summarized customer feedback and presented the final product concept.● Successfully met all schedule and cost commitments for all projects managed.

Waltham, Ma, Us

● Managed 12 engineers in a Systems Engineering group responsible for characterization, product requirement definition, design controls and system verification/validation during product development, from concept to release. Increased the number of projects the group supported by 75% by actively assessing project scope and needs.● Extensive product development experience for research and IVD markets including Real-Time PCR, Sequencing, DNA synthesis, thermal cycler, PCR consumables and reagents, sample prep consumables and reagents, assays (Taqman and others), and application software.● Coached product management and R&D on improving product requirements and specifications for a variety of products. Led the development of the in-house requirements training course.● Recruited and developed high performing employees who have moved to senior positions.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

Developed, implemented and tested software for eCommerce, ERP, and other applications

B.S. Che, Chemical Engineering

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